and Germany the span of life is not quite as long as it is with us. In India it is not half so long. People live longer where there is education, industry, temperance, and good character, and where governments help to preserve life.

TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND DISCUSSION

1. Who is the school doctor in your community? What are his chief duties? Have you any school nurses? What are their duties? 2. Do you think that schools, churches, and theaters should be closed at the time of an epidemic? Why? Who should do this? Where do they get their power?

3. Give three reasons why your school should be equipped with drinking fountains.

4. Look up the story of the discovery of the cause of yellow fever and report it to the class.

5. What are your local rules and regulations concerning the building of tenements? If you live in the country, what are the ordinances of a near-by city or town on this matter?

6. Try to visit your local filtering plant and report on this visit to your class.

7. Bring in either a newspaper clipping or a good quotation showing the work your city does to help protect the health of its people.

8. Find out how health is safeguarded by law in your state in both stores and factories.

9. Give reasons for each of the following rules in the health game. (a) Take a full bath more than once a week.

(b) Brush the teeth at least once every day.

(c) Sleep long hours with windows open.

(d) Drink plenty of milk each day, but no coffee or tea.

(e) Eat some vegetables or fruit every day.

(f) Drink at least four glasses of water a day.

(g) Play part of every day out of doors.

10. Have you a Health Crusaders organization in your school or some other organized means of preserving sound health? In what various ways can you, as a group, aid in the safeguarding of health?

11. Organize your class into a Health Committee and report on what is being done in your community for protecting health.

12. What is the danger of insanitary labor conditions to the health of a nation?

13. Why should every community be familiar with the conditions under which its food supply is made?

14. Why should the American people concern themselves with the working conditions and cleanliness of Chinese or Hindu workers in their own countries?

SUGGESTED READINGS FOR COMMITTEE REPORTS

1. Haskin's The American Government, Chapter XV, shows what the federal government is doing to safeguard health. Following this report a discussion may well ensue as to how the class as a whole may best meet its responsibility to the public in the matter of health.

2. Assign Chapter XXIX of Tuft's The Real Business of Living: Conditions and Influence in the City. This chapter deals with city markets, factories, homes, and their relation to health. Compare the condition there pictured with those in your own local community.

3. Elson's Child History of the United States gives an interesting account of the great sanitary victory in the Panama Canal zone under Dr. Gorgas.

4. Towne's Social Problems, Chapters III, IV, and V, deals with the subjects of Child Labor, Women in Industry, and the Sweating System. The influence of these movements on health should be brought out in the reports.

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

1. Wells' Outline of History gives a clear description of the Black Death and its causes, in the chapter on The Renascence of Western Civilization.

2. The early chapters of Roosevelt's Autobiography tell of his successful efforts to regain health and build up a strong body.

3. Morehouse and Graham's American Problems, Chapter V, tells of Nineteenth Century Progress.

4. The Americanization of Edward Bok: Chapter XXX.

5. Leavitt and Brown's Elementary Social Science: Chapter IX, Promotion of Public Health the Cure for Disease.

6. Williamson's Readings in American Democracy, Chapter XIX, treats of the prevalence of serious illness and of undue fatigue; of the money value of increased vitality; of minimum standards for child and woman laborers; of workmen's compensation for injury, etc.

7. Hygea-A Journal of Individual and Community Health will be found valuable. The teacher may be able to secure access to this magazine through a physician in the community.

CHAPTER IV
RECREATION

"Recreation is intended to the mind, as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt. He, therefore, that spends his whole time in recreation, is ever whetting, never mowing; his grass may grow and his steed starve: as, contrarily, he that always toils and never recreates, is ever mowing, never whetting; laboring much to little purpose. As good no scythe as no edge. Then only doth the work go forward, when the scythe is so seasonably and moderately whetted, that it may cut, and so cut that it may have the help of sharpening." -Bishop Hall

Athletes from all the leading nations of the world assembled in France in the summer of 1924 to compete for first place in the different athletic games. In these athletic contests, called the Olympic games, the athletes from this country won a total of 217 points. The athletes of no other single country won a total of more than fifty-eight points in the same sports. We lead the world in strong, athletic young men and women. The care we give the health of American children and the ardent love of so many Americans for outdoor sports both contribute to healthy, vigorous manhood and womanhood. This physical fitness is due largely to the belief of Americans in play for children and in wholesome recreation for all.

It is not enough to cure diseases, as we found in the preceding chapter. It is better first to prevent all the ill health we can. The farmer, the factory employee, the road maker-all of us-must not only have clean, sanitary conditions under which to live and to work, but we must have some means of recreation when this work is finished. The eight hour day leaves us more and more leisure to use wisely or foolishly. Eating, sleeping, and working-there is still

a considerable part of the day free for self-improvement and recreation. How wise it is to use this leisure time in such ways that health is guarded and improved, not broken down by foolish pleasures!

Have you ever thought what the word "recreation"

AN AMERICAN ATHLETE WINNING IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES OF 1924 F. Morgan Taylor of Grinnell College, Iowa, winning the final of the 400 meter hurdle race at Paris in the world's record time of 52% seconds. means? It means re-creation. When you have worked hard for several hours you are partly dead. You have used up your energy faster than you have made it, and you need to be re-created.

But unless you are very tired, something besides absolute rest will be best for you. It may be some game or sport that will start your blood flowing faster, cause you to use different

muscles, and make you breathe deeply of the fresh air. For one who has done hard muscular work all day, a seat on a bench in the park, with a good band playing, may give the recreation he most needs.

Recreation a Community Problem. Recreation has become a community problem. Recreation means relaxation

Girls' day at the Municipal Swimming Pool, Brookline, Mass.

from the strenuous work of the day. It means preparation for the next day's toil. It does not mean amusement alone. That may be obtained at the cheap vaudeville theater or over the pool table. It means more than that. It means play-organized, well-planned play-that brings into use little-used muscles, that develops rapid thinking, that re