Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-02

New York, May al like people
with healthy minds. DR.. Logan Glen
dening, the health columnist and au-
thor of 1.-THE Human Body" and 1.-THE
Care and Feeding Of Adults" has that
, sort of mind, which is rarer than YOU
might think.
He does not fall for baloney; fads
and milleniums leave him cold. And SO
seek his society as avidly as seek
the door when young ladies with thin
lips and icy eyes begin to carry on
about the evils and injustices Of an
imperfect world.
He IS a vast man with red checks
and thick curly hair. Observing him
you reflect that he could probably do
damage to walloping steak, with a
side order of hashedbrown potatoes.
It so happened that I first saw him
in the flesh Immediately after he had
written an article for a popular mag
azine entitled, How to Reduce" His
system, I decided sadly, must be as
fallacious as all the rest, or else he
had never tried it on himself But
then I went home and read the article.
The gist Of it was that plumpness
is, for the most part, ordained by God
and Mendel and there is no use and
some danger in dosing and worrying
and starving yourself about it. Eat,
stay fat and be happy. That was his
message.
And there is the sort of physician
I like. He adduces sound scientific
reasons for doing what you have Sc
cretly made up your mind to do any
how.
But Logan Clendening, who writes
better than any medico since Somer-
set Vaughan forsook his prescription
| tablet, is more than a conscientious
Hippocrates toiling to keep men from
paying the penalty for their sins. He
is, in his way, a philosopher full OF
VISIONS as salubrious to the Ameri-
can soul as any Ed Howe or the late
| Finley Peter Dunno ever loosed.
To use his own phrase, he is tough
minded. He believes that the habits
| and usages of the society into which
we are born are the result of many
centuries of the trial and error. He
doubts that the Utopians could do a
better job overnight. He sees much
unhappiness around him, but he is
skeptical of the merits of panaceas
| He is the despair of the World Saw
| ers and Quick-Change Artists of the
! Millennium, because they cannot trans
fix him with the label of reactionary
/ 1t won't stick. If he is a relic of the
horse-and-buggy days it is only be-
cause he differs in knowing which
comes first, the horse or the buggy
Thus this articulate physician with
the tough mind does his patients Coz
I should say his readers, of whom
| there are sevel million) more good
than all the psychiarists and Freudian
Doggy men of the land put together
He reaches them, too, almost unaware
They come to him seeking to find out
what is wrong with their lives and be-
] fore they know it he has injected a
testtube full of sound, mellow. com.
mon sense.
| I chatted with him for an hour dur
| ing the recent Publishers Convention
here. He gave me an item for the
column-to wit, that there is a bar
tender in the Ritz who looks more like
H. l.. Mencken than Mencken does
himself-and went on to reveal that
he might be interested in touring the
various night bisttrots, cabarets anG
hoopla emporia of the town. Sedate
| ly, of course, with his wife, and as an
| observer with the clinical attitude.
volunteered as guide. We set &
J tentative date. But next morning he
sent me a copy of his newest book