The Coconino sun., 1923-01-19
PROPER DEVELOPMENT
AND CARE OF YOUTH
TALKED BY EXPERTS

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pretty nearly all angles at Tuesdays
meeting of the Rotary club. 1t was
an instructive and inspiring program
that had been worked out by Bert
Cameron, chairman for the day.
DIR. M. G.. Fronske, chairman of the
boys work committee, said that with
the purchase and improvement of the
new city park we are on the thres-
hold of wonderful things in the afford
ing of better facilities for athletics
and physical benefit not only to our
boys and girls, but to adults. With
, gymnasium being definitely planned
and the probability of having swim
ming pool, athletic field, ETC., In the
new city park, needs we have long
felt are about to be filled
r. H. Drake, athletic director at
the Normal school, called attention to
the war draft showing that about 30
per cent of the men called were phys
ically unfi. In Alabama alone the
physically unfit among the drafted
men represented the loss in earning
power of S250,000,000. The draft also
showed that most physical imperfec-
| tions could have been prevented had
| they been taken in time. Also that
| the city boys, where even in the slums
many belonged to athletic clubs, aver
aged higher physically than the coun-
try boys.
At present in Flagstaff the only
public night meeting place for the
boys is the pool hall. We should have
a country club, with golf, tennis, vol
| ley ball and other sports, both for
young and old, and with signs up on
the road hundred miles in every di-
rection telling tourists that for them,
also, we have these things.
"If we can lead the world with 30
per cent of our men unfit, what
couldn't we do with 100 per cent fit
ness 2" he asked.
DIR. A. J. Mackey spoke of the i'm
portance to the health of proper care
of the teeth. Up until the last few
years dental science had been directed
more at curative than preventative
| methods, but the war changed that
and now for three years or more the
keynote is prevention. Many people,
he said, have the mistaken idea that
almost any condition may exist in a
child's teeth and it doesn't mean any
thing. But the health of even the
first teeth is vitally important. In de-
| fects of the first teeth is often laid
the foundation for future serious de-
fects.
DR.. A. H. Sschermann's subject was
the child's eyes. Conservation of the
health Of the eye becomes more I'M
portant with each year. Each year
has brought more work for the eyes
and more eye strain. There is more
reading, more use of instruments dur
ing study, such as the microscope, tel
escope. etc. In pleasure the eye is
used more especially since the intro
duction of moving pictures. All this
leads to the need of measures for the
correction of eye strain.
| Few realize the effect of eye strain
on the general health, the headaches,
nervous and other ailments that may
result and handicap the child In its
studies. The chances for the child's
success in life depend very largely
on the parents caresin this direction.
w. D. Myers, Boy Scout executive
| for the Grand Canyon council, SAID
/ the Boy Scout program IS designed
for an all-around development OF the
boy.
/ l.. B. McMullen said that what the
Normal school wants this year is a
/ gymnasium. He asked the Rotarians
to talk it up, to tell our legislators
about it. In spite of hard times and
economy talk, he said, he is confident
the gym can be obtained. For such
talk is not because of hard times but
/ because people have become interested
in seeing that they get their moneys
worth for what is spent.
Get all our men thinking IN terms
/ of physical development" he said. Il
feel sorry for men who go into old
age without knowing how to play any
thing. If this community can be made
4 playing community it will be devel-
oped more thoroughly than by any
| other means"
i Chairman Cameron said that city
! council will have the money available
within the next 80 days for the new
city park and asked for suggestions to
the council as to how the development
can best be made. Within the next
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