The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-22
BILL FAVORED OF
 SM|TH--TOWNER
 BY THE PARENTS
Action Taken at Business Meeting Last Night of i, Parent eacher Asso-
 citation of Juneau

A goodsized audience of patrons
 and teachers of the public schools
 was in attendance at the third monih- lv meeting of the Juneau Parent Teacher Association, in the school auditorium Tuesday evening.
 The evenings program was preceded by business session, during which the Association went on record as strongly favoring the Smith-Towner bill now before Congress. This blii provides among other things for the
 creation of Department of Educa- tion. headed by secretary who snail
 be a member of the Presidents Cab inet. It also provides for federal aid in the advancement of education for the purpose of removing much oi the adult illiteracy that now exists
 in the United States; for the raising of teachers salaries to point where they will be more nearly commen- surate with the responsibility of the nrofession and the cost of prepara- | tion for it; and for better educational facilities in rural districts. Dele
 gate George B. Grigsby has been
 urged by the association to do all in his power to secure the enactment of this bill at the present session of Congress.
 The program was opened by pleas ing numbers from the Girls Glee Club under the direction of Miss
 Kelso after which the audience was
 favored with vocal solo by Eldon w Day.
 The topic under discussion for the evening was Recreation" In open
 ing the subject, Rev. George G.
 Bruce first mentioned the meaning
 of the world in it's broadest aspect,
 creating anew" refreshing. He said that if the boy or girl is to De
 well fitted for life there must be a
 balance maintained in the training, the range of which should include
 the whole physical, intellect
 ual social and spiritual With un- balanced development the pupil can not be expected to meet life and | SOING us lIldUt PiODiSliios f> NHS ''N> boy might be rude, a prude or 9 dude, and to avoid this he must be enabled to enter into more than Just 1 one kind of social recreation. know more than just one branch of mind development, understand more thaA the fact that he lives, but what he | lives for and to what place he Is going. He said that idleness is not 9 good for of recreation, but activity along a different line than that in | which one is engaged may become 1 the most wholesome of recreating ol refreshing exercise. Over-indulgence is just as harmful A prlZe-fightei reaches the zenith of his power be fore the age of 40, and lives in the shadows the rest of his life. A strong mind and a weak body oft live nc longer; the neglect of spiritual re creation is alike fatal; but the vel balanced man or woman, the one who recreates his whole being T spiritually, socially, intellectually and physically lives out his three score years duu ttll anu 10 ih A"Ai So, dition to live longer. while always with greater usefulness to God and his fellow men.
 Mrs. Allen Shattuck discussed tho subject from the standpoint of Re creation in the Home" Her ably | written paper contained much food [ for thought on this difficult phase of recreation, and showed that the home. as we'll as the school. has its problems in dealing with this aspect of child's life.
 MT. John E. Lang, in speaking on Recreation in the School, said
 "This subject presents real prob
 lem which must be surely and ade quately solved In the Juneau schools manual training and domestic science
 make up the constructive recreation
 class dnnces and the organized NJ. D.
 c. the social: classes in gymnasium
 where calisthenics. ganfes like basket
 ball. indoor baseball and volley ball
 boxing, Wrestling. running and jump
 ing are taught. provide the physical
 development recreation.
 "The people of Juneau deserve a
 great deal of praise for having gone
 this far in the right direction, yet
 we are not satisfied to let well
 enough alone In larger places the
 Y. M. C. A. provides for much