Evening star., 1939-02-12

want to put your 1eet up on tne Iaple
60 ahead and rest
Do it rhythmically, he added,
warning against becoming like the
man who went into a fit OF rage
the other day at Macy's when he
missed compartment in a revolv-
ing door,
Getting down to specific habits,
DR.. Nash indicated there is nothing
particularly healthy about washing
your neck and ears" The average
boy he said, is IS years old before
he knows neck and ears is more
than one word.
1--WE have bathing fetish, 1t
seems to me-" he said. ut wasn't
so long ago that bath Saturday
night was enough
Sleep Is Fundamental.
His real objection though, he re-
vealed, was putting washing the
neck and ears on par with nine
hours sleep as health item.
"One is fundamental" he pointed
out, "the other not
DR.. Nash admitted that if he were
writing a book on how to make
friends and keep them, however, he
might include something about neck
and ear washing.
Taking a cold shower in the morn
ing has no place in his program.
These abnormal individuals that
take a cold shower before break
fast" he said, well, they're"
He paused for moment to think
of good word and then finished,
They're just pathological" A burst
of applause followed this remark,
apparently indicating entire accord.
AS to getting up hurriedly in the
morning, DR.. Nash said the French
Academy states one should consume
Is minutes rising.
And that fits my philosophy ex-
actly," he said emphatically.
He also revealed that he per-
sonally liked to stick his toes out
from under the covers, bring them
back in again, roll over a few times
and, in short, enjoy a thoroughly
rhythmic awakening.
Sarcastically, he cited rule from
a hygiene text which said a child
should "eat regularly and cheerfully
everything that is given it.
No Cheer in Spinach.
Suppose the young child is given
sauerkraut, he wanted to know
And the worst thing about it is hav-
ing to eat it "cheerfully." He said
he ate spinach because it was good
for him, but not "cheerfully"
He condemned health axioms with
"a grain of truth in them," such as
"a clean tooth will not decay"
That" he said, in a voice heavy
with scorn, "is a lie"
His mother told him when he was
boy that the night air was poi
sonous. When he was made to sleep
with the window open, he said he
began to suspect the poisonous
business was a maternal device for
keeping him in at night.
Were pretty gullible," he said,
pretty gullible"
DR.. Nash admitted one might de-
tect from his remarks feeling that
teaching hygiene is 100 per cent
waste of time, if not negative" His
special advice to the physical educa-
ton teachers was to work through
the parents to the children. A
physical education program. in his
opinion, must not be developed un-
less three conditions prevail in the
child. He must be free from "infec-
tious drains" relieved from strains
such as worry of any sort and have
the correct diet,
He announced at the outset that he
would probably "step on some small,
elegant toes" but condemned the
hoop skirt method" of answering a
question: solution which covers
everything, but touches nothing.
Commissioner Hazen also ad-
dressed the gathering. Mr.. Hazen
expressed an interest in athletics
and admitted having captained a
college baseball team that licked
st. Johns College and the Naval
Academy in the same day.
His athletic prowess continued
into the commissionership, he said
when his softball club took over a
team headed by former Commis-
sioner George Allen.
DR.. Mitchell Dreese of George
Washington University spoke to the
morning session and after the
luncheon the men and women sepa-
rated for group discussions. A bad
minton and square dance demon
stration brought the convention
sponsored by the Physical Education
Association of the District to close
Miss Jenny E. Turnbull. president
presided during the luncheon~