The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-12-01

| riety OF muscles must dellcately ADAPT
small group of muscles to the par
ticular operation of piece of ma
chinery. In such an organization CT
business and industrial activity, V @
orous out-of-dovr Sports and games
become an imDorta2r compromising
factor, furnishing not only exercise
but also relaxation.
What is physical education? 1t is
apparent from what has gone before
that physical education is not to be
thought of as a bag of gymnastlc
tricks. 1t mast be thought OF from
the point of view of the racially old
forms of big muscle activities
which are natural to any play
space, to the athletic field, to the
swimming pool or the old swimmin'
hole, to the dancing floor, to the gym
nasium with its stunt-stimulating
equipment, to the open country
where, indeed, there is space for any
freedom OF action. 1t involves ,,ot o.
iy play ard gymnastics but also many
forms of work that are wholesome
and developmental. The inherent
value of these activities for the de-
velopment of the fundamental organ
ic, pervous, emotional, and intellec-
tual powers and the moral and hy-
gienic responsibility for the leader
ship of them make physical education
the foundation upon which all the
rest of education must be built as a
superstructure. 1t becomes four
fold program: (D Of big muscle ac-
tivities;' (2) of character training;
81 of teaching efficient living
(health); az of control Of growth
conditions and handicaps..
Fairgrounds
Fairgrounds in every commun-
typ
Ralph Waldo Emerson used to be
quoted on a great many subjects
and Wit: as much respect IS we now
quote Charlie Chaplin or miss Am
erica" In one of his essays he says:
"You send your child to the school
master, but It's the schoolboys who
educate him." Ard where do the
schoolboys educate hin-educate
each other? In the schoolroom? BY
no means! On the piayground-if
our greed permits our civic con-
science to provide Fairgrounds ;other
wise on the streets, in the alleys, and
wherever two CT three'may be gath
cred together. The kind of educa-
ton they give one another depends
l..gely upon the character of the
gathering places. In Fairgrounds IN
der wise adalt leadership the boy-by-
boy education Will be constructive in
many ways; on the street and in the
alley it may be anything.
But it is not enough that there be
backgrounds in every community" "
They must be part of the school
equipment. Isolated Fairgrounds
for school children are a misft. The
children are required By law to be at
school large part of.the year; they
are required by law in many states to
have physical training activities; and
they play before school, at noon, at
recess, and frequently after school.
For these activities, Fairgrounds,
equipment, and leadership must be
supplies. The school must rep
resent society's organized opportun-
tiles for the children to get education
through essential activities which can
not be organized by the home" A
school without a playground may be
an intellectual sweat shop or may be
an intellectual delicatessen shop; it
can not be real educational work
shop. Jack Belden, out of his boy
wisdom, explains the matter thus in a
letter to his cousin jim:
eve got an athaletic club in our
SCHOOL, We fellows on the baseball
team helped Miss Bell start it. She
gave US a privut talk after school
one day and she said something like it
was easy for fellows who can lick
other fellows and get on teams to
have fun and everything but it was
sort of rough on the guys who can't,
and then there are the girls. Well,
we had big meeting and some of the
wimmin came, and we started club
for the girls and fellows in the
school. Every one has got to learn
some sport, and the ones good at the
sport have to teach the ones who
want to learn it. Some skeme, jim
Then Miss Bell said we would take
hikes every week. She said she was