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Show SAYS MOTORING 15 THE BEST EXERCISE Physician Sets Out Value as Substitute for Taking Medicine. That motoring is probably the finest form of exercise for the average man and woman of today, is a somewhat startling hypothesis. Most of us do not consider t he driving of a motor car in the light of exercise at all. In fact one frequently hears regret 'expressed that the general use of motor vehicles has interfered with habits of exercise that are important to our national well-being. well-being. Dr. Henry Smith Williams, the well known writer on scientific subjects, in the July issue of MoToR, takes exception excep-tion to this view of motor car driving, and shows that instead of being deleterious dele-terious in its effect, it is positively beneficial. He classifies its benefits under thre heads, physical, mental and what he terms volitional. "It is the muscles of the arms, 'together 'to-gether with those of the chest and abdomen ab-domen that preeminently and habitually habit-ually suffer. Here we find undevelop-ment, undevelop-ment, softness, flabbiness and the accumulation ac-cumulation of unwholesome fat. And it is precisely ,herc that the steering : wheel of the car may come to the res- , cue. It is true that the handling of 1 this wheel, particularly if the car is j small, is not a very strenuous form of exercise; but that, instead of being a i defect, is an essential merit. It is -not desirable that the little muscles should : be called upon to make a powerful effort. Their best interests are met bv precisely pre-cisely the kind of efforts that the stcer-inu stcer-inu wheel, supplemented by the handling of the p;ear and brake levers, calls for. namely, mild but persistent action, which involves, first and last, praeti-ealv praeti-ealv all the muscles of the arms, chest anil abdomen. ''When you drive a ear forty or fit'tv miles over average American roads or a fraction of that distance in the eitv. you fjive your arms and torso a course of purposeful calisthenics that redounds directly to the benefit of your muse Us and arteries and heart and indirect 1 v, but no less significantly, to the benefit of your digestive apparatus and organs of elimination biood and nervous system. ' ' Dr. Williams proceeds to point out that in addition to the exercise, the motorist mo-torist has been in the open air. buffet-in buffet-in the winds, inhaling ample quantities of oxygen to meet the increased needs ot the accelerated currents of blond corpuscles; cor-puscles; and that digestion and assimilation assimi-lation are thereby facilitated and tip1 ! toxic products accumulated through for-! for-! mer inaction prorrssi vely a re iu in-' in-' creased measure oxidized and eliuiinared. ; The article is extremely interest i n '. and will furnir-h one more unanswerable argument, if such wer. umded. for the viersal use of motor'-.-ars. |