The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-13
INDINIDUAiiSM.

Education Association Dr. William Y. Foster of Reed College drew at- tention to the manner in which the colleges had failed to meet the needs of the government for trained athletes and minds and bodies dis ciplined by experienced trainers wken they were needed for officers, and thousands were unable to pass the examination.
 He went on to say "A majority of these men had been without incen- lives and equipment for athletic training Statistics furnished the National Collegiate Association by 13A universities and colleges en- gagged in intercollegiate athletics. show that only Y per cent of the total male students participated in the games. and not half the students in these institutions engage in any form of systematic or organized eA' ercise Of these institutions all oG which promote intercollegiate ath- letics, 37 per cent are reported as doing nothing b foster and en- courage the types of physical eXer- else and healthful recreation that d student is likely to use in after col lege life. These colleges spend about sixty times as much money xor each member of an intercollegi- s4tH team as they spend for the s44ues of each of the other stud rc1s"!.
 2t is not to discourse upon college athletics that the matter is here Ie- ferred to. With that really we have nothing whatever to do, but for the sake of pointing out that what takes place in the universities, in the mat ter of athletics is practically identi- cal to what occurs in every other sphere in America.
 In other words in America where individualism has reached the very highest point of it's development, it
 
 sacrificed to the few
 4 young man entering college dis plays a proficiency in certain line of athletic activity. 1 hat is carefully and at considerable expense culti- Vated for the further reputation of 1he college, and iH coNseauence those who show no sUah tenda2cies 10 become adopts in any form Ot atheletics, are allowed to go without a,heIetic training altogether.
 Similarly in the economic world. The many are ruthlessly sacrificed 10 the privileged few. The man with money is given wonderful op- portunities which are denied those who have none of it, and notwith- standing the carefully cultivated poppy cock that every man has as good a chance as another, we all know that he has no such thing.
 Laws as passed by Congress and br state legislatures have been di- rassted towards the maintenance or ts.ls favoritism which has been cal ged special privileges, and under a various system of franchises or leases of concessions the public re- sources have been allowed to lapse into the hands of these favored few, whose enormous possessions have al ready stag gered the imagination |.
 Practically everything is done, through press and through system atically organized publicity, to bring the public to approve this condition, so that a majority may believe that such system is ideal.
 And just as we have in the day Of need the discovery made that very small percentage are athletically grained in the colleges, so through out the nation we can easily see taat a very slender proportion ln- tsxeed are enormously wealthy while the rest are utterly without a com besence, depending for their daily bread upon their daily labor and allowed to take no thought of the Exrorrow for they have no security against unemployment, as over their employment which provides them with the daily bread, they have no 
 This is indiyidualism run riot.