The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-10

MUAIAdy Ab0o "
 be prepared. The presidential "soup bone" has to be warmed up in order to be in condition to throw out the first ball at the opening of the American League season in Washington. MT. Roose- welt is going to need all the strength of mind and body he ac- quired on the yacht Potomac. He reports having had pretty good luck with the sail fish but all the time he was away bad news was reaching him over the air. The Georgia tornado tragedy, the T. w. A. plane crash in Uniontown, Pa, the stories of poison gas at tacks in Ethiopia must have all contributed to disturb what would otherwise have been @ happy holiday. There were compensa- tions however, quite apart from the good sport had with rod and reel. MT. Hoover turned loose arl- other blast which cannot help but be beneficial to the Presidents chances in November; there is the mystery fish" which weighs thirty pounds and which goes to the Smithsonian Institute for ex- animation as to its exact genius; and last but not least the "Poto- mac" managed to avoid the hur- ricanes predicted for three days for the Gulf of Mexico. The pis- catorial experts at the Smith, sonian will probably report that the fish, frozen in 8 cake Of ice for preservation on the voyage from Nassau, is nothing but du- Pont Liberty League orator caught out of his depth. But it might have been just as well had the Potomac" steered directly into the hurricane area. It would have been good experience for the President in. view of the cyclone which struck him at noon Wednesday across the luncheon table of the New York Board Of Trade. The cyclone was under tho personal direction of that in- tellectual, political, philosophical, medical, a1l-around scientific giant, MT. Bernarr Macfadden.
 Not the Same Man
 It should be stated at once that Mir. Macfadden is not McFadden of the Flats. That roaring comic creation spelled his name with the usual Irish "Mc". Bernarr goes in for the Scotchier Mac. There are other differences also. Ber- narr burst on 8 startled world as the preacher of new health gos- pei many years ago and made countless converts. The gospel laid down simple but somewhat rigorous rules of life. I don't re- call all of them but stretching ex- ercises, cold baths, wide-open wir- dows in sleeping quarters regard less of weather conditions, vege- table diets, going without hats, and abstinence from all forms Of nicotine and alcohol were guar anteed to make old men of sixty into larksone lads of twenty in ten lessons; to reduce the waist while widening the shoulders in ten additional lessons; and, in practically no time at all, to make runts and rnorons into nnarvels of bodily perfection, beauty, brains, and irresistible sex appeal. There were, naturally some financial conventions connected with the Macfadden apostolate to make America uscle-conscious but they were so trining that none but the most miserly could refuse to observe them. Especially in view of the benefits to be secured by all and sundry. And were there benefits!l!l
 Everybody Happy
 Husky young men who could neither be bribed nor beaten into lugging in Q bod of coal for moth- CTS kitchen stove followed the Macfadden system of exercise 50 devotedly that they had no strength left to do anything but throw out their chests or dash of to the nearest photograph gallery to have pictures of their backs taken. Healthy young women who had deliberately trained their optics so that the family dishpan, broom, and mop were altogether invisible became 50 interested in rolling their eyes Macfadden-wiSe to strengthen the muscles that