Show Hiking Is Not Lost Art Many lanY People Average More Than Five Miles aga a Day Y Hiking for health and pleasure is not a lost American habit It persists in spite of what many be be- lieve There are those who decry the automobile as being responsible for the publics public's lack of interest in inthis inthis inthis this most healthful exercise They say where once we would walk a dozen blocks to keep an appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment we now hop into a cab Instead Instead Instead In In- stead of walking two or three miles to work in the morning we grab the nearest bus Yet with all this pessimism writes Albert Stoll Jr in the Detroit News the American public is just justas as much a race of walkers as it was in the days of Old Dobbin Although Although Although Al Al- though the automobile has changed the walking habits of many it has not brought any change in the daily footsteps of a multitude of work work- ers The plowman behind his team still walks many miles a day The postman Contributes his 10 miles The patrolman night watchman surveyor and school children still add up their daily foot mileage And what of the golfer who docs does at least eight miles over 18 holes the comi com com- i muter and suburbanite who walks an equal distance cutting the lawn I hoeing the garden or exploring the adjacent subdivisions or woodlots or the bill collector messenger messenger floorwalker and conductor on a lo local local local lo- lo cal railroad train Surely their average average average av av- av- av must be well over five miles milesa I a day and this is all any physician would recommend as a health build build- er I is not a lost art It ItI I persists in every walk walle of life in I spite of the comforts and arid conveniences conven conven- I the automobile has brought |