The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-08-25
MODERN LIFE
RUINS BODIES
OF CHILDREN
DR.. Ellis Calls Upon Teachers
to Check the Pace That
Wrecks Physique of HUI
man Race.

IF nervous mothers keep on. send
Ing nervous children to school, we
will finally have to turn our high
schools into sanitaria and our gym
nasia into rest cures. When the
archeologist of the future digs down
to the buried remains of the twentieth
century, about all he will find will be
timetable and a bottle OF nerve
medicine. We American people have
set up a pace we cannot possibly hold
to and it is time the American school
teacher. was realizing this and endeav-
oring to stem this tide that is under
mining the physique of our boys and
girls"
This was the warning held out by
DR.. Charles Calvert Ellis in his adj
dress at the chautauqua yesterday
afternoon on the business of the pub
lie schools. He emphasized the fact
that the school must educate the whole
boy and the whole girl and that means
that the body must receive it's share
of attention.
I'VE are doing all we can to make
physical wrecks of the boys and girls
that come to school and it is time we
had recognized the necessity of con-
serving physical life and we must do
this in the face of opposition, not only
from the parents of the boys and girls,
but from the boys and girls them
selves.
Must Build Bodies.
"You parents ought to know that it
is impossible for school teacher to
cultivate the brains of your children
if you do not keep those brains prop
erly nourished. A boy will make a
hurried breakfast of fried mush and
coffe, he will have couple of dough
nuts for tea and piece of toast and
some tea for supper; how do you ex-
pect school teacher to make any
thing out of that? If you want us
school teachers to turn your boys and
girls out really educated, you must
keep up your end of the bargain by
seeing to it that their bodies are prop
erly nourished. The body is the basis
of all the splendid things that the
mind can do and if we don't have
strong, healthy bodies, we cannot have
we'll trained and vigorous intellects.
But of course, the school must do
more than train the intellect. 1t must
widen a child's horizon. 1t must en-
large his experiences.
This means that the educated
child is going to have a we'll develop.
Gu HUI dl Cudl dCICA. OOAAC SOAAC6S
presidents take the position that it
is their business only to teach the
child while he is in the class room
The better class of college presidents.
like General Robert E. Lee, look upon
character and department as being
quite as essential to sound educa
ton as mental training.
Needs Cooperation.
"This means that the teacher must
think of the school as social organ
ism amenable to suggestion and
leadership. This means that the
teacher must recognize that the school
links up with the community and that
education is a business which con
Germs all the members of the com
munity. A teacher can no more carry
on the whole work of educating the
boys and girls than can the physician
carry on the whole work of keeping
people healthy.
"The teacher and the parents must
stand together The home and the
school must work together. They
must think together. In other words
they must cooperate"