Physical ‘Ed’
Program

Outlines New Program
For Education Group
At Meeting

A six-point program for physical
‘}education and recreation was sub-
mitted at the afternoon session of
the summer educational conference
at the University of Kansas by Alfred
O. Anderson, director of physical ed-
ucation and recreation at St. Louis,

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West of the National Physical Edu-
cation Association. His program:

 

1. Leisure time activities should be
. constructive and educational.
_ 2, Educators should guide the pro-
gram, since it is so essentially edu-
cational in character.

3. There should be a_ pooling of
community assets for recreation, in-
cluding school grounds and build-
ings, armories, church recreation
halls, and the like.

4. The program should be for all—
boys and girls, and adults, too.

5. The program should be for the
whole year; after-school

' playgrounds.

6. The program should be tax-sup- |

ported.

Mr. Anderson suggested that the
_ growing demand for the use of school
| properties for community recrea-
| tional and physical educational pro-
‘jects demanded that educators
study the added problems of admin-
istration, the question of leadership
that the extra-curricular activities
should have, and the matter of fi-

nancing the program. Should the.

added cost of light and heat and

custodial service be provided in the
school budget, or should there be a|
rental charge to cover actual costs?

The speaker added that whoever
conducted the program should con-
sider the wishes of the community.
A school curriculum, he said, could
be laid down, and the children be
required to follow it, but a recreation
program, to be most successful, must
supply community wants and needs,
_and not be a program handed down
by someone above,

and vice-president for the central |

 

play-|
grounds are as important as vacation.

 

 

AthleticSkill

Is Cultural ©
De. C. H. McCloy Sees

Great Satisfaction
In Sport

A perfectly executed play in tennis,

golf, or basketball may give the
player just as much satisfaction as |
the reading of Carlyle, and the one is
just as cultural as the other, accord-
ing to Dr. C. H. McCoy of the Uni-
versity of Iowa, president of the
American Physical Education Asso-
ciation, speaking at the opening ses-
sion of the state educational summer
conference at the University.

“Just as there is no cultural value
in trying to read a foreign language
with two fingers in the dictionary,
but a satisfaction that is cultural
comes when we can read well enough
to get the flavor of the language, so is
there satisfaction and cultural value
in physical skills,

 

| “T recall a tennis game in which I
hit the ball with the wood and it |
_ struck the net, finally going over, by |
accident, for my point. Again, I
struck the ball with full force, ex-
actly with the center of the racquet,
-and although two inches out of
bounds and opponent's point, I fhelt .
the thrill of a well made shot. :

“As teachers of physical education
we should begin early to teach those
physical skills that will be useful
later, such as poise and posture, both
for sitting and standing. We should
teach even the children how to han-
dle their bodies efficiently for games
and for the routine movements. i

“Why should it be necessary for a
varsity basketball coach to teach
fundamental footwork to his play-
ers? As a child, that player should].
have played tag, and other games to
develope nimbleness and quickness
of movement. Such physical skill is
highly essential in these days of
darting automobiles.”

Dr. McCloy urged improvement in
teaching of physical education
courses, not only “vertically” within
the subject itself, but “horizontally”
to show the part that well developed
physical being had in the enjoyment
‘of the more academic but, to hi
mind, no more cultural subjects.

“After all, it would be better t
‘raise a million people ten “culture
feet” than to raise 100 persons
thousand “culture-feet,” he said.