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Do You Belong to Your
National Association?

By
C. H. McCLOY

StaTE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

EAR after year I am both amazed and distressed

at the number of teachers of physical educa-

tion who fail to join the American Association for
Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, hereafter
to be spoken of as the A. A. H. P. E. R. I am distressed
by the fact that so few of us are supporting our na-
tional organization. From a purely selfish point of
view, what do we get for our money?

First, we get a real bargain of literature. I have
analyzed the 1939 magazines of the Association. For
the $2.50 membership we get the JouRNAL oF HEALTH
AND PuysicaL Epucation. In 1939, there were ap-
proximately 450,000 words of professional material
(exclusive of advertising). This amount would cor-
respond to about 1,500 pages of ordinary textbook
size. If purchased in book form, this material would
cost from $12.00 to $15.00, according to the number
of tables, cuts, etc. In the magazine we get this material
for $2.50 a year. If we were offered four or five 300-

Reprinted from THE JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL
Epucation, April, 1941, Vol. XII, No. 4.