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| Maude haves, the great English woman sociologist, said,
wate: You cannot break Nature's laws, but you can hreak yourself against
Nature's laws. Unquote. :

You may lost money, friends, power, sree tien and even reputation,
but if you have health and courage you can regain lost treasures, climb the
heights again and look the sun in the face, But when health is gone, money, power,
prestige and friends cannot save you. Nature has decredd that man must work in
order to be health, and work must be such as to provide plenty of mental and
physical exercise properly proportioned, or the individual mst arrange his
living outside of working hours to get the needed mental and physical activities
in weber %o avoid a loss in health and happiness. A man who does not work at all
soon finds himself slipping on life's highway. Any faculty which is not used ,
‘tends to deteriorate. But the man who works too hard is undermining his health
and wrecking his life. Safety lies in pursuing the middle course of work and
play happily sctaaatl ama Measure and proportion. The man who does not obtain
both mental and physical exercise in his daily work and refuses to obtain it in .
some form of recreation has no one to blame but himself if the bloom of health. :
fades from his euch. The human system cannot stand a steady diet of hard work
and no playe Abolish play and you would destroy happiness, outlaw laughter and
you transform life into a gloomy funeral march from the cradle to the grave.

We need teachers in our publie schools who have vision, energy,
personality and vibrant health. In my opinion, teachers should be examined for
clivetenl detiete wel petised fron those teaching until they regain their physical
fitness. We have too many teachers in our schools and sitleces who have embalming

fluid in their veins instead of Blood. It is altogether desirable to have in