Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-11-28
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AID TRAINING IN
PUBLICSCHOOL
Reported That Government Con-
templates Vast Physical
Training Plan.
PRELIMINARY 70 MILITARY
Bill Suggested for Improving the
Health and Physique
Of Pupils.
PRELIMINARY 70 MILITARY

Washington, Nov. 2f.-While the,
general staff of the army is WORKING
out a plan of universal military train.
ing for submission to the president
us a part of the permanent army or.
ganization, Secretary of the Interior,
Franklin X. Lane is preparing 10 ask
congress for legislation extending fed.
eral aid to the public schools through.
cut the country for the establishment
of system of physical education are,
training.
At the direction of Secretary Lane,
Commissioner of Education P. p. Clax.
ton has drafted a bill to do for the
school children of the nation what was;
done in Chicago schools by theesele-,
mentary military training, supervised
by Major Steever.
SIC, 1000 900 Appropriation Planned
The bill provides for federal aanpro.
priations aggregating. $40, 000, 900 a year
for the support of the physical training
courses for boys and girls, the govern
ment giving S. for every dollar apmro.
~ y RiiSa NthG lslLG Za-
More fully and thoroughly to pre-
pare the boys and girls of the nation
for the duties and responsibilities of cit,
izenship through the development of
bodily vigor and endurance, muscular
strength and skill, bodily and mental
poise and. such desirable moral and so
ciaf qualities as courage, s%elfcontrol
Decentralization and obedience to an,
thority, cooperation and leadership and
disciplined initiative through adequate
physical examination and the correc-
ton of postural and other remediable
defects; through promotion of hygienic-
school and home life and through sci.
cntific sanitation of school buildings
Fairgrounds and athletic fields.
Preliminary to Military Work
The question of advocating the legis
lation n proposing the adoption of
the plan in the Chicago schools is under
consideration by the Union League club
of Chicago. III. III. Sheets, secretary
of the National Association for Mill.
taIy Training, which, is promoting the
adoption of the plan, has just returned
from a conference with the leagues
political action committee, whose mem
bers include Charles nj. Moderwell
: Walter ID. HerliclS, G.. NJ. Trowbridge
Walter u. MacNeill and Bernard Elex-
ner.
The authors of the plan say it is
not u substitute for military training
with respect to boys, it is preliminary
training. 1t is a program for produc.
ing physically fit men and women by
physically educating boys and girls
during the period of iln1naturity.
Program Outlined
Efficient military training should be
gin not earlier than Is years. If uni
versal military training should be
adopted this program would insure
maximum preparation of Il maximum
number OF young men for military
training. 1t is not exclusively pre-
paratory To military training. 1t is
for both sexes. II is pointed out the
system of physical education would
lPASpSAS 4IdIiSoiS ~ ost ~ ~
following ways: BY selection of boys
for military training; through recuri
rent physical examination during the
growth period; through early detection
and correction Of remediable defects.
BY a graded training in exercises
scientifically selected and administered
to all schildren sof school age; corrective
gymnastics for. special postural and
muscular defects intensive physica1
training for the older boys who a1e
potentially fit Cor military service.
BY training in health habits, instruc
ton in health knowledge, development
Of health ideals leading to i pllysica,
conscience.
BY increasing the physical efficiency
Of those fit for liinited service only; bs
early detection of defects; by s,A~.a'
lied training Of such individuais; b
keeping them out Of inappropriate oc
equations.
Needed i'm Civil Life
What such a program, wisely admin
istered. will do for military efficiency
it will do equally for efficiency I'M al
civil functions, Z says Willard s Small
school hygiene specialist Of the bureau
Of education. VII. do for girl
What Dc VIII rais,
the positive coefficient Of the physica
lie of the nation. It will build no
rality upon the solid foundation
physical soundness and Vitality /
rs wiIIzpe b powerful inlIueaee |,
transformations The democracy y
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