Milford chronicle., 1925-09-04
PROSPECTS GOOD FOR BRILLIANT YEAR
AMONG DELAWARE FUBLTC SCHOOLS
Heavy Enrolment Bespeak Greater Interest In Education And With
More Qualified Instructors General Outlook Is GOOdTO Develop
Community Spr-HOpe For Much From Physical Education

appreciated by the citizens as g
whole and their worries sympathized
with. When that time comes Della
ware schools are going to assume
the place the taxpayers of the state
are entitled to-"
One of the ways in which the
work of the teachers and principals
and superintendent will be helped
this year is through the institution
of what amounts to a corrective sys-
tenn of physical education. To the
heads of the school system of Della
ware this does not mean training
football and basketball teams and
baseball mines, entirely. That is but
a small part of it. But to seeing
that every child has the proper kind
of exercise and does it regularly.
There may be ten children in one
school who have stopped shoulders" 4"
said DR.. Brown. These ten chill
dren should have a corrective kind
of exercise that will straighten them
and aid them. There may be six chill
dren who cannot see the blackboard
from very close approach and these
should receive the special attention
their condition demands.
"In other words" said DR.. Brown,
''it is not the thirty or forty students
who play basketball or football, but
the three or four hundred who at
tend a school who should receive the
proper kind of exercise. The ath-
letes seldom need as much attention
as those who take no part in regu-
lar sport, and it is this class of chill
dren that we want to help because
they need it more than the Others"
Physical Education Helps
There are statistics to show how
this sort of physical education not
only aids the student help him or
her to become a stronger, more COM
petent man or woman, but also re-
duces the expense in education. |
Proper attention paid to some child |
who has a slight physical defect in
their youth may save them years of
suffering and worriment in later life
and enable them to be stronger and |
more powerful men and women |
when they are called upon to meet
problems which they will have to
face when they reach manhood and |
This physical instructor will also
have supervision over the sports and
games which the various state high
schools indulge in. Last spring
there was no decision as to baseball
honors because there was a dispute
that ended without adjustment. If
the wishes of the State Board of
are followed such a con-
iition will never arise again.
viii Help Discipline
eve hope in this angle Of sport to
aid the entire system through will
ngness to obey and demonstration
1f discipline that will help in many
ways" said DR.. Brown. ''If it's base
ball." he said, "the umpire will be
he one and final arbiter of the game
Ind what he says will go. 1t he isn't
it, then he will be rejected and
arbiter selected, and we
lOpe to eliminate all such wrangling
Is existed a few months ago, and,
With proper discipline in sport, to
)ring about better discipline in all
hings."
The new physical director will di-
'ect all sport in the state schools
md will thus relieve one of the as
istant superintendents of the worry
ntailed in trying to preserve peace
nd harmony among ambitious high
chool students. One instructor was
ngaged but more promising offer
oming afterwards resulted in his
efusing Delaware's offer. Efforts ;
re being made now to obtain COM ]
etent man for the job with hopes c
f obtaining someone within short l
Star. /