Published February 28, 1963
“Hiking may have been Theodore Roosevelt’s cup of tea and perhaps the New Frontier’s barometer for a good Marine, but many footsore Americans are not convinced that it is such a ‘healthy’ idea,” so said a recent U-P report. It’s difficult to say where all this walking stuff to prove physical fitness, or to improve it, will lead to. Someone mentioned that it could put the cart-riding golfers back on their feet, or even relieve mothers of their present-day role of chauffeur for the kids. Yes, people might even start walking to church, to the homes of neighbors or to the corner grocery or drug store. Folks might even start forsaking elevators to go up one floor, and maybe they might take a stroll in the park just for recreation. Anyway the silly idea of starting out to walk a distance of 50 miles in twenty hours has brought folks down to earth, and we hear less about that trip to the moon. “I Like Hike” is the latest gag for the hiking craze.