Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26

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1 HOword Whitmon examines the
| incoming Of success in our time.
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rubber band which sooner or
later must break.
It Is doubtful whether the
physical work they do is of great
consequence; men who work from
dawn to dusk in mines and fac
tories and in the sun-baked fields
come home hale and hearty to
spend a quiet relaxing evening
and recuperate, while men whose
physical exertion is confined to-
swinging to and fro in q swivel
chair and making left or right
ljabs to the nearest telephone
often come home totally ex-
hausted, unable either to rest or
recuperate because Of the brief
case full of worries they have
brought home with them.
| False Assumption
Occasionally one reads Of the
busy man of affairs going out to
play golf and dropping dead on
the golf course. Some people
conclude, logically they think,
that golf is too strenuous for
middle-aged men. Yet this is
hardly ever the case. Golf is a
mild relaxing game and involves
hardly more strain than a quiet
afternoons walk.
| The strain comes from the un-
seen members of the foursome:
worry. aggravation, inner ten
sion. When these come along on
the golf game. it is hardly a
game at all but rather a Cruel
ing form of ambulatory torture
And so a man dies on the golf
course much as he would die
in his own bed, from enemies
within the gates and not out
side.
PHYSICAL exertion, true, can
send 1t skyrocketing much more
dangerously.
DR.. John c. Whitehorn of
Johns Hopkins conducted series
OF tests with the cardiochrono-
graph to learn just how the heart
rate reacted to emotional ten
sion. Typical of his findings was
TINS: one man who had a heart
rate under normal circumstances
OF seventy-eight was intention
ally made angry by a series of
irritating questions. He showed
little change in his outward
Idemeanor but the cardiochrono-
graph recorded a squirt in his
heart rate to ninety-eight. and
it held that rate for Is seconds
while he remained inwardly
veXed.
Twice as Common
IL is significant that coronary
disease has been reported twice
as common among bankers and
iaWyers-who work sitting down
AS among farmers and labor
ers. Dr.. H. L. Smith, in a paper
IN the Journal of the American
Medical Association, reported,
The incidence (of coronary
diseased is lowest among those
who do manual labor and high
est among those who do mental
work"
What is the answer to the
human dynamo? How can
some men be spared the agoniz-
ing pursuit of the pine box?
How can they be redirected to-
ward success without suicide?
Essentially such men have a
great deal of mellowing between
them and a mature life. I re-
member my professor of English
at college saying, I'VE will not
have real poets again until poets
once more become philoso-
piers"
Nor will we have mature hui
mans until more men become
philosophers, What they need is
a proper set toward life as a
ship before a spanking breeze
needs proper set to its sails.
! 1t is difficult in a young Gull
ture such as ours to reache such
maturity. but if we take enough
punishment, perhaps reality will
push us toward it. And we may
one day become sufficiently
I philosophic to know that one
must concentrate first on max
ing a life and subordinately
making a living. Making a liv-
ing is but the means; life itself
is the goal.
From the book; Success Is Within
You, Copyright 1855 by Howard Whit
man; Distributed By Doubleday Syn
/ dieate)
Monday: Money Won't Necessarily
Make You Unhappy"