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tradition, said that "big business had run away with tho ball". In the begin=

ning of the NRA, President Roosevelt said over tho radio that "All of my

 p3behes wi11 not be strikes. Sono nocessabily will be balis, but that will

not keep me from endcoavoring to throw stilikes.” To any boy or man who has
played baseball that figure of speech will readily be undorstood.

He Ge Wells, only recently has said: "I doubt if our common man will
bore himself with sport as his predecessor does at the present time. That is
a passing phase duc to the onsct of unforeseen leisure. Our common citizen
still will be a worker, but neither a toiler nor a slave."

The Englishman's slogan, "It isn't cricket", is taken very soriously
by the English people. Only throe days ago an outstanding British statesman
declared that had Hitler and Mussolini played cricket the world's debacle in
Europe would not be facing those nations.

Another significant English slogan is "the Battle of Waterloo was
won on the cricket fiolds of Sion and Rugby."

Some of our educators feel that the athletic tail is wagging the
educational dog, and undoubtedly there can be too mich emphasis upon certain
gamese But I do not belicvoe that we can omphasize too strongly upon our youth
the value and the necessity of play. Only recently I heard Dr. C. He McCloy,
head of the physical cducation department, and in charge of othletic rescarch
at the Stato University of Iowa, say that basketball os a game has covery
possible ingrediont in it necossary for the educeble child. At the samo
national meeting I hoard a school superintonicont, a college president, and a
woman director of physical education say the same thingce

The Kansas Health and Physical Education Associction, an association