inat Constitutes an Adequate Physical Education Program
for the public Schools." AL

Address for Teachers Convention == Omaha, Nebraska

Last ~year: I rode to New York on the observation car with
a speaker who was to address the National Casket Manufacturers Associa-~
tion of America upon the subject "You Can't Bury Your Mistakes."
Certainly our mistakes do stalk us like the Four Horsemen of the Apo-
ecalypse. In the field of education our mistakes are still multiply-
ing and instead of the Four Horsemen they have become as the thunder-
ing herd. We have too many instructors in our educational systems who
are properly prepared academically but who have embalming fluid in
their blood vascular systems. Our boys need contact through their
growing period with virile men. Play and games form a medium of con-
tact between instructors and pupils.

Over twenty five years ago while coaching the Haskell Indians
I endeavored to impress upon the Indian boys that the ball that they
were playing with was theirs and for them to get it, even though the
other team possessed it. I did agree with them that although the
white man hd avolen their tami the white man official would not

steal the ball game.

In the early part of the season I explained to them that