ies for all classes and ages of
society.

Second: That this Association shall make persistent effort to
influence state boards of education, or their equivalent bodies,
in all the states of the United States, to make it their
effective rule that on or after June, 1922, or some other
reasonable date, no applicant may receive a license to teach any
subject in any school who does not first present convincing
evidence of having covered in creditable manner a satisfactory
course in physical education in a reputable training school for
teachers.

Third: And that this Association hereby directs and authorizes
its president to appoint a committee of three to take such steps
as may be necessary to put the above resolutions into active and
effective operation, and to cooperate in every practical and
substantial way with the National Committee on Physical
Education, the division of physical education of the Playground
and Recreation Association of America, and any other useful
agency that may be in the field for the purpose of securing the
proper and sufficient physical education of the boys and girls of
to-day, so that they may to-morrow constitute a nation of men and
women of normal physical growth, normal physical development and
normal functional resource, practicing wise habits of health
conservation and possessed of greater consequent vitality, larger
endurance, longer lives and more complete happiness--the most
precious assets of a nation.

=By the United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board=

In January, 1919, the United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene
Board suggested the following organization of a department of hygiene
for the purpose of establishing such a department in at least one
normal school, college, or university training school for teachers in
each state of the Union.

SUGGESTED ORGANIZATION OF A DEPARTMENT OF HYGIENE

I. _Division of Informational Hygiene._ (Stressing in each of its
several divisions with due proportion and with appropriate
emphasis, the venereal diseases, their causes, carriers, injuries,
and prevention):

(_a_) The principles of hygiene. Required of all students at least
twice a week for at least four terms.

(1) General hygiene. (The agents that injure health, the carriers
of disease, the contribut