The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-12-14

| Greece, Athens and otner oriental
nations. who could not go about their
daily toll and labor unless they had
access 10 the numerous baths with
which these countries abounded; with
| The result that q people of mag.
| nificent athletic build and proportion
can't 10 the fore, and continued Until
the pernicious' activities OF higher
life were introduced. 3
| There Is no form Of exercise that Is
so conducive TO the physical develop
ment of the body than swimming and
diving, and IL we only looked at 1t
from that standpoint alone, it would
mean a great advance in physical ed
ucation. hut from another point of
view--that of cleanliness where the
daily plunge is called into use, better
health conditions would be recognized,
for as an antiseptic and tonic, the cold
or tepid plunge is well known 10 the
doctor, the scientist and the physical
culturist Then again, the tonic pro-
perties of cold plunge is now being
! recognized in the best of society and
| the greatest of educational institu-
tions. The magnificent office buildings
! of the east, where two or three thou
| sand people are employed is not with
out its company baths, so were people
to indulge in this form of healthful
exercise, winter and summer, the dan.
ger from colds, COMPOSITIONS and pneu.
monia would not be things of dread;
and cough syrups, dopes and mixtures
would stay on the shelves forever.
True, all human nature cannot stand
the cold plunge at first, nor undergo
the cool trickling of the refreshing
shower, because of slow blod reaction,
but a gradual evolution in this d.
, rection would make them just as
strong If followed in homeopathic
doses until they would be so injured
that the danger of slow blood reaction
would be passed. Tepid water is an
other good tonic and for those physic-
ally weak this is the safest way at
first TO proceed, but for those whose
quick active blood is jumping through
their vieins there is nothinxf ~ finer
than the cold plunge.
That the Church Board of Education
has done the proper thing at the pro-
per time, and in the proper place goes
without saying, and as time goes on,
when the bright looks and smiling
rosy faces of the scholars testify of
health and vigor, the originators Of
the move will be hailed as blessed,
and then they will know that the
work has been well done.
Every town should have it's public
| baths, so that it would instil in to the
minds of the people the proper road
to health andSigor.
Then again the introduction of such
manly sports as boxing and wrestling,
is not to be decried. Supercritical leo-
pie should not run away with the
idea that boxing is prize fighting, al
/ though even in prize fighting the
danger to life il not 1.-THE Of what
football under the American rules has
become to be- Nay rather a good sci
entific boxmr bout, where the bio -
leaps through ones veins with yigor
which cries out for mastery; the couD
ter attacks, parry and thrust, is a
pleasure for the manly man or boy to
indulge in. We are too prone to think
evil where no evil is intended The
whole body is brought into play
through the exercise of the manly
art" The back, shoulder biceps, fore
arm and finger muscles are strength
oned; the tendons of the thighs. leg
iud calf are male stronger; the bach
and waist line muscles receiva that
exercise which Is necessary for theii
concerted action. and which in turn
naturally, automatically and other
wise, starts good healthy reaction
in the liver, lungs and kidneys, caus
ing complete toning up of the whole
J system, so that this form of exercise
instead of being tsbooed, should b.
PUSHED along. Then wrestling is an
ether call muscle" form of exercis,
which should receive permanon
! place in the schools.
We congratulate the b. Y. on thi
most valuable phase Of school work
and If it were possible for the goo,
! men and women in this city to b
) granted the privilege of partaking o