Newport daily independent., 1919-02-05
TOURNAMENT IN HEALTH
 KNIGHTHOOD.

when Crusades were conducted in the Holy Land, held contests to show which of them had the greatest strength and skill in battle Where a number of combatants took part the contests were called tournaments. With armor on both man and horse the Knights charged on each other with blunted spears, and the one who knocked the other off his horse won. The winners in tournaments were presented with trophies of victory, wreaths or flags.
 Tournaments are now held under the modern Health Crusade, in which school children meet in combat for the honors of health chivalry. A mod Health Crusade is a tournament in winning Knightly rank, in becoming Page, Squire, Knight and Knight Banneret in the minimum time re- quired. It will help keep children strong and skilled for warfare against the diseases that attack them and their fellow countrymen.
 | A National Tournament in Health Knighthood will be conducted for the school children of America beginning 1 February 9, 1919. It will cover fif- teen weeks. The victors are the in- dividuals or classes that earn the most credits in health Knighthood within that time. The trophies for the victors are pennants or banners. They will be presented jointly by the National Tuberculosis Association and the National Bureau of the Ju- nior Red Cross, which will also pub fish the names fthe winners, giving them national publicity.
 l Every class in every school is eli gible to the National Tournament, subject to the official rules and condi- tions. The equipment required will be two of the folders, Record of Health Chores," for each child; wall chart, Roll of Health Knight hood," and Question Sheet for health chores in each class. This ma terial may be secured at extremely moderate price All details and par 1 ticulars will be attended to in a wide l ly inclusive health pamphlet soon to be in the teachers hands.
 The winners in each tournament di- vision will be the class which earns the highest toll credit or score. in the fifteen weeks between February 9 and May 24. The score is determined by adding the total credits of the in dividual pupils and dividing the. sum by the number of pupils enrolled in the week of February.
 The credits of the individual pupils are: For Page 2; for Squire, B; to- taling 5; for Knight, 5, totaling 10; for Knight Banneret, totaling 15. The weeks of performance of health chores required to earn a title and credits need not be consecutive, but no credits will be allowed for titles earned wholly or partially in weeks before or after the fifteen weeks. A child who has acquired title before ] February 9th must begin again to earn the title of Page and the success sive titles Within the fifteen weeks no credit is given for weeks of chore performances not sufficient to earn !, the next highest title for the child. Thus Knight who has done 54 chores per week for only three weeks toward becoming Knight Banneret, when the fifteen weeks terminates, receives no credit beyond that of a Knight in the tournament, even though two more weeks of chores might give him the higher title.
 The following example illustrates the method of computing the score of a class:
 If at the end of fifteen weeks. a class of twenty children has 20 Pages, 15 Squires, 15 Knights and 10 Knights Banneret, the total individu- al credits are: Pages (20 x2) equal 40; Squires (15x3) equals 45; l Knights (15x5) equals 75; Knights Banneret (10x5) equals 50; or 1919 | in all. The class credit is 219 divided by 20, or 10.950. Fifteen is perfect score for class, as also for an indi- | vidual.
 The class report duly made out is to be delivered or mailed before mid night of Saturday, June ', 1919 (two weeks after the close of the tourna- ment), to tthe executive secretary or the health association for the state Tn which the class is located-the record l folders upon which the report IS based being sent with it. The state health association will determine the | a1,oco. ,,, +ba ctafa rnalylnp the llQl-