Evening star., 1925-05-24
Capital Sidelights

else and the first in lifelong useful
ness.
DR.. Henry S. Curtis, State director
of physical education for Missouri,
after making a comprehensive survey
for the United States Bureau of Edu-
cation. relates how he scored a num-
Der of exercises on their appeal
whether loyalty is created, whether
cooperation Is demanded, on exercise
value. safety, corrective value, inter
est, average value to student body,
years continued and life value. His
| ratings, which will upset many pre-
conceived popular opinions, are as fol-
lows:
walking. first; swimming second;
volley ball, third; tennis, fourth: soc.
GER, NTH; playground base bail, sixth;
hockey, seventh; dancing. eighth;
track dashes GEO yards and less),
ninth; field athletics = the hammer
throw. shotput, discus and javelin-
and base ball are tied for tenth place:
basket ball. eleventh; foot ball.
twelfth; jumps, thirteenth gymnas.
tics, fourteenth, and long track runs,
fifteenth.
Df. curtis found that in popularity
swimming was first, basket ball sec.
ond and soccer third. This seems to
be body blow at the quite universal
opinion that base ball is our great
national game. His ratings are ba sed
on the preferences of boys and girls
In two universities.
DIR. Curtis estimates that waILi,s
dancing, swimming and .volley bali
may be carried on for 90 wears.
tennis for 40 years hockey for 20
ana playground base bali and soccer
Ior ~ years. But in life value he
ranks walking first, swimming sec
ono Volley ball third, tennis fourth
ana neid athletics last. Here is what
ne says about walking
Probably walking represents about
nlne-tenths of all the physical energy
most or us develop. 1t Is the only
activity most OF US continue in after
NE. II is said that in walking 90
miles we raise the weight of our
bodies vertically one mile. 1t is a
decided advantage for students TO
nave good walk to and from high
school. Every high school should
nave walkers guide and develop a
series of 20 TO 80 walks OF from 70
20 miles each
Have you little HOMEGROWN
forest in your towns back ward? It's
the very latest in community styIe
and in the economy efficiency wave
that Is sweeping over the country
under the regime of CAL Coolidge.
The sovereign State of which Cool
idse was formerly governor is leading
In the spreading movement to make
waste land productive by planting
municipal forests. A text book for
CITY ana town authorities and civic
orga niZations. showing how to carry
out local forestation program has
been prepared by Harris A. REYNOLDS.
secretary of the Massachusetts For
estrr Association. which is to be
given Nation n-wide distribution by the
American Tree Association.
The movement has many ramifica.
tions. wealthy resident of Berks
county. Pa. gave large tract OF land
Tor school forest. Boy Scouts have
planted 10000 pines a Lansing. Mich.
The little town of Warwick. Mass.
| has voted 10 establish a town forest
The Northfield. VI. Chamber of Com.
merce made a drive 10 set out Il. 600
trees. New York State authorities are
preparing TO plant 10000 900 trees for
municipalities and individuals. The
City Of Albany has planted Sc. 900 pines
with view to providing lumber sup.
ply for the city in 90 years. More tha n
10000 nut bearing trees are being
planted in one county in West Nir-
g1nia. Boy Scouts in GloversviIle, N Y,
planted 1900 trees this Spring. These
are but illustrations-the plant trees
crusade is spreading all over the coun-
try.
And TO get the soul-stirring vision of
it all just read the hero.poet, Joyce
kilmer's lines on What do we plant
when we plant a tree
The practical side OF It is pointed out
by Mr.. Reynolds, who says that every
| town can produce Its lumber supply
and should do SO. A town forest will
prove an important means of aiding a
town to reduce It's taxation and debt,
and to beautify land that would other.
| wise be a liability. I'm hundreds OF
European towns the citizens receive a
check each year instead of tax bill
because of their forests" saws Cha rles
Lathrop Peck, president of the Ameri
can Tree Association
All OF which Is pretty good argu.
ment for Congress when il returns TO
the Capital to realize the desira bility
| of establishing a national arboretum
on the Mount Hamilton tract as a fit
ting and utilitarian Identification of
the entra nee to the National Capital
from the East.
Uncle Sam is constantly and con-
tinually doing SO many and such
varied things for the betterment of
our citizens that we often entirely
overlook these benefactions. Take
| iodine, for example, which prevents
and reduces goiter and other disorders
Of the thyroid gland, or Adams ap.
pie Arthur W. Wells, assistant
technologist of the United States Bu-
reau of Fisheries, has found iodine
in preserved fish and fish meal. as
we'll as In fresh fish. This discovery
is OF very great Importance to in
habitants of regions where fresh fish
are difficult to obtain. as goiter Is
usually prevalent among them, but
seldom where plenty of fish is eaten.
Anybody who eats fish two or three
times a week will never suffer from
ranks the fresh fish in the following
order for iodine content-lobster,
clans, oysters. oyster juice, shrimp,
rock bluefish. white perch. Spanish
mackerel. tautog, spots, haddock, cod,
soup. pollock, etc.
Most fresh water fish, and also such
foods as butter, eggs. corn, milk, beef
steak, apples and wheat have iodine,
but not in such large quantities as
fish
You who have been accustomed to
quips at the Weather Mans expense.
| and jibes about his representations
that sometimes go awry don't get a
| mental vision of the whole picture, for
| there is apparently no limit to the
practical uses that are being made Of
forecasts and weather data generally
supplied by the United States Weather
Bureau.
A teacher of vocal expression plan.
ned an outdoor recital As her pupiIs