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This booklet is dedicated to the part you young people are privileged to
play in defense of your Uncle Sam. It is presented to you at this time
to indicate the special significance which National Posture Week holds
for all of us this year.

Last year we stressed the need for building better health through good
posture in sports and daily tasks as a preparedness duty. We showed you
how good posture, wisely chosen food and exercise help promote better
health, enable you to do more and better work; make you more alert,
active and energetic—qualities absolutely necessary to defense in time of
war and to continued health in time of peace.

In ancient Greece a rigorous program of exercise in the open air and .
adherence to good posture was practised by old and young. It should be so
with us today, since a great many of our men have been rejected as unfit
until they have completed a course designed to build and harden muscles,
create vim, vigor, energy, courage and coordination of mind and body.

YOUR DUTY TO YOUR COUNTRY

On the opposite page are two figures. The one on the right, in slouched .
attitude, is symbolic of lack-of-alertness, of the defeatist—typical of weak- -
ness. On the left is the posture which conserves energy, stores up the
strength necessary to aid us in protecting our form of government which
has brought more good to more people than any other in history; strength
to defend it against,those who by words and acts seek to destroy it in order
to gain political power for themselves. As junior home-front soldiers, you
should consider it one of your most important duties to guard against the
activities of those who seek to destroy confidence in your
country and her Allies. Another is to follow a physical-fitness
program designed to build you into vigorous specimens —

 

 

 

 

The arrows indicate sets of important
muscles which must be kept strong.

 

Copyright 1942 — Samuel Highy Camp Institute for Better Posture