And standing out above all is this major principle: "No vitality should be taken out of a man by these setting-up exercises; he should not be tired out, but rather made ready for the regular work of the day." OUT-OF-DATE IDEAS This war in which we are engaged has brought to our people some all-compelling truths.

And the greatest of these is that our men, the flower of our racial stock, are deficient physically when put to the test before examining-boards.

When one sees some two thousand men examined by draft boards to secure two hundred men for our army, as happened in some cases, when one reads that in a physical examination for the sanitary police force in Cleveland thirty-seven out of forty-two women passed and only twenty-two men out of seventy-two, one is ready indeed to believe that we have failed to produce men who can be called upon when the need arises to defend our country.
[Illustration: INCORRECT POSITION, SHOWING HOW MOST MEN SLACK IN SWEDISH EXERCISES BY LETTING THE BACK BEND] Our athletic sports have produced the right spirit, as the rush of athletes to the service has shown.

But our calisthenics, our general building-up exercises have apparently failed in the physical development of our youth.

They are antique.