Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1929, Page 19

- HEAVY POLICEMEN BECOMING PASSE New York Officers Follow Whalen Idea of Getting Rid of Fat. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, August G.—'!‘![l'\'!ningl up of discipline and routine exercise are working the surplus poundage off American police forces. New York po- licemen were worried about a rumor that the local department would install “shimmy” machines similar to those now in use in Philadelphia for reducing to normal size the few gargantuan cops who still project over the curb line. They were reassured today with the pews that Commissioner Whalen in- tends to keep them fit by gymnasium and setting-up exercises, but will not | install the electrical wiggling machine unless it becomes absolutely necessary. However, the policemen must watch | their step—and their waistline. The fat cop is becoming passe all| over America. Philadelphia has been the last stronghold of the elephantine policemen. and now the machines— quite different from the late presiden- | tial electric horse, they are—shaking| off the suet in carload lots from the | Philadelphia force, New York Methods. ‘The New York force hes arrived at its lithe and lissome state by less | strenuous but self-imposed methods. A | few years ago the ponderous comic sup- plement cop could be seen here at al- most any street corner. The picture has changed. Only among desk ser- geants nearing superannuation does one find the triple chin and the Zeppelin paunch. Men on the beat are trained down to running and fighting form. | Police commissioners of recent years have seen to that. | ‘The change has been partly due to the increased pressure of departmental discipline, facing obvious requirements for fitness, and (p.m,v owing to chang- | ing conditions of daily and nightly en- counters with gunmen. Gur fighting and automobiles are responsible for | this. The chase now is apt to be a 50- | yard sprint for an automobile, rather | than a dogged pursuit through a city alum. A good cop must be a self- starter, quick on the get-away and the short dash. If he missed the fugitive, the chances are that his prey takes to| an automobile. and the cop must make | 8 quick dive into another car and give | chase. To do all this he must be clos: rigged, and overweight counts heavily against him, It is true, of course, that overweight has always been a drawback in these | days of track meets through crooked atreets and over housetops, but the gen- | eral conditions of the chase have changed. A quick pick-up has become extremely important, along with marks- | manship, as the new and desperate type | of gangster is & gunman, and the in- stant of rough milling is no place for & fat man. Then, again, the big cop| used to have another advantage whicl he does not now enjoy. His bulk was impressive in those innumerable forays of gangland or in saloon brawls where brawn and biceps mixed in handily. But in these shooting days this equip- ment is less important, and the over- | size cop goes the way of the battleship with the arrival of airplanes. Range | and mobility is a priceless asset in the modern city fighting force. | Whalen Is Example. Commissioner Whalen, 6 feet tall and hard as nails, is the symbol and em- bodiment of physical fitness. He has lambasted the rank and file about such gross attributes as untidiness and over- weight, and there is now a premium on hair-trigger condition. In spite of some rather naive performances and statements of police duty, he has won the good graces of the cops by abating the fines previously imposed for slight derelictions of duty. They are snap- })lm{ into his regime handily, and so ar as police discipline is concerned the commissioner has made a good start. | as in the past. | FRANCES SAVAGE LAUDS | one of Germany's leading modernistic Maya Chieftain Flies To Mexican Capital To Visit Portes Gil By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, August 6.— Gen. Francisco May, chief of the Maya tribes in the district of | Santa Cruz de Bravo, Quintana Roo, who cannot speak Spanish and who never before left his native territory, has come to the captial by airplane to inter- view President Portes Gil, on matters of importance to his ple. The general is accompanied by an interpreter. They made the trip by plane from Merida, Yucatan, Jo the city of Vera Cruz in ‘seven hours, a trip which takes five days by boat. The Maya tribes over which Gen., May rules, are supposed to be remnants of the Maya nation which once built great cities in Southern Mexico. Col Lindbergh in a recent flight over Quintana Roo, discovered, from the air, & lost Maya city entirely sur- rounded by jungle. to physical form and fitness are rapidly taking on a West Point appearance. For many years police surgeons have been investigating and working on the problem of overweight in large city police forces. They have made out a strong case for working off the embon- point, but it was not until the general ascendancy of the cult of slenderness aided by the changing conditions of police work that their teaching and preaching began to take. It just hap- pens that along with the 18-day diet | coming out of Hollywood meat dis- tributors say they want only 800-pound steers, instead of 1,200 to 1,400 pounds, And now the cops are getting that way. Fi (Copyright. 1920.) GERMAN SCULPTURE | American Woman Artist Enthusias- tic Over Her Discoveries While Studying in Dusseldorf. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 6.—Frances Savage, New York sculptor, returned | from Germany Sunday night on the liner Muenchen an-enthusiastic discilpe of German sculpture. “The greatest sculpture in the world now is in Germany,” she said. “Even | the worst, of it is not so bad as our | ‘Clvic Virtue.'” Miss Savage studied for six months under Prof. Hans Stangel of Munich, sculptors. She plans to return in the Fall to Dusseldorf, where she will con- tinue her studies. Miss Savage believes American sculp- | ture will rise to the heights the art has | reached in _Germany only when the public is sufficiently educated to appre- ‘ciate and encourage good work. AUTOMOBILE, LIABILITY, FIRE, || BURGLARY AND TORNADO INSURANCE || THOS. E. JARRELL CO. || Realtors | 721 10th St. NNW. National 0765 |/ WATCH AND CLOCK REPAIRING | ClocksCalled For « Deivered - dad GRANDFATLER CLOCRS A Speciall 615-15"™ Stveeb || | National 7280. 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