Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-15
Of
COUN TY IN
SESSION
TO-DAY
Jay B. Nash, director Physi-
cal Playground Work at
Oakland, Delivers Address
in Central Hi Auditorium

The Imperial County Teachers
Institute opened tkis-morning at
the Central Union high school for
the annual three days program.
The convention was called TO
order at $3.50 with n few fitting
remarks from County Superin,
tendent A. p. Shibley, in which he
announced the brief outline of the
work during the past year, and
the program to be followed for a
successful year after the holidays.
b. f. Enyeart lead the teachers in
several songs.
Community singing was followed
by the announcement of the commit
tees on resolutions, revisions in the
constitution of the c. T. A. S. S., the
nominating committee and othed COM
mittees on special features. -
Supt. A. P. Shibley, in few re-
marks introduced the speaker of the
morning, Jay B. Nash, director of phy-
sical education and playground work
of Oakland. Mr.. Nash spoke on place
OF Play and Physical Education in the
Educational Program
He said, "The value of school ed
ucation can be divided upder four
heads, first; Values" and in explana
tion he said, "a child is taught to
weigh the value of the opportunity
before him, to separate the big from
the little, and the important from the
unimportant.
Secondly, it teaches motive, to do
deed because its right and not be-
,1cn .I. H. Il, l
to do it.
Thirdly, it teaches organization.
The children are allowed to combine
into forms of clubs and take steps
along those lines. And, lastly, the
child's own initiative is developed. He
is fought to do things on his own la
bility."
Need Amusement
Mr.. Nash brought into his speech
the need of reaching all the people,
and along that line, he said, with
the passing of the saloon other forms
OF amusement must be brought to the
people. | once shocked Sunday
school convention by stating 25 WAYS
IN which the saloon was a help to the
community" he said, "amcng them, it
offers resting place where man
may sit for few minutes, it gives a
cheap lunch, cheap music, cheap as it
is, but music, nevertheless, and many
other things have come from the sa
Icon, and with the passing of it a suit
able substitute must be found. As vet
this problem can be solved through the
schools, the logic place where it must
be solved"
"Only 10 per cent of the school
children are beirg rcacher by the
play work." said Mr. Nash, speaking
OF the playground work of the schools
while the California Fairgrounds are
recognized as the best in the country
they are far from being sufficient to
care for all the children. They must
be regulated so as to reach all the
children He brought much laughter
from his audience when he pictured
the teacher, opening the windows and
asking all the class to take long
deep breath, closing the windows
again with, ''Tnat will be enough ex-
ercise for today"
Taught Games
"Among the many things to be un-
dertaken by the schools this year." he
said, "are the teaching of hundreds of
games to the students. Games that
the children will enjoy and also eXer-
else them to the extent they need. A
vote taken in many of the classes of
the fourth and fifth grades. show that
the games now played by the children
are "House," "Jacks" "Hop Sotch" and
"Jump Rope" and none of them add TO
the body building of the coming gener-
alton. But if we are to eliminate these
games, we must substitute others
and that is the work to he undertaken
during the coming year."
This afternoon at the Wilson school
a personal demonstration was given
by Mr.. Nash and some of the children
of the fourth grade, proving many of