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aad committees are appointed (with
salaries) to look into the matter,
Sonte are recommending that all of
M. W O O D W A R D
us be seat back to the farm and
M in u to Diklwtor
others that we be hired by the Gov-
eminent. What a tremendous awak-
enlng to In store for all these dear
people when the soldier seta his foot
upon
the old sod, shakes the dust of
I >■ the mStok« »I Mvvrbnr*. Or«*»«,
battle from his clothes, and wades
into things with a breeze that will
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many pitfalls that lay in waiting for f
the young and inexperienced, and ap-
predate the advantages that 'will
come to them from never having
gone wrong.
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PHYSICAL FITNESS A NATIONAL
NECESSITY
During the past two or three years
there das been much advocacy of
ow an Pag- Yuar in Advtnc« Wow aU th* char,ty board* and *°T- universal military training, though
------- committees out of his way
ernor
the best military authorities say that
forever."
mUESDAY. MARCH 13, 1*19.
* such training in civil life has little
value from a military standpoint. A
Better begin to brace yourself for
Trust the small boy to tell the bill passed the House in the Oregon
t of bed an hour earlier,' truth about home affairs without legislative assembly Just held calling
March 30. when daylight any mental reservation when occa- for military training in the public j
be ushered in.
sioa demands. One morning recent- schools but tt was killed In the
"ly three «mall lads called at the senate.
Beal estate dealers say that with Graphic desk with a notice for publl- ( During the discussion on the mer­
la cation
a u o n of an article lost from the its of the bill there was much stress
the showing of ren«w«d activity In
there houael
household commissary. The writer
tend sales in I the community there
laid on the value suchi training
thoee* offered condolence by saying the l o a ,
“
>n on the pert of thoee*oi,#re<
Is a disposition
In the way of making
when
promptly
one
sen anxious to sell te WM 1
who have been
young men physically fit.
All
il piped up with. "Yes.
ip and thus dries away F°un*
jump prices up
classes who have given any thought
too well off. anyway."
prospective buyers.
tQ the matter realise that our schools
are woefully lacking In the matter of
i f any further .evidence that the
Few communities show
shoi more seal providing proper training for our
war Is over should be asked for let |B the get-together spirit
spirt than does boys and girls from a hygienic stand­
tt be known that two cent letter pos- our neighboring town, Dundee,
Dt
when point, but many do not favor latro-
Only
recently during military training in the
tags aad one cent post cards are on occasion demands.
On
sol- ' schools, believing the same ends may
the way, and that from Crockett, ■ when a number of home-coming
home
The
California, comes the announcement! diers were expected to pi
this way be obtained in other ways.
that on Wednesday, “ Manager Wal- on the train, there was a gathering “ National Physical Education Ser­
rho were pre- vice” has recently issued a leaflet
ter McCredie trotted out his I f Ben- of the Dundee cltisens wl
heroes with that covers the subject so well that
war players for their first day's! pared to shower the 1
waarkont."
• flowers and good things to eat. and we give it herewith to our readers:
i ■ -.i.-
; when tt was learned that all but one,
Are We Awake to the Need!
These last four years of extraordi­
We hope our readers will take th e ' the son of W. 8. Allan,
Allan had been
Forest Grove nary demand for unlimited man­
time to read an article on this page j routed around by the V
who power and woman-power have fo­
«atitled “ Physical Fitness a National j line, a number o f the people,
;
out, cused the attention of the world up­
Necessity " It to rather lengthy, hat were not thus to be left entirely
.
sded Into automobiles and went on the essential but neglected values
It has to do with a subject that
it
McMinnville to participate In the of physical education.
ought to appeal to everyone, and
home-coming
exercises.
England, France. Belgium. Italy
especially to parents, teachers aad
and America have counted their
aehool boards, as well as others who
youth with feverish anxiety, lest the
are in aay way connected with the
Much complaint is heard of late
vigorous and healthy supply should
training of the young.
of young boys and girls gadding be found inadequate to the steadily
about the streets late at night when
The selection of seeds for plant- they ought to be at home and in bed, growing and fearful demand.
Shocked by their number of physi­
lag may be all right now. but it will and a revival o f the curfew ordi­
ordl-
be well to keep out of the “ war gar­ nance is being urged. All of which cally unfit, these nations have
den” until the ground gets fr y to simply an index to an appalling looked back with shame on the neg­
enough to work without r * fcl*f laxity in the home life of many fam­ lect of their youth In the days of
W a k in g soil while it te wet here in ilies in the community, some in town peace, and they have surveyed with
the Willamette Valley, in the spring and others who are on the outskirts. i( faar and dread the evidence of wast­
time, always serves to prove that The ringing of a curfew bell at a i ed human service and wasted hun&an
so suddenly impressed upon
haste makes waste In time and labor stated hour, coupled with the
uir wiuv-
aetlv- ! ; them in their period of d<
aad the crop that is in prospect.
(ties of a wideawake marshal of good
Judgment might help some, but
about the best work the new organi­
zation of women for law enforcement
can engage in. will be a house to
house campaign for a revival o f in­
terest in the responsibility o f parent­
hood. With mere children turned
loons on the streets to go and come
at all hours of tbs day.
the night, nothing short
will save them from go-
an age old fact that
seem utterly blind to.
problem and it will
ss long as there are ehll-
into the world to be either
drift with the tide o f loose
or to be carefuly guarded
reach an age where they
see for themselves the
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with wholesome physical environ- and girls during the period of im-| physically fit.
ment. Individual physical examina maturity, and by encouraging in| Ar® tbe ®chool‘i *n your *tate pro~
tlon and record, development of adults those physical activities es- aiding G»*t, along with the necessary
health habita and Instruction in 8ential to tbs continuation of health i mental and moral training, every
health knowledge, hygienic school ' an(j bodily vigor
I child shall have the Instruction Is
management and procedure, and co-j w ,thln th, , „ t year .
the princtpla of health and the
directed activities sssentlsl to
operation with all agencies that | Commlttee
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Committee on Physical
make for physical upbuilding and has been organised, composed of rep­ providing this fundamental prerequi­
site— physical fttnessT
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the moral growth inevitably Incident resentatives from more than f i f t y '1
Has
your
state
made
the
to sane, wholesome, active physical national
organisations
concerned I
.. . .
...
lift.
with the conservation of ehUd life
whlch
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It must provide for boys sad girls and with the consequent production
P «™ »tage of young peopl.
alike. From the point of view of of s vigorous and enduring eltlsen- who
th* ‘ “ duatr1“
occupations receive the phjvteal
racial strength and Integrity, the gh
1
1 training essential not only to effee-
physical upbuilding of women to of
The Playground and Recreation, tlTOTt- tn thelr choM„ work but
eqaul importance with that of
Association of America, at the re- >)BO tQ th#|r p . , * » , , „npptnees?
perhaps of greater Importance.
quest
of this Nstlonsl Committee,
h thU „ ot . matter of , uffident
I It should provide for Federal aid
ha« established s Physical Education national significance to warrant ths
the strain on this human to *nabl® the atataa to eract *®d
Service, which alms to provide e ' Federal oovern&ent in taking ths
apparently over.
The carTy on thorou* h 4nd «««ctiv e «re­
I
means through whieh all those hi-||ejMj ^ providing a wise stimulation,
call for health, for strength i tems of Physical education. This
tereated In this problem can work , gul<UlIC# and „ .fe u n c e to the states
for endurance; the fearful aeed Federal aid should be limited to
together to a common end. T h e ; through the nppropriatlon o f na-
nerve, for will-power and tor 1 Preparation of teachers for skilled
Ssrvice aims to disseminate to t h e ,tlona, fund_ ,
persistence; the insistent aad terri-j 8®nr,c* and *
>
f or "ki,l®d '• r* various states the b a t thought of
The ph- „ lcal ^ w t o n of ths
fylng demand for men, sound aw n .1 v,ce-
leaders
la
physical
education,
and
to
j
country
„^ s tu d y in g to put la
It must guarantee the autonomy
more men. and more men physiesily
aaatet
in
the
promotion
of
state
end
!
ple
yet
coniplete
fonn the ^
and the initiative of the states. It
'and physiologically fit, are gone!
federal
legislation.
of
4
nntional
program
tor physical
must be so framed as to permit lati­
Will we forget? Will England,
This to s time In which to take; fitness. An even more Important
tude of administrative procedure ac­
France, Belgium. Italy and Amer­
cording to the genius and tradition account of stock. With ths conclu- difficult task to that of securing the
ica forget? May it be said that ths
of the several states, and to encour­ slon of the war emergency, which effective operation of such a pro­
war being over we are no longer na­
age Initiative and flexibility In the caused such a tremendous upheaval gram. You can assist la this move,
tionally concerned with our youths?
development of educational methods la the life of the country, there Js ment tor national physical fitness.
Will it be true that these human re­
laid before us ths opportunity to ¡Never before have we understood so
and processes.
sources are precious only for ths
plan for a thorough-going regenera- ; dearly the neceasity for the rapi«
Universal
physical
education
to
purpose of war.
neither a substitute for nor an ad­ tion of our national Ufe. As the realisation of health and that tri­
The preparation of youth for ths
junct of military training. It to a foundation of all human progress, | umphant bodily vigor which opens
battles of maturity to as Important
program for producing men and howSver, we must have a citizenship the door to m new national efficiency.
for peace as It 1s for war. The need
women physically fit for whatever
for vigorous, healthy, and longer
may be tbe responsibilities of citi­
lived men end women is as Impor­
zenship. This end to to be accom­
tant for tomorrow as It was for yes­
plished by physically educating boys
terday.
Thirty-three per cent of the men
in the first draft were rejected as
physteaUy unfit. Allowing for un­
der-weight and special sensory de­
fects, neither of which argues gen­
eral physical unfitness, not less thsn
twenty-five per cent were rejected
for real physical unfitness. That
means 2,500,000 between the agee
o f twenty-one and thirty were unfit
for military service; therefore unfit
to render full measure of service In
Light Fi
any capacity; therefore unable to
get full returns from life in work
and happiness. An equsl number of
is
women doubtless suffer from dis­
•f
far
qualifying defects.
There are 25.000,000 boys and
m tbe f
girls of school age. six to eighteen
years, marching along the great
highway of youth. Numerous loves,
tigatlons show that at least fifty per
cent of these have defects and ail­
ments that impede normal develop­
ment in greater or less degree; that
TAKES THE PLACE OF A HORSE OR HOLE FOE PLOWING.
they live, at home and at school, in
When
yea
consider
the
ever­
conditions more or less unhygienic;
HAREOWING OR CULUVATINQ.
lasting pleasure that the VIC-
that they, lack tbe positive physical
IT CULTIVATES ANT CROP GROWN Of ROWS
TROIA will ifre you aad year
education— play, athletics, gymnas­
family
;
when
yon
oonsider
It
goes
astride onions, carrots, beets sad ether ersps grows
tics, work— necessary to realise their
what
it
means
in
year
life
te
in
IS,
14
sad 16 inch rows. We hare attachments for culti­
potential man and woman power.
have
music
that
yon
orare
vating
either
one or three rows si one time. It cultivates he-
England, appreciating a deplora­
right at year fingers* ends
ble physical condition of her youth,
and when yon compere hew
has Included In her plans for re-or­
mach
the YICTR0LA brings te
ganization of her educational sys­
yea
and
how little it takes
tem extensive provision for compul­
from your pocketbook te get
sory physical education.
one, yon will realise that yea
In France there has rscently been
ewe it to yourself to hare s
appointed under Government direc­
Yietrola
now!
tion a Natlonaj Committee for the
Let
us
demonstrate
s Yietrola
development of physical education.
to
you
and
play
any
mogie you
What will America do to meet
wish to hear. Terns to n it
this situation? State and Federal
your eonrenienoe.
legislation are the essentials of a
campaign for national physical fit­
ness. Such legislation should Inter­
pret physical education in a broad
and true way, as understood by the
5M First St
most competent experts In school
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administration and in physical edu­
cation. It must assume physical ac­
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