HERE and how should I
spend my vacation?
Along about this time of

year a lot of people ask them-
selves this question. Not that
there aren’t enough places to
go to .. . Finances, of course,
have a lot to do with the dif-
ficulty of deciding but even
when you know. what your
budget will allow, there is still
the problem of what is the best

way to get a “good rest” after
the year-long grind.

Some interesting observations
and suggestions on this topic

are made in an article by Pro-~

fessor A. Obrosov, member of

the Soviet academy of medical -

sciences.

Prof. Obrosov first examines
what constitutes “rest.” Work
and rest, he points out, are two
mutually linked aspects of one

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side | by side

J. $. Wallace

If he’s ever informing

Or entertains

You can bet all you like

He has borrowed some brains.

1. If you stand in front of a mirror and look at your
image you will see that it is reversed: right side becoming
left side. Question asked in a quiz program over Moscow
TV: why doesn’t your image get reversed vertically as well
as horizontally so that you stand on your head? Do you
know the answer? (Do I? No columnist can own up to
ignorance.)

2. At the outbreak of the last war, Dr. R. J. Manion
was the Conservative leader. He said something to this
effect: in the last war we poured out money in floods. The
war over, the treasury became a desert instead. of a foun-
tain. When it came to any question of raising the welfare

of the people the answer was: Where’s the money coming *

from? When this present war is over people are not going
to accept that.

I’ve looked in Hansard and newspaper files but can’t
find the quotation. Do you have it by any chance?

3. About that time there was a man named Vergil
Jordan (I think), who was president of the American Bond
Dealers Association (I think). He came straight out to
say that, by the time the war ended, the United States
would have moved in on the British Empire, ousted England,
and moved on . . . has anyone got this one filed away? I'd
like to reprint his exact words to show how accurately he
mapped the future (overlooking a little factor called so-
cialisr.:) .

4. And here is one I asked for in vain. It calls for some-
body with access to Upton Sinclair's Cry For Justice for
old Socialists with memories going back to 1905. Roscoe
Fillmore, perhaps? And . . .?

In the year mentioned, the Hon. Leslie M. Shaw was
Secretary of the Treasury in the first Roosevelt’s cabinet.
Speaking before the Harvard Law Society (safe enough
then, certainly) he foretold that the time was coming when
men by the hundreds of thousands would be turned out of
the factories because the workers were not paid enough to
buy back what they produced, Markets abroad would be
sought to offset that and that soon this would lead to war
because other nations were in the same position.

His forecast came true .. . again and again. The only
thing that stops the third, and perhaps final, war is the
socialist bloc’s growing strength and the efforts of peace
lovers in every country.

Have you the quotation? Yours... not too hopefully.

Just lazing
and loafing?

process — the rhythmic alter-
nating of the periods of work and
rest. This rest, however, should
not be understood as absolute
idleness but rather as a special
form of activity, directed at re-
newing the energy lost during
work. He calls it ‘active rest.”

In the same way, one’s vaca-
tion should not be a period of
idleness. A big mistake is made
by those who, during their va-
cation, as well as after a work-
ing day, lie around uselessly for

_long periods on a sofa or bed.

This, says Prof. Obrosov, is a
very poor form of rest.

Prof. Obrosov considers it im-
perative that vacations should
include not only regular morn-
ing exercises but also long
walks, light forms of sport, ac-
tive games and, where possible,
swimming, rowing, etc.

On hot, sunny days from 8
to 11 a.m.’and on cooler days
from 11 to 1 p.m. one should

be out in the open air and sun

(unless the doctor advises other-
wise). These air and sun baths
should be followed by a luke
warm shower or a brief dip in
a swimming pool or in the lake,
river or sea.

But the first and most impor-
tant requisite of a good rest is
to make a complete break from
one’s usual working and living
conditions. These are in most
cases the primary irritants of
the human nervous system and
infrequently the cause of varied
mental and nervous disorders.

A change of environment, a

temporary trip away from the .
‘place where one lives, a break

from the responsibilities of one’s
job, the necessity to adjust to
new living conditions—all these
have: beneficial effects on one’s
nervous system, subjecting it to
new, different irritants.

If the vacationer abuses his
or her rest, is apathetic or in-
different to bodily exercises,

How should you spend,
your VACATION?

long walks and other physical
activity, and instead spends
most of his or her time just laz-
ing around, playing cards or
chess, overeating and, to top it
all off, doing a lot of drinking
(of alcoholic beverages), the
value of his or her vacation is
almost nil.

A good night’s sleep, a few
deep breaths of fresh morning
air, a few minutes of vigorous
exercise, then a dip in a pool or
lake or a cool shower — what
better way to put one’s self in
good spirits, to get that it’s-

, great-to-be-alive feeling and to

work up a healthy appetite?

Hiking, rowing, canoeing, cyc-
ling, long walks in the country

‘— all these are actually various

forms of “resting” during one’s
vacation. The choice depends on
one’s individual desires, age and,
to some extent, on one’s occu-
pation.

Winter can be no less beauti-
ful, sometimes more so, than
the summer. The stimulating
frosty air and smell of sunlit
fir trees are a perfect setting
for long hikes on skis or snow-
shoes across snow-covered fields.
Skating, toboganning down a
hillside or playing open air
games, or a bit of useful work,
like splitting wood or shovel-
ling a pathway through the
snow, then to come into a warm
room and sit down to a hot
breakfast or dinner — these will
do more to restore your energy
for the year ahead than any
number of hours of loafing.

The main point Prof. Obro-

_sov makes is: it is not so much

where one goes but what one
does during his vacation that is
decisive. You do not have to go
to an expensive resort or even
too far away from home. The
important thing is to make a
complete change from one’s sur-
rounding and daily routine. And
the greater the change, the
better.

AN HOUR’S WORK

I’ve often heard the bosses
say, .
“An hour’s work for an hour’s
pay.”

Now ‘this is quite all right
with me,

For that’s the way it ought
to be.

But the amount of work that
they demand
Is one thing I don’t under-

stand.

It seems each day they want
much more

Than what they did the day
before.

And in their books it is a
crime

For anyone to have spare
time.

And should spare time they
chance to find,
That job will somehow be

“combined.”

They’re always short of help
it seems,

But that’s a part of all their
schemes. i:

They tell us that we have it
“made,”

We're “underworked” and
“overpaid.”

June 25, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBU

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