Weekly journal-miner., 1919-11-12
KEEPING FIT IS INTERESTINGLY
 DESCRIBED
CFrom Tuesdays Daily.)

A lecture illustrated by slides and authorized by the United States gov ernment was given the boys of the Prescott High school yesterday after noon by MT. Thomas, acting for the State Board of Health, on Keeping Fit"
 As a result of the first draft in the United States for the great war, with a B per cent quota of unfit men, the public health service realized that something should be done. Accord ingly, the treasury department at Washington co-operated with the health service and the high school boys and older boys are being taught many things that they have hitherto known little about.
 Be Class IA man." says Mr. Thomas. Your body is your life time willing servant. Abuse it-it will be patient, but when it takes re- venge it takes it a thousandfold. Give it a square deal, and it will give you a square deal and more-it will give you back pure blood and strong, skilled muscles and a clear brain for J Oul 4ululC ' ldPPlISoo, y OLl NOuhli . service and the worlds work"
 During the war all the fighting na- tions feared the supreme value of man power. Aside from wounds, the principal cause of physical inefect- ives and rejections were defective eye-sight, poor teeth and bad feet. In warfare false eyesight is almost as bad as blindness.
 What fitness demands is: Muscular strength, endurance, energy, will power, courage and self-control
 The instinct of man makes him want to act, dare, possess, and strive And this instinct when controlled and directed gives energy, endurance and fitness.
 Poor physique should keep no man unfit Reading the sporting page, yelling in the grandstand, and watch ing baseball bulletin boards may be enjoyable but will never make a man vigorous. He must himself take daily exercise. Sweat a little," says Mir. Thomas. Your daily exercise should be vigorous enough to cause you to perspire freely"
 How do you bathe," asks Mir Thomas. "The correct way is warm water for about three minutes. show CT preferred, then cold water without soap for one half minute The bath should be followed by vigorous rub down with a coarse towel, the whole process taking no longer than four or five minutes"
 Fresh air is necessary. This, Mir. Thomas remarks, is plentiful in Pres colt. Thirdly, proper food, and then an average of eight hours sleep.
 Finally, if you gain a maximum ef- fciency and retain it, you are fit and are keeping fit. Hunger and sex are the two great driving forces in the world. The hunger motives have given rise to economic or self-seeking life; the sex or love motives have given rise to the spiritual and social aspects of life, aspects which find their highest satisfaction in the hap pineSs and service of others.
 Quack doctors are warned against ss dangerous and the speaker said, that they make most of their money treating diseases that do not exist. The bureau of education is co-operat- ing with the medical section, national council of defense in the issuing oi pamphlets, letters, slides and motion pictures. As the different societies, Hi Y, Y.MC.A. and others are help ing in this national drive, the Pres colt boys have been urged to send representatives to Phoenix to the Older Boys conference which will be held November 18th, 10th and 30th.
 At present the Prescott boys are separated from the boys of Southern Arizona Tucson, Miami, Clifton, Douglas and the southern towns have the Hi Y. and, according to Mir. Thomas, Prescott in joining the Hi Y. will get on the Southern map"