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from the temptations of the mind through the submergence of the body.
Thus some of your were "saved" and thus some are engaged in the process
in the name of physical education. It may not appear on the surface; but
it is an undertone of defense.

(2) Source of Income. Since the admonition to Adam to earn
his livelihood with the sweat of his brow, his descendents engaged in the
struggle for existence have been going him one better: they earn with the
sweat of the entire body. Hunting, fishing, agriculture, commerce, industry,
and finance offer the means of subsistence to many. A few are engaged in the
professions to guarantee their source of income. With the extension of the
educational opportunities to the masses, the school teacher has become one
of the professional group; hence the increasing number of prospective teachers
of both sexes. Other opportunities failing, school teaching offers a sure
source of income.

I shell not be missing the mark in stating that many flirt with
the field of physical education as a source of livelihood to which the holders
of athletic scholarships in our educational institutions and those engaged in
teaching on one side, and the professional athletes on the other, are living
witnesses. Fast running legs, straight pitching arms, hard batters, deliberate
punchers, tacklers, grapplers, rhythmically swinging bodies and flexible joints
are utilized as capitel in the struggle for income. Even certain educational
administrators dengle the $10,000-75,000 annual contracts as baits before
the growing adolescents. Coaches receive higher salaries than their colleagues
on the teaching steff and greater recognition; athletes are feted while the
hesebeiee chee There is money in physical education. This view has

become a traditional stereotype which attracts many men and women to the field