Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-02-22
Deep Breathing and Exercise Should
 Be Made Compulsory in'PubIiC Schools


 teacher, every member of the schoo boards. Is there no where to be found an Of influence and means, pos sessed of the knowledge that tubercu losis kills more people than the sword pestilence or famine. Second that nc child was ever born into the world suffering from tuberculosis; and tho third, that compulsory deep breathing in the schools will wipe 'The Great White Plague" of the face of the earth.
 Ut is astonishing in this twentieth century of knowledge, so great, along other lines, that no, popular education has yet grasped the simple, everyday truth that consumption is preventable?
 "The voice of the past was to cure.
 "The divine whispering of today is to prevent.
 The practice, daily, of deep breath ing acquired in childhood, will make every human being, no matter what his tendency or ancestry, proof against the inroads of the bacillis of tuber- culosis.
 There are three methods of breath ing, first chest, second c@tal, third abdominal. Teach children long, deep breathing in as much air as possible, expel slowly, systematically.
 Again Dr. Johnson says: "We know perfectly we'll that tuberculosis is pre- ventable We also know it can be avoided in deep breathing, proper food and exercise. So let your bacilli alone and go after the cause. I believe that deep breathing should be as much part of the curriculum of the schools as reading, writing and arithmetic"
 Affirmations give power to do, and be what you desire. Mold only those of health, if you think disease cons tantlly, your body will respond to the for you can only manifest in your body what you think and feel. The body is obedient to that. A few free-hand eXercises-in connection with deep breathing concentra- ton of that on the parts exercised will do more to make and keep health than the work ordinarily taken in a gymnasium. Drink water, like Jap This is for eliminating effete products from the system.
 When you make exercise and deep breathing a fixed habit the lungs will grow stronger, the chest will be lifted body muscular, complexion will be cleaner, eyes brighter, carriage natur- lily easy and graceful. Deep breath ng is an essential factor in health cul- ure. It tones up relaxed nerves and gives better circulation and luickens all functions. You will live better mentally, morally and physi- ally.
 'Gives years to your life and life to our yearsp
 . We need to recognize with Phillip Brooks that, "The duty of physical 1 lealth and the duty of spiritual purity | md loftiness, are not two duties but | wo parts of one duty, which is the lying of the completest life possible | or man to live.'
 To be sure it takes time to properly ake care of our bodies, but we believe with Gladstone, that "All time and honey spent in understanding and in raining the body, pays larger divi- ends than any other investment" Emerson says: "An irrevocable law f nature requires action for strength, movement for growth, requires unity f movement of all parts for equal trength.'
 Ruskin wrote:
 Better to hunt in fields for health
 unbought,
 han to fee the doctor for naseous
 draught;
 he wise for cure on exercise depend; Iod never made His handiwork for
 men to mend"
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