ects and to attend to physical needs._

The advantages of _getting things done_ over _doing things_ have been
repeatedly emphasized. In smaller cities and in rural districts it is
particularly important for schools to get things done better by
existing local agencies, such as churches, health and street-cleaning
departments, hospitals, clinics, medical and sanitary societies, trade
unions, young people's societies, and women's clubs. Where parents who
have been followed up and taught, obstinately or ignorantly refuse to
attend to their children's needs, the segregation of the physically
defective or needy will encourage the cooeperation of children
themselves in persuading parents to act intelligently for the child's
sake. No child wants to remain "queer" or "dopey" or behind his peers.
The city superintendent of schools for New York City has asked for laws
compelling parents to permit operations and punishing them for
neglecting to take steps, within their power, to remove physical
defects discovered at school.

[Illustration: TEACHING A MOTHER TO CARE FOR ONE CHILD INSURES
BETTER CARE FOR ALL HER CHILDREN]

7. _Physiological age should influence school classification and school
curriculum._ On this subject the studies of Dr. C. Ward Crampton,
referred to in the chapter on Vitality Tests, are invaluable and as
convincing as they are revolutionary. Scientists accept his proof that
our present high school curriculum is ill adapted to a large proportion
of children; the "physiologically too young" drop out; only the
physiologically mature succeed. The two physiological ages should be
given different work. Children whose bodies yearn for pictures,
muscular and sense expression, should be given a chance in school for
normal development. Analysis should wait for action. Organized play and
physical training antedated physical examination in our schools. Like
the curriculum they often disregard physiological age, doing harm
instead of good. Facts as to physical condition and physiological
development would enable us to utilize the momentum of these two to
broaden school hygiene and to insure proper physical supervision. Only
good would result from adopting Leipsic's plan of having school
children examined without clothing, in the presence of parents if
parents desire. Expensive? Not so expensive as high school "mortality"
due to maladjusted curriculums that force the great majority of boys
and girls to drop out befo