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For the middle-aged man (or woman) who wants to keep fit...

EXERCISE? You really don't need it

EOPLE who spend their gram: by the ******............

office chairs do not usually .......................... DOCTOR ...............199402? regard their occupation as

hour, or plays a game of squash merely because JIC thinks it will do in good und Fot breate he enjoys it, is usually wasting his time, and „malldy overfaxing his heart If he is not in good physical eondition.

dangerous to health. The to short and solemnly Roes fear that troubles', most of through his exercises for half them is the fear of putting on weight and for this rea- son they tend to think more or less constantly that they -au;hb-{alke mc. Xt Now putting on weight is, in fact, the OC- cupational disease of the office-workers.

cise.

For obvious reasons this is Tint as prevalent in other countries as in the U.SA.. where

a

n recent health survey

There are tome men, and pre- sumably ulso women, whose bodies are naturally adopted to athleticism and who remain wonderfully fit all their lives,

Such a man wHE described of lng ako in The Lancet, In in large business organization his early years he was a long- revented the distressing fact

distance evelist, breaking that 127 out of 718 executives

records at the age of 18 for Were

loo fal-ap obaormality

bleyete and tricycle rides from twice JIN common as all the fund's End to John o' Groats. rest put together,

If died at the age of 78 andl up to the Time of his death due to a rapidly fatal disease which could have huch

pssible connection with bis mile of life, he remained an outstand- in

performer st ericket, berley, swimuning and lawn tennis.

Thin live longer

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terms

American insurance com- panies are not afraid of alarm ing their customers by pointing but in most emphatic Flut thin people live longe than fat, anch conserpuently many a bulky middle-aged business man has felt the need for a "work-out” once or twice a week in the local gymnasium.

movies from Hollywood this winn's weight, just under unaltered to igo by, big 1 stores, remained

often during the whole of his adult

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iis heart and blood vessels were remarkably healthy, und showed no sign of any past strain.

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endeavours

pummel away

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the massive rolts If sub- Such exceptional, people can cutaneous tissue beneath fingers.

ls enjoy

vigorous exercise even in old age. Many of us, how- ever, must accept the limita- tions forced un 1 by the flabbing of the heart muscle which

often accompanies the expanding waistline of middle age.

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Enthusiasts for the vuline "work-nut" will have been dis- appointed to read a report, just jesuer! by the University of Mimesata, Bhat middle-aged. business men who like regila: #streise are no healthier than This is not to say that men their more sedentary colleagues, or women in this category As a matter of fact, this only should become wholly sede

already tary. In fact that would be a disaster, for it is by walking und moving around that the brain-worker keeps his circula-

confirms what fairly well known.

Was

Wasting his time

Lon of the life histories

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1951.

GILES TOUR OF BRITAIN

FiLas

"Miners get everything these days, pli-head baths, race horses for-pit- ponies, bulletins on Rita Hayworth down

at coal-face....."

W

-(London Exprène Service.)

Why Franco puts

with the

By

CHARLES FOLEY

up

rebels

after He was more alarmed still has when word reached him that

Like Mussolini "Hungry Indeed! You've

France. obulously just been taken in Abyssinia, by lying. foreign propa- broken the democratic effort such questions as the high

ganda...."

to outlaw him. Madrid has cost of living had joined seen a weekly procession-of ecclesiastical subjects of dis- London, May 23. ambassadors and Ministers cussion. HAT is General driving through the streets Franco doing? to present the discomfited

After seven days of secret Why is he allow- homage of their countries "talks the Primate of Spain, ing the situation on returning to their posts. Cardinal Play Denniel, took in Spain to get out of hand?"

the judgment, of And at this very moment Why does he not act to put

to Madrid. to an end to the strikes and when the world bows demonstrations which are their dictator, the He told Franco that the unheard of in a totalitarian Spaniards,

hitherto sub- Church is concerned at the servient, thumb their noses deepening economic crisis in State?

Spain: the misery of the

Yesterday's impudent dis tion in reasonably good candl-play in Madrid follows dis- Sume years ago an investiga- tion. In activity the muscles orders in Barcelona, Bilbao,

of themselves help to force the 36.269 craduates from 10 blood back to the heart and San Sebastian, Vitoria, and universities in the U.S.A. Jungs. The circulation of a Pamplona, all in the last showed ( that men egsed completely motionless person few weeks." we piblotes had a very slightly worki tend shorter exprelation of life than The average; and (1) Mal the

inest studious had a decidedly better expectation of lio than the average.

That old maxim, "A little of what Excel,"

You fancy does you applies just as aptly to exercise as to food. But the sniddle-aged man who gets in-

stagnant ditch, But

as

to become 113 undrained

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To those of us who have taken Franco's iron rule for for the middle-aged granted during the past office worker who is not over-dozen years it is all the weight there is no particular more astonishing that this necessity

upset should come at # taking exercise,

time when he has just scored his greatest triumph.

to

trouble about

(World Copyright Reserved London Express Scrilce.)

at him.

The hard facts that ex- plain this perverse situation are three: (1) The State is bankrupt. (2) There is no more hope of unconditional American help on the vast scale needed. (3) Franco's chief allies, the Church, the Army-und-Big-Business, have withdrawn or are with- drawing their-support.

Secret history

FROM sources in London

and the Vatican, which are

Half the people in your closely linked with Spain, I

dreams

Doelmut the

O you often dream about

office? The factory? Or the kitchen? You are exceptional if you do.

The results of the first scientific inquiry ever made

are strangers

CHAPM

NCH ER COLD IN

That advice is the outcome of three years of experiment, car ried out at Cambridge Univer sity, to discover how the human cupacity for work alters with oge.

have pieced together the secret history of the crisis.

It tells plainly that the reason Franco cannot hit back is that he is under fire now, not from his enemies but from his former friends. First, the Church, General

The tests, which were care Franco restored the power fully devised to eliminate any advantage from past experience, of the Catholic Church in to discover what normal Three main characters, in- showed that, except in jobs Spain. But lately the Church

where speed is up

all-important, has begun to use her free oldsters are generally more eff-dom in a way Franco did not They show that the daily dream out of every seven the cient than men and women un- dream of.

cast, In. олс

people dreami about were cluding the dreamer, make published the other day, the commonest

sleeper plays a solo perfor- der 30,

mance.

Toledo

"Everybody makes mistukes when young. Juan-so there was no need to spread around that story about when saved Franco's 'itfe in the Civil War....

people, he said, was driving them into "material.de trends of thought."

we never to see justice this side of heaven? We are ruled

whom by a band of men pride and greed have turn- ed into wild beasts."

Second, the army. Loyalty has Frenco generals have become so cracked on the top levels-Some rich that they are opposed to any change; others demand that Franco should step down.

No one called

Two armoured brigades arc Two

posted half an hour from Maxirid, at Aranjuez. But when Franco went to Aranjuez the other day to address Falange cadets neither the commanding general nor any of his staff called to pay respects to, tho generalissimo.

Last week a group of angry offers called on the G. O, C. Madrid, General Munoz Gran- des, who led the famous "Blue Division against Russia.

They told him it was impossible to feed their men on the ofetal allowance of a shilling a day without selling peirol for bread and meal.

The black market had become part of army life spreading cor- ruption in all directions.

Third, industry. Franco Spain is a paradise for tax-free pro- flears, but a nightmare for the business man; because of the stranglehold of on corrupt bureaucracy.

Ice and

Inflation is roaring. Ministries cannot meet their bills. The Ministry of Public Works owes £120,000,000 to contractors. The State railways are two years behind in their payments.

'Utopian'

Le last low weeks Senor

And then the cardinal, a

ONDON bankers say that in

Franco the rough side of his has been called in three times vigorous Catalon,

gave Larrax, Spain's No. 1 economist, tongue. He said Franco must by France but his advice- stop squandering money on cutting of wasteful expenditure

by millions, the complete peop porting food needed, by the and the rendering of a luxuries, he must stop ex-ganisation of several Ministries true Budget-Is considered round rarely

people; in fact, an early

wildly intrudes into

Utopian.. the plot or the setting of our

People in their 20's set too It started with the calling change of Government was dreams.

Bitter blow to romantic girls great store by speed. In their of the Catholic Council of essential.

How, then, la Franco coping Is Hall's discovery that the aver- 30's they still try to work ая

with the crisis? He is dashing Toledo. Detalled descriptions of 10,000

male dreams much more fast as they used to, and ac-

new voice of the about in his bullet-proof car,

dreams were provided by men

about curacy suffers as a consequence. This Council has been Church WAS soon heard making speeches. about Spain, "the bricaguered fortress whose and women aged 10 to 80. Dreary

wisely suit their speed of work- summoned at several turn throughout the land. Boldest gates we must hold against all ..chores, ke typing, darning,

cooking, and washing dishes, continued at Western Reserve unconsciously

The survey, which is being ing to their temperament and ing points in Spanish his- of Franco's pulpit critics is a aftaaks."

compensate for tory, and Spain's rulers have Carmelite monk, Father were hardly ever mentioned. University, U.S., showed that their slowness by increased pc stood for 1,500 years

But the siego has lastad 100 in Feliciano, who delivers flam- long. The smell of defeat Ja Ve show our aversion to one dream in every three seems curacy.

ing sermons in the Church in the air: A series of murinies work in our dreams," reports to be "seen" in colour,

of St. Teresa in Madrid,

has gone unpunished. Professor Calvin Hall, the psy- chologist who organised the in-

And news has got around that quiry.

age

about other

women.

men than

PAINSTAKING

After they reach

40 they

Dr A. T. .Welford, who organised the experiments for the Numeld Research Unit on IF you want a job done Ageing, has checked his labor But his Andings contradict the thoroughly and accurately, tory findings against belief that, because dreams are get a middle-aged or elderly done on the factory bench.

-(London Express Service.)

so divorced from reality, they person to do it.

usually have an exotic setting and Involve exciting people.

Most dreams are set in un- romantic everyday bulldings — most commonly the living-room or bedroom of a 'house, the re- port states. And the Intriguing personalities we would all like to meet turn up only onco in 100.

Walking, running, and dans. eing are the commonest actl- vliies. We rarely, "all in our dreams. Flying and floating in the air are even rarer events, saya Hall.

"The" oddest, finding,, in my view, in the fact that 43 per cont of the characters-playing - the principal parts in our dreams 'stem toʻbe total stranEOTE,

NANCY

Ile's Not Backward ·

|I THOUGHT OF SOME

WORDS THAT SPELL THE SAME THING BACKWARD, AND

FORWARD

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dread of its decisions,

Tho

Franco Was therefore anxious when for the first A Spaniard who forced his the only impediment to peace is time for half a century way into the crowded con- the person of the commander. priests from all over Spain gregation told me he heard himself. began to gather at Toledo. Father Feliciano cry: "Are

CAN YOU THINK

OF ANY ?

By Ernie Bushmiller

WOW

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