Allen -- Right, and it might interest businoss and professional mon to know that the
correct sitting posturo has a very practical value in the days! routine.
Because a good sitting posture inecreascs efficiency and staminc. VWhon cal-
lers sec you dynamically poised for work they state their business quickly
and interviews do not drag unicss you change your position and lean back in
your chair, when almost anything can happen.

Dunkel-- Which is a way of saying that there are economic valucs in good posture, too.
Of ccurse I belicve thet. We've already discussod posture in relation to
hygienic, acsthovic anc suciul velucs, but I can see it roy also play its
part in the business of getting the job dcne.

Allen -- I often notice the discouragedperson walkin: down tho stroot. Fis shouldors
are drooped, his hend is down, he amblos along aimlessly. Faulty posture
is to the human body what poor enginevoring is to o bridge. On the other
hand, note tho successful business man. He has a jaunty stride, ho has a
salutation - a cheery word for those he meets, and « handelasp that denotes
buoyancy. It pays to look well, aside from a health standpoint. Proper
posture enables us not merely to look well anc move gracefully, but it also
conserves the reservoirs of cnergy that seep away unconsciously through com-
mon postural defects. Good posture is more than morcly standing straight.
In balance, 211 parts of the body, including tho internal organs, are hold
in working position. Good posture cugments mental buoyancy. It reflects
good fellowship that bogets the more choery response from the other fellow.
I often think of that old threadbaro expression, "it takes 13 muscles or
the face to smile and 65 muscles to frown", A “Hello Week" in our town and
on our campus would make more montal medicine than all the psychiatrists and
physicians could generate in o month. after ell, we strive for social ap-
proval, and by having a friendly word for our passing neighbor we definite-
ly inform that individual that he is quite satisfactory.

Dunkel --Before we must lcave Drs Allen, I'd like your views on just one more angle
of this posture picture. We who work in oducation through the physical self
are naturally intorested in body postures.. I have fomd in my contacts with
eirls and women that the aesthetic benefit from a well-poised body graccful-
ly carried has the greatest appoal for inducing thom to make the effort to
hold themselves upe I'm reminded of a story in which o woman related the
coincidence of meeting an old acquaintance whom she hadn't secon for two
years, Sho was astonished at the great chanse in her friend for, as she
put it, tho friend had grow "not so much older, but so much younger", A
few questions satisfied her that the answor was not due to face-lifting ,
glance treatments, nor falling in love. The acquaintance admitted all sno
hed done was go to & gyms She had found a secret that few people realizoe
It isn't the face which crows old, but the body which slumps anc segs anc
develops the middle-aged spread and the housekeeper's Croope If we can
manage to provent this, and we can by exercise, our bodies retain their
youthful lines into old age. If women only knew that nature has provided
an abdominal support with four mighty layers of two-way-stretch musclose
What a corset! And if this one is kept strong and supple as in youth they
would never need another. It is whon the abdominals give way the whole
body sagse

Allen -- I can easily s¢e why women, with their intorest in retaining youth, in woar-
ing clothes woll and in developing charm, will feke the effort to achieve
a posture that contributes to these desires. 1 shouldn't say that men as a
group wero entirely immune to these samo appeals in doveloping strong body
positions. But for greater than these is the man's pride in his efficioncy
and ability to accomplish his objective. You know, man is a proud and dom-
ineering individual, so tho sociologists toll us. A vibrant posture definite-