urban, in every state in the Union.

II. That legislation, similar in purpose and scope to the
provisions and requirements in the laws recently enacted in
California, New York State, and New Jersey, is desirable in every
state, to provide authorization and support for state-wide
programs in the health and physical education field.

III. That the United States Bureau of Education should be
empowered by law, and provided with sufficient appropriations, to
exert adequate influence and supervision in relation to a
nationwide program of instruction in health and physical
education.

IV. That it seems most desirable that Congress should give
recognition to this vital and neglected phase of education, with
a bill and appropriation similar in purpose and scope to the
Smith-Hughes Law, to give sanction, leadership, and support to a
national program of health and physical education; and to
encourage, standardize, and, in part, finance the practical
program of constructive work that should be undertaken in every
state.

V. That federal recognition, supervision, and support are
urgently needed, as the effective means, under the Constitution,
to secure that universal training of boys and girls in health and
physical fitness which are equally essential to efficiency of all
citizens both in peace and in war.

=By five national organizations=

In December, 1918, five national organizations, assembled in regular
annual meeting, adopted resolutions which read in part as follows:

First: That this Society shall make every reasonable effort to
influence the Congress of the United States and the legislatures
of our various states to enact laws providing for the effective
physical education of all children of all ages in our elementary
and secondary schools, public, institutional and private, a
physical education that will bring these children instruction in
hygiene, regular periodic health examinations and a training in
the practice of health habits with a full educational emphasis
upon play, games, recreation, athletics and physical exercise,
and shall further make every possible reasonable effort to
influence communities and municipalities to enact laws and pass
ordinances providing for community and industrial physical
training and recreative activit