RADIO PROGRAM

PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR HEALTH
May 12, 1938

"The future of Physical Education as o Vocation For the College Girl"

The late Dre Re Tait McKenzie said - "As we watch the annual tide of American
youth moving out of the colleges ready to take the placos of veterans who have
fallen out of the older ranks, it is natural thet we should ask ourselves what
kind of boy and girl our melting pot is producing and whether the type is chang~
inge Ono year's graduating class may not seom much different from the class of
the year before, yet wo camot help noticing that the typicel graduate of today
is not merely a reincarnation of his or her predecessor of ten, twenty, or more
years agoe" = but is a decided improvement over the oidor generation. Nover
before have as many young women sought careers as are seeking thom tolads
Ninety thousand new teachers come each year to our public schoolse Once in
from cight to twelve years tho personnel] of our one million of teaching force
changese Women comprise the larger group of our teachers today. Hence it is
perfectly natural for the carcer girl to think of tho new physical educetion as
a goal for hor carcer es

We have been experiencing in large dosos two kinds of leisure, "forced
leisure" which comes as the result of unemployment; and "earned leisure", which
comes at the end of the day, or at the ond of tho wook, or during vacation, or
upon retirmont from work. With the shortening of the working day and the worke
_ ing week, wo shall undoubtedly have more and moro of the o-rnec loisuree Never
has thore been so much talk about leisuro. Personally most of us are probably
concerned more with the earned leisure but educationally we cannot oscape tho
problems and the opportunities of leisure in some form or anothere

What a nation or an individual doos with thoir leisure time dotermines
the charactor of the one involved. Soe lodsuro and how wo spend it becomes of
paramount importance to us educationally and morallye It concerns not only

the individual but the home, and tho community, tho church, the governnont, the