The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-24
THE TRAINERS CORNER
A Coaun1nof Comment on Sporting and Athletic Men and Events, Physical Culture, Exercise, Health Measures and Body Building.
 (Bv Mac Levy of Bnbylon.)

(MacLaevy, the famous Long Island sshealth farmer has been engaged for eighteen years in the training or athletes and the building up Of run down people. and is a. recognized avT thority on all subjects connected with athletics physical culture. and sc1en- tific exercise.J
 Events of the last few weeks have proved conclusfvely that the world has not yet reached a point where physical training can safely be sub ordinate to intellectual education.
 The natian which pays the most sst- tenfien to the development of the strength and physical prewress and, bodily endurance of it's citizens is now, as always. the nation that as ntfest
 If IS true that brain as well as brawn plays an important part in modern warfare but 1t Is equally true that the coprtry which has developed the intslleets of its men. to the ex- clusfon of physical trainings Is deemed to extinctien.
 To the physical culturist war is a hatef91 thing, and ought to be abol- ished, but what ought to be and what is are as far apart as ever.
 The sound, trained body and the sane. educated mind has always been the ideal, and the natien whose eiti- zens xnost nearly approach to this ideal will always be the victor in both peace ana war.
 The Persian empire was built on the ruins Of decadent ktngdorns by strong. hardy, virile men who esI- tended its borders wider than any before established in the world. Then luxury and vice and idlenegs took pos session of the people, and all their millions were futile to effect the con- quest of the athletic Greeks.
 Greek education, in the days o9 the glory of Greece, was based on the maxim Of Aristofles whoa said:
 sfF1rsE in education comes gym nastics; and this should make men athletes. and is not intended to de- veIop mere brute strength. Gynnas- tics produce courage which is a s means between the unbridled4 license of the animal and the slugg1shness of the coward.''s
 The little army of Alexander, com posed Of men who were trained in all the. arts of the gynn asiufn, swept like a, devastating sfane ovsr the Per sian empire. The fabby-musc1ed mol lycoddies of Asia were speedily re- duced to the status of subject race.
 When the Greeks ceased to encour- age these sports and games which he'd devsloped such vigorous manhood. they were easy victims for the train ed men of Rome; and when Rome, too, became decadent, history repeat ed ifsezf, and the barbartan hordss of theN north. composed Of men who spent their lives in the open and who were thus a staAwart, hardy people, found the Romans easy prey.
 Despite the great Improvement in the snachinery of destruction. victory still nerekes on the banner Of that na.tfen whose men have the most en- dt1rances the most haraihood, the sreA4est physical courage
 4 good big man can whip a good little. man. just as Great Britain whipped the Boers. but a. good little man can whip q f1abby big man, as Japan whipped Russia
 A few nnonthsago mostsof us locked upon a great European war as a sheer inpossdbi1ftv. Hetstns siz1zpoasdble hap pened.
 Doune1naw tlse future holds man.