NEW HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION 

 UW TOOK EFFECT JULY 1, 1944 



The new Health Physical Education 

 *■ Law known as Senate Bill No. 396, 

 and passed during the 1943 session of 

 the state legislature, will be limited 

 in its effectiveness during the coming 

 year and for some time to come. The 

 act became effective, however, on July 

 1, 1944. 



The part of the law that requires 

 each pupil on starting to school or just 

 prior to that to have a thorough phys- 

 ical examination by a competent phy- 

 sician and to have additional physical 

 examinations at least every four years 

 thereafter, will be limited in effective- 

 « ness temporarily by the scarcity of doc- 

 tors. 



A second part of the law requires 

 that all pupils in public schools and 

 teachers' colleges shall, as soon as prac- 

 ticable, be required to engage daily 

 during the school day in courses of 

 physical education to the amount of 

 one full instructional period per day, 

 exclusive of recess and lunch periods; 

 or, where local conditions warrant an 

 exception, to employ 200 minutes 

 weekly distributed over a period of 

 three or four days for that purpose. 

 This law cannot be enforced satisfac- 

 torily until many more physical educa- 

 tion directors than are now available 

 return to the teaching field or new ones 

 are trained for the jobs. 



Pupils who object to physical exam- 

 inations on constitutional grounds are 

 required to present to the board of 

 education a statement of such objection 

 signed by a parent or guardian. They 

 are not released from the required par- 

 ticipation in physical education, how- 

 ever. 



Also pupils who do not pass the 

 physical examination are to be placed 

 in a special physical education class. 

 Parents are urged to correct all reme- 

 dial defects in their children as early 

 as possible. In most small schools it is 

 likely that those students who are 

 barred from participation in regular 

 physical education classes will receive 

 little or no attention. Either lack of 

 help on the faculty, class conflicts, or 

 lack of gymnasium space at the time 

 when they can meet will operate 

 against a program for the physically 

 handicapped. 



Since the new Health and Physical 

 Education Law carried no appropria- 

 tions with it, undoubtedly the parents 

 will have to bear the expense of the 

 physical examinations. In some cases 

 county school superintendents have al- 

 ready met with county medical associ- 



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ations to discuss the program and to 

 agree upon physicians' fees per child. 

 The intent of the new law is to build 

 health and physical education programs 

 in our schools that will rectify or elim- 

 inate remedial physical weaknesses 

 and that will build strong, healthy 

 bodies and minds. Health authorities 

 report that 25.4 of our young men, 

 18-19 years of age, have been rejected 

 for military service. Also it has been 

 found that in spite of interscholastic 

 sports programs and limited efforts to 

 meet minimum requirements of the 

 previous physical eaucation law, these 

 did not suffice to build shoulder, neck, 

 arm, upper trunk and leg muscles for a 

 good many of our boys and girls. 



Evidently, if and when these new re- 

 quirements can be put into operation 

 generally, there will be some hope for 

 better results. It is possible for a wide- 

 awake, inventive and energetic physical 

 education director to provide the kind 

 of program that will sell itself even to 

 hard-working farm boys because of its 

 value as muscular development. The 

 value of a good physical eaucation pro- 

 gram cannot be over-estimated. Past 

 experience has proved that a good, 

 well-rounded physical development 

 program ■ for boys should in addition 

 to the formal sports, include such ex- 

 ercises as tumbling, rope climbs, ladder 

 work, calisthenics, balancing, drills, 

 trapeze, rings, weights, wrestling, box- 

 ing, and perhaps even company com- 

 mand drill. Some schools have found 

 that the materials needed for the above 

 mentioned exercises can be secured and 

 placed in use for $100 or less. They can 

 be used in any gymnasium, and the 

 value derived merely as energy burners 

 during the noon hour, before and after 

 school, are ample compensations for 

 the cost of installation. Such physical 

 education programs have been found 

 to be very popular with school patrons. 



Girls, of course, should have a mod- 

 erate program including such exercises 

 as tumbling, calisthenics, folk dancing, 

 and sports. 



Standards of accomplishment should 

 be set up in each phase of exercises and 

 each pupil should be required to pass 

 a minimum number of tests in order to 

 qualify for credit in the courses. Some 

 hygiene might also be added. 



A group of varied exercises under 

 the direction of an enthusiastic physi- 

 cal education teacher goes a long way 

 toward securing 100 per cent coopera- 

 tion from the students. 



Recoid Nnmbei 1945 



Calendars Are Ordered 



A new record has been established in 

 the number of orders received for the 

 1945 lAA-Farm Bureau calendar from 

 97 County Farm Bureaus. Orders for 

 1945 calendars number 127,925 as com- 

 pared with 114,905 in 1944. This is 

 also the first time that all 97 County 

 Farm Bureaus have placed orders for 

 the lAA-Farm Bureau calendar. 



The 1945 calendar will be somewhat 

 similar to 1944 with the exception that 

 the numerals on each page will be 

 larger, and Kodachrome pictures in 

 full color of farm scenes are being used 

 in the illustrations instead of paintings. 



Women, Girls Detassel Corn 



The largest hybrid seed corn crop in 

 the history of the state — 84,000 acres" 

 — has been detasseled under ideal con- 

 ditions with the aid of Illinois women 

 and girls who deserve special recogni- 

 tion for their work, according to farm 

 labor officials and seedsmen. 



Records in the office of P. E. Johns- 

 ton, state supervisor of emergency farm 

 labor, show that 24,532 young people 

 were assigned to farm work this sum- 

 mer up to Aug. 1. Of this number, 

 thousands of girls and women worked 

 8 to 10 hours on day and night shifts 

 detasseling seed corn. Some were high 

 school girls, some teachers, others col- 

 lege students, nurses, factory workers, 

 librarians, secretaries, housewives, and 

 wives of servicemen. 



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Aug. 9, 1944 

 Mediterranean Area 

 Dear Editor: 



Will drop a few lines to let you 

 know I just received the July-August 

 edition of your wonderful magazine. I 

 want you to know I enjoy your maga- 

 zine very much. On ship we don't 

 get much reading material, so my buddy 

 from Avon, 111., is next to get your 

 magazine. I live in the community of 

 Kingston Mines, Peoria county, and I 

 imagine there are plenty of Rural 

 Youthers from there doing some great 

 4-H work. Am enclosing my new ad- 

 dress and hope you will send the maga- 

 zine to it as it will get to me a lot 

 quicker. 



Respectfully yours, 

 Herman Gohde 



(Editor's Note: We would like to hear 

 from more of the men in service in vari- 

 ous parts of the globe who are receiving 

 the lAA Record.) 



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