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it has become necessary for the school and the community to assume a part of the
training for leisure-time needs of the American youth.

All indications point to the fact that the schools in the future will be held
responsible to a greater extent for the training and developing of attitudes and
ideals and the teaching of skills that will have a leisure-time carry-over into
adult life. It will then become the responsibility of the home, school and communi-
ty, working in cooperation with one another, to provide ways and means for the pro-
per functioning of these skills, attitudes and ideals, thus leading to a cooperative
society of happier and more useful citizens.

Guest Editor

Our guest editor for this month is Miss Edna McCullough. Miss McCullough is
Past President of the Central District Physical Education Association and has also
served as Secretary~Troasurer of the Kansas State Health and Physical Education As-
sociation. At present she is Chairman of the Demonstration Committee of the State
Association, This Committee was appointed for the purpose of aiding in the develope
ment of worthwhile and educational demonstrations and exhibitions of health and phys-=
ical education materials and activities in the Kansas schools. Health and Physical
Education, in common with all branches of education, needs wise publicity. Demonstra-
tions are a splendid medium for this purpose.

THE PRESENT TREND IN DEMONSTRATION
by
Edna McCullough
Head of Department of Physical Education for Women, K.S.T.C., Emporia

The large spectacular type of demonstration of the physical education program
seems to be a thing of the past. In reviewing the current practices in Physical Ed-
ueation since 1933, there is little evidence of the old, colossal exhibition. How-
ever, demonstrations and exhibits still have a prominent place in the physical educa-
tion set up.

The values of the old type demonstration are set forth by several authorities
as follows:

1. To sell the physical education program to the community.

2, To provide opportunity for students to appear before the public,

5. To develop interest in the student body.

4, To provide entertainment for the community.

5. To raise money.

To a great extent these values still hold good, although the emphasis takes a
different turn.

1. We still need to sell our program to the community, but from a more educae-

tional angle,
2. We want to give opportunity for our students to be able to appear before the
public with poise, but cur emphasis is now on developing his leadership
ability instead of his “show off" que lities.
3. We develop the interest of the student body by educating them to the skills
and fine points of the physical activities,
4, We are now attempting to socialize the people of the community by giving
them opportunity for personal participation and education rather than enter-
tainment, :
5, The exhibition is no lon~er just a means of raising money. Much less money
is spent on costumes, advertising, and putting on of the present type of
demonstrations,
On the whole demonstrations and exhibits are now less of a show and more of an
educational procedure,

here is the open house type of program in which, on a stated evening, the whole
department (and often the whole school) is thrown open for cbservation and the var-
ious activities are carried on in regular class procedure, Vory little extra practice
is necessary for this form. Opportunity may be given to the students to help plan