oughening Up
OF r Collegians

By Mitt Dran Hi.
ASHINGTON. (AP) — With
“peacetime military training

and physical fitness legislation be-
fore Congress, sentiment is growing
among the legislators in favor of
incorporating army “toughening-
up” methods—including obstacle
courses—into college. curricula.

Representative Carlson of Kansas,
Republican, who: reports the spread
of this opinion in Congress, says:

“We ought to have the benefit of
the army’s experience as the basis of
whatever we do in the future in
physical fitness and military educa-_|‘
tion programs.”

Carlson cites specifically the ex-
cellent results obtained by the army
in the use of obstacle courses.

One = such course, - considered
among the best, is at Camp Robin-
son, Ark, The program in operation
there would be available to schools
and colleges.

Developed by Infantry Col. Pres-
ton B. Waterbury, the Camp Robin-
son program has been tested in pre-
paring overseas-bound replacements
for fighting divisions. _

Brig. Gen. Henry P. Perrine, com-
mander of the infantry replacement‘
{training center at Camp Robinson,
and many other army officials who
have studied the plan in operation
are in complete accord as to its
value—for .wartime training of] j
fighting men now, and possible use
in physical conditicning of high
school and college students after the
war.

The Camp Robinson conditioning
program itself is primarily designed
to prepare men to meet enemy sol-
diers. But it can be adapted to
answer the nation’s needs for an
uplift of the physical standards that
caused more than 4 million young

men be rejected for military}.