Show p fir jt iJ ors Emphasize Essential of Sound Body t TH IS L POINT TRAINING n en Must Be Taught I t That Lead to 10 Bod Body Speakers Are Arc Arek l k or of Pr Practical r Work ork J SIZING 4 o or of education by malki maki mak- mak i i fit the child rather than he lie child fit the thc education in the addres addresses cs at atI I sessions of oi moon oon n and evening i i nal al Education association I the Tabernacle yesterday takers ak rs agreed that industrial In in the public schools needed pHed ILd Hed to local conditions and ed in many places by byr byre pore r re practical and less acay aca- aca y for caro in teaching 1 good pl physical habits and emphasized In edin was as better fitted it tr l lio he might bo be the be Intricate weave Wea of oC mod- mod j the tho community singing ln at of the last lost nights night's ses- ses fJ H. H N. N Williams delivered tiU lIh Fairy Appear i ing session was waR devoted to tIO he health th education Sud- Sud thc itne upper right hand corner air lr loft appeared Miss Ann of ot the Child Health or CIl Ine in 1 America New York City neofa eora e of a. a fairy fain She d descended center of the tho rostrum nake alce ake believe house had been I MIM MM fl Raymond namond then recited Kl s ht been used suc- suc suc-j suc man inmany places to interest n n health work She Sho told the t fal fairy y house how old loranco had burned the house und jund nd great grief how whose hose name was Idu 1 tried to comfort her with k Keep up your courage ICo F tell you how to build ie anc It can be done b by of or o children alone livery Ever Uld learns to cat the right food a no brick shall be bo added o ee every er time e a a. child sleep i-sleep In the sweet fresh Ingle gle shall be put upon Ullon the ev every every ry time timen ix n child learns to tobe bc be happy a colored glass ded to the windows location atlon r fat fa l only onh half comforted th children could be taught laught s. s and the bird replied I Ithe the teachers who arc u-e wise viso J and tell them what to do i Third who name was Edu- Edu on his journey journe lie He brother Rumor with him to the teachers because there real eat t man many children to be he told childrens children's h health Far Val and ande BC e c wise birds traveled to lit Ht- and to big cities and every every- e teachers listened to their tI in all aU that great country countr in en were taught to eat whole- whole I to sleep In the sweet fresh pIa play and bo huppy hipp the children grew healthy y 7 the bricks were added to 8 5 house shingles les were put roof and lovel lovely colored glasH g the ie broken windows t breaking the spell of ot the there len leve re the fair fairy then told the thel 1 l secret tho the secret of health less es Sh told how each one onel l could ul Ud build a a. beautiful house with Ith magic mas-Ie the thc virtues of oC tn n vegetables and fruit sleep lef p and cleanliness It wa was wari all simply so o confidingly and glancing humor and 1 that even the teachers under the fair fairy spell Lat t Convey Method omas D. D Wood professor profesor of ot education teachers teachers' college r university New York City ernan nati ab of oC the tho health se session Slon I nat hat the Interesting Ida play rep rep- ine ne e em m method thod of practical health Which is Js being tried out to to- to Baid eald educators were trying hp hb things thinG's that interest chIl- chIl order cr to convey health lesi les- les Is i WB way Call Cu Jean sean director of ot child New York City value of ot dramatic appeal Ll education and said that no ft too young oung for tho the a b c of t She said that two I teachers scarcely realized t children were below par Shoo She said that on once co con Con- sols began working out J thoda to remedy 1 this 19 do- do Dr E. E G. G Gowans r of ot health of Salt Lake larked ar ed th that t Utah had the tho t tIu t 1 n page pago l 1 I t A t HEALTH IS VITAL VITAl- POINT IN TRAINING Continued Prom Pa Page lage e 1 best child health law of or an any 30 state Inthe in Sn inthe the union n. n Exam l tred Dr Gowans said For years ears earse we e haY hav listened to the doctrine that h health and pho physical cal fitness fit fit- oes ness are fundamental aims alms Of or tion Our does docs nation not need conversion converSIon con con- version to the value of at health tion Its schools school need immediate help in tho inauguration of a n. program of or essentials that will he hp generally if Ir not un universally achievable Here in Utah wo are actually going forward on what hat we e conceive e to b bo be such a pro pro- gram rio Tho essentials are First An First An examination of ot every even school child at lea least leant t. t once a year ear with special upon the e examina examination tion which precedes th the tho child's childs first t entrance Into school chool This ex examination consists of or a preliminary examination early In th the year yeni al b by the teacher followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed by hI a more technical examination examination examina examina- tion b by tho the he health supervisor who ho is isa isa I a physician a trained physical di director director dl- dl rector or a trained nU nur nurse e. e Hoy asserts that 0 O per cent of or remediable defects I I can bo be determined b by th tho th examination which teachers can bo be easily trained to glI gl give Second An effective tollo follow up up I which has hul for Cor Its purpose e the correction tion of the remedial l' defects revealed re by br the annual l examinations 1 Third The The inspection of or buildings s and grounds and tho the maintenance of or I sanitary and hygienic conditions In Inspection IOU Advocated I Fourth The protection of or lh the school population an and Incidentally the community from Iron conta contagious diseases I b by daU daily inspection of or pupils and n exclusion ex ex- elusion of or incipient cases This is of or vast ast Importance and m makes riece necessary Sal th tho training or of tea tea-chers to recognize the ver very beginnings 5 of or health ft 11 d 1 the creation of or a sentiment sentiment senti senti- ment among parents that will mako make for willingness si to operate co-operate in the exclusion for a are few days of an acutely sick child from school un under er tho as- as as assumption that it ma may in all probabilIty ity be 00 nn an acute contagious sickness To fa await tho the time when an art accurate diagnosis can be made mado is to make the thc exclusion Ineffectual Fifth Fifth fletter Better training in Sn personal persona household and public hygiene This means in n addition to the tho acquisition of some kno knowledge led e the actual Inculcation inculcation inculcation cation of ot health habits habits the the substitution substitution tion for what we have hao heretofore had of this concrete objective as th the th best means of at training In the art of ot health and the actual introduction of ot the young ounG into the the- activities of ot lire life which make for efficient household and public pub pub- lic lie sanitation Sixth Systematic physical training train train- ing InS as a. a means of at promoting normal physical growth gro I 1 Must MuM Wit rna Train Frain ID Yonn onn- onn There has developed tw loped In the tho minds of a number of or active workers a more or less definite conviction that health education viewed broadly Is not only an essential part of but probably the most valuable vehicle for tor moral train train- log InC It is clearer to us all toda today than ever before that It Is the business c of the elementary as well weB as aos of ot the secondary secondary sec eec school to train the young oung how to live JI This means habits of at dall dally daily life an Integral part of or which are the health ha habits H Health and citizenship are to tiO o closely linked together that a training training- In one cannot bo given sep Rep Crate arate apart from a a. training In th the thc other The civics and health clubs for tor junior high schools are our answer to this demand tor br rational school chool practice practice tice in 1 this lils field Margaret MarGan l S. S commissioner of ot elementary schools school Sacramento Calif emphasized the thc value of at muscle exercises In itt the health education of or the tho children She s said ld that ra- ra schools had a definite pIa play program program pro pro- gram She Thc said that it wa was nece necessary sary not only to have a passive maintaining maintain maintain- ing InS of or health but an nn active storing up of vitality nal Halm Itule health r Js own I I. I t w. w In lug ing schools ol- ol was U the subject chosen lo V e by I A A. A. A Slade Shade commissioner of ot education Cheyenne Wyo Wro Mr Slade said In the tue past paNt three years ears It is estimated estimated esti esti- mated that four tour million American children chil chil- dren have ha been enrolled In health work vork directed b by the thc National Tuberculosis Tuberculosis Tuberculosis Tuber Tuber- association A A National Health Program for tor Schools published b by tho the National Tuberculosis association as explains the work of tho organization and there are aro condensed within a to few pages suf sut- Sugg suggestions for tor a years year's work In any an o of the grades grade A quotation from this manual explains the underlying under under- lying principles In providing pro the motive the tho crusade utilizes various principles of ot child psychology It Introduces Introduces In Introduces In- In I the pIa play element clement Into practice practice practice tice of or h hygiene It transfers rs the romance romance ro romance ro- ro mance of tho the medieval crusades crusade to a a. avital vital present day qu quest st st. t. t It holds hold up to children the chivalry of or health It dramatizes the thc pursuit of or health n Results come como when we succeed In getting the thc Individual to put Into p tJ J t SI SIMEON D. D FESS p I 1 practice the thc hygienic hr facts which he I has learned This means real work for the teacher the school chool n nurse and the thc parent An Any device which will as assist assist as- as all concerned in orb chil dren drezi fur for this work ork should be we 1 cooled coated Children n I L Learn r arn rn Quickly Tho The following arc are extracts which h have ve ben been taken from count county superintendents super super- teachers and school chool nurses concerning the health work in the Ule schools of Wyoming When visiting schools I usually make some comment on the tle health work At t one school chool just before dinner dinner din din- ner ncr I talked over ocr the thc different chores with sith some thirty pupils On their return re return re- re turn after noon every last child had made some somo Improvement in his toilet Clean hands hand clean aprons clean handI hand hand- I kerchiefs er 1 Every Eiery boy had wet his hair I and plastered it down flat fIAt if It ho he hadn't I done anything else 1 Mothers have ha told me mo that the crusade crusade cru cru- II sade Is a saving labor device for them Children get themselves read ready for school chool without being told to do everything every every- thin thing In detail Most of or my 01 children come corne of or foreign for for- 1 eign olga parentage and I have found the badges bad of award most helpful in lating an interest In tho the chores which otherwise would seem useless to themI themI them I wish you ou could see tho the improvement Improvement improve Improve- I ment In m my ins' pupils pupils' teeth since we began the chores 1 would now noVo match I them against t any thirteen sets of or teeth I In the tho state t of Wyoming omI n I tell them thern I they mu must t smile broadly at visitors so that the thc they wIll wil see their white while and shining teeth They have ha promised me rue that the they will continue the chores all through vacation Our teachers have found that h health crusade work ma may be cas easily II correlated with hygiene language drawing community com corn civics J and nd reading adding vi vitality vitality vi- vi 1 to each that It appeals strongly to all II children especially In the grades below the tho high school and that It Il is pedagogically and scientifically IU cor cor- I- I Every Iery ery teacher and parent knows that health chores of ot themselves contain con con- tam tain no attraction for the average child When the performance of these chores chore connects the child with national state and local and makes an appeal to so o man many motives motheR which are upp uppermost in the tho childs child's life lite at a given age we are certain to I get t re ro- ro suits Katherine Katherin D. D finIte Blake principal of ot pub lie school No C G New ew York CIt City said that tho the public do does s not let a chauffeur chauffeur drive any tn car without some train train- Sag Inc and yet yot t man many children are al allowed allowed al- al lowed to grow gro up without the slight- slight st st knowlt of ot the won wonderful machin ma- ma chin chims their body od She told lold of or how children were we're without play pla- space in iii inmany many ran parts of New Ness ew York and how ho hun bun of schools In the prairie states hl hail no toilets and lOd drinking drinking- water tinny Many Pound lOUDd Unfit C. C G. G Pearse president of tho the Stale State Normal school chool Milwaukee I WK said sahl that the nation had been startled when I surgeons during the war proe proved that third one of the young oun men were Unfit un Un- fit tit for military service lef lie lle said ald that an art equal number of young o women would have l been heen found to lie he physically physically physic physic- ally unfit if such an au examination were made He He advocated adoc that every r man and andonian woman ornan should conic come to th their tr place pUce In Inthe Inthe inthe the world accomplished In omo out otil- sport for the tal take sake c of or benefits re re- re Ho lie said that pioneers and early arh Inhabitants were kept fit tit b by their daily work but hut that city life had rendered u a startling number r unfit Children of today actual actually have lost Jost the Instinct to eat In many cases cage ac according according ac- ac cording to authorities s. s said aid Caroline Hedger a physician of Chicago who hns has char charge c of nutrition work ork In the the- schools of or that city |