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Show THE CITIZEN 4 scenes which gave them much joy and stated their desire for revenge. When the story was told in court Bedbug Bill was addedJo Haywoods collection of nicknames and even his own followers delighted to honor him with this sobriquet. The country was amazed and enraged at some of the facts brought out at the trial. Hitherto the public had but dimly grasped the meaning of sabotage. Mr. Nebeker was able to present a long list of acts employed to cripple agriculture and industry. Among these were driving spikes in logs to break saws, placing phosphorus balls in the harvest fields to destroy grain, putting phosphorus matches in wheat stacks to wreck threshing machines, driving copper nails into the fruit trees of California and using various means to break machines in factories. These acts had no other purpose than to ruin the whole business structure of the richest of nations and reduce the population to penury, hunger, misery and revolution. At the time the leaders were seized they had fomented a great strike in the northwest which had paralyzed the lumber industry. The object was to prevent the government from obtaining the lumber needed for ships, airplanes and army camps. The arrest of the leaders and the disruption of the organization helped to render the strike futile. In the southwest the I. W. W. had caused the copper, strike as a means of giving Germany aid and this led to the deportations which so stirred the country. To Mr. Nebeker must ascribed the victory over the I. W. W., for. the evidence he developed with tireless labor not only convicted the accused but created an enlightened public opinion which proved an effective check to the spread of radicalism and revolutionary sentiI ment. Mr. Nebeker was not the only member of his family to serve the country during the war. Two of his sons, Frank Nebeker, Jr., and Lyman M. Nebeker, were members of the ambulance corps in France. His Sidney H. Young, was a captain in France and was son-in-la- w, badly gassed. ADDING TO SPAN OF LIFE our idealists who are eager to reform the world by law could to triumphs the ideas suggested by the American Physical Education association which has just closed its western district convention in Salt Lake they would achieve something for humanity beyond, perhaps, even their brightest visions of economic change. How narrow some of our reformers are ! They keep their gaze fastened on economics as if it were a magical fount from which was IF to spring all human regeneration and happiness. It would be difficult for a perfectly healthy man, even if he were I camp community service, told the convention about the work and its results. He called attention to the fact that in Chester, Pa., a large factory city, the civic recreation and social center programs had educated the men and done away with race riots. It can accomplish similar ends in a thousand cities and ten thousand factories. For the most part the delegates were thinking of physical edu-- y cation and hygiene 'in the schools, arguing rightly that if we are to have healthy men and women we must have healthy boys and girls. The startling revelation that 33 per cent of the men drafted for; service in the army were physically unfit has had much to do with spurring on the work of disease prevention and physical education. The development of physical education in the schools will be. one of the most important reforms of the next few decades. It will be one of the noblest and most beneficial reforms ever attempted. An eminent English divine said that cleanliness was next to godliness, but he probably would have been wiser had he used the word healthfulness. Perhaps he meant that. One of the handicaps of the work must be mentioned. If it isv confined to the schools it will accomplish only an unsatisfactory percentage of what it should accomplish. It should be carried on among men and women everywhere. The difficulty is to devise the means. No one who has experienced in his own person the benefits derived from the setting up exercises in the army will deny' that exercise among men and women in civilian pursuits would be equally advantageous. If the hygiene of the army could be made the devoted task of every member of every family how soon would slums disappear and houeholds be purified. The great, disheartening obstacle is lack of interest. Even a realization of benefits is not enough to arouse interest. If we could have playgrounds and civic centers which would stir as much interest in the hearts of the adult as the playgrounds stir in the hearts of the children we would begin immediately to make progress. Perhaps that is the task of the psychologist. At any rate, ways and means must be found to arouse and keep aroused individual enthusiasm. It cannot be done by meetings of educators, although that will help. But whether it be the task of the psychologist, of the physical educator or of both and many others in association, it is the first task that must be accomplished. Thousands of men who, for a short time, have proved to themselves the wonderful benefits of daily exercise have lost interest. Even the promise of an additional fifteen years of life cannot get them out of their unhealthy rut. There must be added to physical education and disease prevention an element of entertainment. How this is to be done we do not know, but it must be done. And when it is done we shall have conferred upon mankind a blessing to which the political reformer is. blind, a blessing beyond anything which he writes into his party platforms. a slave, to be unhappy. His sound mind in a sound body would repel THE WORLDS TOMORROW the melancholy thoughts which spring from bad health. A man with a good conscience and' sound health is not apt to be is well to temper our delight at the signing of peace with some a Bolshevist and thirst for his brothers blood or even his property. IT reflections on the fundamental element which modifies all coveOn the contrary, he is apt to be so sane of mind, though his gray matter be sparse, that he will not be misled by the wild schemes of unhe- nants, human and divine human nature. How proud most of us were five years ago at the stage the world . reformers. althy-minded had reached! In a single century mankind seemed to have made In the slums of New York brilliant minds, burrowing amid cesspools of thought, pick up all the deadly germs of radicalism and more progress than in all the ages of history combined. The least revolution, and are off to Russia to make over the world in their own of the great powers among the nations was mightier than the emimage. They cannot detect their own hideousness because their minds pire of Rome. In science, invention, commerce and industry such are abnormal unsound minds in unsound bodies. A healthy south- wonders had been accomplished that civilization appeared to be well ern negro who is as happy over a watermelon as a prospector over a on the road to the millennium. Materialism had become a god that d gold mine is saner, than a bright mind bitten deep with laughed at religion. At one stroke materialism revealed the rottenness at its heart and men turned hopefully once again toward poisons from an unhealthy body. We are moved to these moralizings by way of emphasizing what Man had made substantial progress, lie had conquered the the American Physical Education association is trying to do. When it tells us that 3,000,000 persons are always sick in the United States, earth, the seas and even the air. One thing only he had not conquered himself. Many centuries ago he had entered into a covenant, ass that most of the sickness could be prevented by physical exercise and due observance of the rules of health, and that the span of life could it were, with a new religion called Christianity. Almost 2,000 years easily be increased by fifteen years, we should realize that their goal later he had kept the covenant so illy that the wild beast in him, was g of the nation, but its mental and as rampant as it had been in the days when men crucified Christ or is not merely the physical g as well. made torches of martyrs in the gardens of Nero. moral When we try to visualize the future we must not lose Commissioner Frank L. Jones, of the national committee for sight of hu- new-foun- . well-bein- well-bein- |
