Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-27
EXPERT SAYS SCHOOL
ATHLETICS BIG FACTOR
IN HAPPY MARRIAGES
DIR. Luther Gulick Tells Mont
gomery County Teachers
Physical Exercise Boon
to Childbirth Rate
MANY REFORMS URGED

NORRISTOwN, Pa, oct. T-"Whfe
I am Of the opinion that no good Of phys
ical character comes through athletics
statistics show that proportionately more
athletes than others are married and
have children" declared Or. Luther
Gulick OF the department OF hygiene Of
the Russell Sage Foundation, before the
Montgomery County Teachers Institute
today.
athletics has taken the place OF de-
bates in the schools, and while I can see
no immediate good coming from it, can
see no immediate harm. II furnishes a
common denominator for educational life,
and in New York has done for the schools
generally what nothing else could have
done"
II. W. Foght, OF the Bureau OF Educa-
tion, of washington told the teachers IN
the rural section of the institute that
there were many things In the present
system of arithmetic that could be elm
mated: things that had been outlived.
He mentioned the apothecary weight
table as one of the useless studies, espe-
cially for the boy on the farm
"The Ellzabethan Period of Adoles-
Post Halleck, formerly of the University
of Kentucky.
After obtaining a list of the high school
teachers who had played basketball WITH
in the last five years. for the purpose OF
holding n spelling contest later IN the
week composed OF these athletes, Proiess-
or Halleck talked for an hour on enthu-
sasm, initiative and self-reliance.
''The chef of the waldorf-Astoria Hotel
in New York gets $4,000 a year." said
Professor Halleck, land he is worth IT.
He takes the same old flour and the same
old eggs every day and changes them
so that you think you are getting some
thing new"
The adolescence age Graves for variety
the speaker said. "There never was an
age like the Elizabethan age, when &C
ton quickly followed ideas. You cannot
succeed unless you are dreamer, but
do not dream unless you act freely. Wha'
you want you want right now. You are
not educating the children for the future
YOU are educating them for the present
You cannot get spiritual results either
with a club. You cannot get self-relance
by talking it, but by acting it."
Professor Halleck, who was for Is years
principal of the High School at Louis
vile, KY, read the code of this school to
the teachers and asked them to adopt it,
as follows:
"Bulldoglshhangonat
ITO stay where you are, you must run
| like everything.
"Iife's fun comes from doing things
hard; working hard while you work, and
playing hard while you play. There is
no Eden for the loafer or the lazy.
"Try to help the other fellow and see
| II you don't feel better and have more
| real enjoyment Remember the philoso-
ply of Mrs. Wigs, who found that a
good thing was never really a good thing
until she had passed it along to some
| body else"
Others who took part in today's pro-
gram were Superintendent f. S. Livy
Principal H. e. James, Miss Ella F. Car
roll, Of Bridgeport; Miss Emma Weber
Of Norristown; Miss Merton Peters, OF
Philadelphia; Miss Hattie VILE, of New
| Hanover; Miss Emma T. Comfy, OF
| Springheld; Wallace S. Brey, of Fred
erick; w. c. Lane. of Norristown; Pro-
fessor c. z. Karlson, of Cheltenham
! Miss Adeline Flack, of Abingdon; T. J.
| Stoltz of West Conshohocken; Miss Olive
| Bond. of Jenkintown; Miss Mary Long
| of Norristown, and Miss Eleanor G.
| Farrell, of West Conshohocken.