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_eonfidence and hope.

dent and stanch, who may be

6

SIDNEY AND ISLANDS REVIEW, SIDNEY, B. C., FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1913.

ATRIBUTES OF
DISCUSSED

OF MAN’S MAKE-UP

BY A PHYSICIAN

rit- |
ecapacity—three at-

Mechanical efficiency, physical
and mental
of man’s

co-ordinately

ness

tributes make-up—when

a veri- |
OF
the first is of primary importance. On
it the superstructure—man—is
This means that all the
operate to influence the future life are
largely but a reflection
chanical ability. For this
ciety has a right to require each of its
to start the battle of life
with a mechanical efficiency as nearly
perfect as possible. It surely should
have as much right to perfect itself
mechanically as it has to require me-
chanical efficiency in the construction
of its dreadnoushts and gereat ocean
liners.

In attempting to meet the definite
demand which society has a right to
make on each of its individual mem-
bers, the state is vitally interested. It
recognizes that it cannot bring each of
its individual members up to the acme
of usefulness in society and the com-
mereial world if they are handicapped
by a diseased or enfeebled body.

It is becoming more apparent each
year that physical well-being and
mental ~progress are inseparable. An
important feature of the state’s work
then is to give the child in school a
Sanitary, healthful environment. Means
for examination for the various dis-
eases of childhood and physical de-
fects should be provided. Provision
for the detection and control of com-
municable diseases and for the protec-
tion of the pupils from diseases un-
recognized by the laymen and teachers
is all-important.

In practically all of our cities of any
Size the school board recognize the
need of health work at school. For the
purpose of developing a strong, virile
constitution in our school children they
have provided playgrounds. Here
games, play and the various forms of |

working make
human dreadnought. }

table these,

built. |
5 |
forces’ which |

of the me-

reason So-

|
members

physical education are indulged in and |
enjoyed by the pupils. Experience has
shown that this phase of our school
work has developed individuality. It
makes a child self-reliant. It discovers
him to himself. It gives him courage, |
It lays a foun-|
dation for poise, balance and steadi-
ness. It provides for him a
iframe in which to develop and house a
strong mentality. It gives him a strong
frame mechanically and physically to
resist the inroads of disease in the
years to come.

It would seem that “if the state has
the right to demand mental fitness, it |
has an equal right to demand physical
fitness. If it has a right to prevent the
contagion of ignorance, it has the right
to prevent the contagion of disease and
body neglect.”’

To accomplish this end it is neces-
Sary to begin at the cradle as nearly as
is practicable. And it is also just as
necessary to attribute
where an effort is being made to pro-
duce the useful, well-balanced man as

strong

develop one

any other attribute.

in a harmonious working way the es-

Getting together |

What constitutes |

sential attributes is
the forceful, independent main results.

Charles Wagner has tersely set forth
of procedure the following
words: “Let us bring up our children
simply. I had almost said rudely. Let |
us entice them to exercise that gives

privation.

a plan in

them endurance—eyen to
Let them belong to thase who are bet-
ter trained to fatigue the earth
for a bed than to the comforts of the}
table and the of 50
we shall make men of them, indepen-

and

couches luxury.
counted

|
|
See
Tor |

on, who will not sell themselves
pottage, and who will have withal the
faculty of being happy.”

In the great of life
perhaps is a greater handicap
physical disadvantage. Where there is
defective physical health, learning and
training become irksome and the high- |
est type of individual cannot result no
matter what the facilities for impart-
ing information and knowledge are. To
obviate this social! evil and environ= |
ment society has a right to demand |

game nothing

than

such ehanges from time to time in our
methods of education and vocational
training as will bring its individual
members a well-developed mechanical
and physical efficiency to care for and
house their mental capacity.

At the outset nature, in constructing
the human body, reached the highest
possible in the
bone is fitted with

mechanical
Each

efficiency
framework.

|
an exactness and a nicety not possibly

attainable by man in the construction
Byen in
our dreadnoughts, where the parts of

of his most perfect machine.

the great propelling force—the engine
—are centred, the bearings and the
points are not, cannot be, fitted with
such and perfection as the
joints in the human skeleton. In the
construction of the great ocean liners
and dreadnoughts the engines that
furnish- power for driving them
press the highest type of engineering
fitness and skill that man is capable
of accomplishing. Each Jever, each
fear, each bearing and each bolt is
made reference to micrometer
measurements. But the micrometer is
Subject to error; nature is not.

The highest type of efficiency which
the most skilled engineer may express
in the construction of, say, a spring,
looks puny when stacked up alongside
of nature in the construction of the
arch of the foot, which, after all, is
only a spring. Bach time the weight
of the body is placed on the arch of
the foot it extends and expands, only
to contract and relax when the weight
is withdrawn. There is no other part
of the human framework, perhaps:
where such perfect rhythm is expressed
as in the movements and play of the
bones which enter into the makeup of
the of the foot, unless it is the
heart.

In the construction of the mechani-
cal spring, all improved
methods, it is necessary to harness it,
and, in some way or other, limit it in
its exposure and use and observe ex-
traordinary care to keep it from break-
ing. Im contrast to this, witness the
arch of the foot responding to every
cajl with an accuracy that is scarcely
understandable and a reliability that is
perfect, though ofttimes it is harnessed
in an extremely impossible shape.

Mechanical inefficiency is respon-
sible to a very large degree for that
great army of school children suffer-
ing from physical defects, many of
which are completely remediable, prac-
tically all of which are partially so.

Commenting on the health problems
in education, in an article published by
the United States Bureau of Educa-
tion, Dr. Thomas D. Wood says:

“There are approximately 20,000,000
pupils in the schools of the United
States to-day.

“Of these 300,000 to 400,000 have or-
ganic heart disease.

“Probably 1,000,000 at least
have had, tubercular disease

accuracy

cx

with

areh

with our

have
now, or
of the lungs.

“About 1,000,000 have spinal curya-
ture, nat foot or some other moderate
deformity serious enough to interfere
to some degree with health.

“Over 1,000,000 have defective hear-
ing.

“About
vision.

“About
malnutrition, in
part at least, to one or
other defects enumerated.

5,000,000 have defective

5,000,000 are suffering from

many eases due, in

more of the

“Over 6,000,000 haye enlarged ton-
sils, adenoids or enlarged cervical
glands which need attention,

“Over 10,000,000 have defective teeth
which are potentially, if not actually,
detrimental to health.

“Several millions of the children pos-
sess cach two or more of the
capping defects.”

In view of the information disclosed
by these statistics it will be seen that
a great work is necessary if we are to
< me-
chanical efficiency. effi-
ciency is all important, not only in the
gruelling campaign the foreed
mareh in actual active warfare, but it
is also essential to the success, health,

maintain the proper standard of
Mechanical

and

| some fatal malady immediately avails

handi- |

comfort and happiness of that great
ariny of men and women who are daily
taxed by the requirements of a busy
commercial life.

People are beginning to realize

The soldier who is exposed to the h = : d =
elements and forced to take long t at it pays to a vertise.
marehes is not more in need of me- =

fit-
ness than the bookkeeper who sits at

chanical perfection and physical

his desk or the sewing girl who direct
In the latter
to physical

the course of the needle.

cases, where indifference

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