The evening world. Newspaper, April 25, 1918, Page 16

oe ” (tm The Evening World, the exercises THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1918 | “THE DAILY DOZEN SET-UP”’---1. Why Be Old at Thirty, Fat at Forty, and at Fifty, Winded, Unable to Walk? ‘Walter Camp's Physical Exercises to Make Middle-Aged Mil- lions of Out-of-Condition Men and Women Physically Fit for America’s ‘‘Second Line of Defense.’ The Evening World to-day publishes the first instalment of an @rticle which will give to its readers Mr. Camp's “Shorthand Syatem” Of physical etercises, which he calls “the Daily Doren Set-Up,” designed to make us al fit for any duty to which our country may call us, The second and eoncluding instalment will be published on thie page next week, By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Coprright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), “cc ATURE never intended a man to be old at thirty, fat at forty, and at fifty dependent upon a trolley car if he has to go a mile,” says Walter Camp, veteran trainer of some of Amer- iica’s best athletes, physical instructor for the navy and Chairman of the , Committee on Physical Reserve of the National Security League, through which is being organized America’s second line of defense—the middle-aged millions left behind by the draft. To mobilize this great army of flabby, fat, short-breathed, out-of- condition men and women under the banners of Health and Efficiency fs the inspiring task which Mr. Camp and his associates have set them- selves. Working with him on the Committee on Physical Reserve are Dr. Dudley A. Sargent and Dr. L. B. Briggs of Harvard, William G. ‘Anderson and Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale, Dr. Harry Pratt Judson and “Dr. A. A. Stagg of the University of Chicago, Joseph E. Raycroft of the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities, former Am- bassador James W. Gerard, Prof. Frank W. Nicholson, Wesleyan Uni- versity;. Francis S. Bangs, and Paul D, Williams, Julian E. Myrick and Eewin Fuller Torrey of the United States National Lawn Tennis Assoc »téon. Also the Mayors of more than 300 cities are co-operating avith Mr. Camp in his efforts to prove to the man at the desk that he may be _ young, strong and physically fit, even if his birthdays have brought him fo the milestone of middle life. . A ae A YAS. west. CHEF SCOUT It tp for everybody that Mr, Camp Das designed “The Daily Dozen Set- Up,” the “shorthand system” of set- “ting up exercises which the Com- mittee on Physical Reserve of the National Security League is using ‘am ite Nation-wide campaign. The exercises require but ten minutes @ day and no apparatus. They are of equal value to lightwelghts and ‘0 heavyweights, to high executives ,and to their clerks. As described on hips, arms and hands hanging naturally, head erect and straight to the front. See Figure 1, Group I—1, Hands. The lead commands “Hands; ready; cross.” (At “cross,” arms are extended laterally and horizontally, palms down. See Figure 2.) The leader commands “Order: Hands.” (At “hands” the arms are brought back to @ position of atten- tion close to the sides. See Figure 1, Speclal care should be taken to see that whenever, throughout the exercises, this position is taken—as at the command completion of each exercise~full control {is retained over the arms, and the hands should not be allowed to elap against the | sides audibly.) The leader commands, “Order: Rest.” (At “rest” always return to @ position of attention, In this case there would be no change.) 2. Hips. The leader commands “Hips: Ready: Cross.” (At “hips,” the hands are placed on the hips with shoul- ‘ave to be performed in smal! groups, heith @ leader, since Mr. Camp be Weves that such work is more read- May done and more tenacious in Its 'qtip if performed in groups. But Bl the exercises are easy to learn, Jama have teen designed so that , where group work is impossible the ‘andividual may casily memorize them and practive them eight or ten minutes a day. , What will the Daily Dozen Set- Wp do for you? “It will give ex- actly the right amount of exercise wo every mu of the body,” con- @éently answers Mr. Camp; “will MR. CAMP’S EXERCISES—ILLUST RATED GG RATE > veree POsiTapM promote suppleness, € urance and ders, elbows and thumbs well back, eoordination. The shorthand method | See Figure 3.) of setting-up leaves men in an ex-| The leader commands “Order: hflarated condition, and, instead of | Rest.." taking anything out of them, pre 3. Head, pares the body for any kind of work The leader commands “Head; that is required in the service.” Ready; Cross; Order: Hips.” (At The manual of the Daily Dozen | pip Set-Up put out by the Committee on Physical, Reserve of the National Becurlty League divides the exer-| Pigure 4.) 4 elses as follows: 1. (1) Hands, (2)| The leader Hips, (2) Head; 1. (1) Grind, (2)| nest,” Grate, (3) Grasp; HI. (1) Crawl, Ourl, (3) Crouch; IV. Weave, (3) Wing ‘ the hands are placed behind the neck, index-fingertips Just touch- ing, and elbows forced back, See commands “Order 2) (1) Wave, (2) The above exercises should be ex- ecuted but a few times, as a prep- aration for the speed test. In this Each exercise starts from the po-|test, the preparatory com 1 “Or- @ition of Attention, which means] der” is omitted and the leader gives heels on the same line, feet turned) the command “Head,” “hips,"| out equally to form with each other ands,” &c,, in sharp succession, ean angle of 60 “degree knees yarying them, and occasionally re- straight without stiffuesy, body erect peating a command in a — cal- Ul . nm FO aK Sor ey CANVASS | _BIRMINGHA\ ALA» i Kf ui GE l JAMES E. WEST, NATIONAL CHIEF SCOUT EXECUTIVE, AND JAMES A. WILDER, CHIEF SEA SCOUT, | WHO TELL OF BOYS’ WAR ACTIVITIES HERE AND IN EU. Le Jardin Have You a Little “Jardin de Guerre” in Your de Guerre Backyard? No, It Isn’t What Yow Set a Rubber Plant In, It’s What You Plant—Well, Anyway, If You Don’t Want to Grow Dachshunds or Century Plants or Limburger in It, Buy Liberty Bonds! By Arthur (“Bugs”) Baer | ° Copyright, 1018, Ly Ue Prose Publishing Co, (Khe New York Evenivg World, | VEN after the war is cured, it is going to take a long time to heal the war gardena now busting out in all Uirections Uke elbows in the sub- | way. A war garden ts any plot of dirt—not on a small boy's neck— large enough r nA seed without compelling tt to sue for non- support. Any piece of ground where you can pound a seed In sideways witb! Q sledge hammer ts a jardin de guerre. Anything can bo planted in war gardens, from a eet of Lullshevik! whiskers to directions on bow toremove! the rumblo from # 1906 flivver without removing the flivver. } You can plant eliehtly overdue street car trensfers, tneligible pewter dimes, untenanted shoes, vacant sardine cana, hollow teeth and Kelly pool} pills in your Jardin de guerre, but remember this If you don't want the dachshund to be our National bird, buy a LIBERTY BOND, TR eee You don’t have to be a gardener to chaperon a war garden. In fact, boing a gardoner is an added handicap, A good bevel-edgod, double-decker, three-ply war gardener sould be a goulash of mecha jan, chiropodiat dynamiter hod carrier and teamster, He should be able to carve a his own vest without disturbing the early June prunes which ho planted upside down in the wrong month | An orthodox two-way war gardener doesn't have to know any more about vegetables than a hog does about Sunday, but he should know how seed back from his neighbor's chicke without being short changed, The chau ur of le jardin de guerre doesn’t require a vestful of farming dope to assist him in assisting the potato bugs to Kill the plants, but he should know how to cuas in some language that he can’t get fined for. He should be able to toss hollow tin cana over his shoulder for ten minutes without once coming up for air. And he should know that~ If you DON'T buy a bond you might ae well plant CENTURY PLANT'S tn your war garden, because that's how Iong the war will last, . The operator of @ jardin de guerre who receives his liveness to rnn trick vegetable sanitartum in the city limits does not have to be & graduate of some vegetable university, but be should be the owner of a pair of suspenders that w bust when he reaches over to drag a boll weevil away from North America, E\ven !f be doesn’t succeed in raising anything but the high cost of living, the war gardener {s a double-barreled philan- thropist, for he taxidermishly stuffs all the sparrowe with good seeds, and if it were not for him and his mice long rake, the worms would have to scratch thelr own backs. Even if a battle gardener doesn't know whioh ts the right end of a grass seed, he ought to be hep fo the fact that— Tf you don't want the lmburger to be our National flower, buy a bond, rene FINISH, culated to catch the unwary nap- | plete circle should be described at ping. each count.) Group I.—1, Grind, The leader commands “Reverse, The leader commands rind; |one to ten.” (At “reverse,” the same Ready: Cross: Pu ‘Purn.” (At| Process should be gone through, the circle being described in the oppo- site direction.) “turn,” the palms are turned up with backs of hands down and arms forced the same time the heels are raised | fou 3 one, two.” (At the last till the welght of the body rests| “grasp” the position “head” is taken. on the balls of the feet. 6eo|/See Figure 4, With head up and Figure 6. At “two” the arms arejeyes front and in time with the returned to “cro: as all air 18| leader's counting “one, two, threo, exhaled, and the heels are lowered|four the body 1s bent forward to a normal position, Care should] from the walst as far as possible, be taken to see that the arms are|See Figure 7, The body is returned not allowed to drop below the level| to upright in the same number of of the shoulders or to rise more/ counts, and at an unusually slow than 45 degrees. “one” is bent as far back ag posst- The leader commands ble from the waist, being returned to Rest.” upright at “two.” Care should be The arme should taken to sce that this motion is sus- lowered ten times. tained and not jerky.) | The leader commands | Rest.” “Order: be raised and | “Order: rasp. back as far as possible. See Figure The leader commands “Order: The leader commands. “Order; | Rest.” Grind, one, two, three, four, five, to] Ten circles are described in each ten.” (At “grind,” and in time with] direction the leader's measured counting, eir- cles of twelve-Inch diameter are de- &, Grate seribed with the fi ips which| ‘The leader commands “Grate; move forwerd and downward, then | Ready; Cross; Order; Grate; one, backward and upward, the arms re-|two.” (At the last “Grate,” and as maining stiff and pivoting from the|\the leader counts “one,” the arms shoulders. On the backward move-| are lowly raised, as a dec ment of the circle the arms should|{nhalation is taken, to an anglo of} be forced back to the limit. A com. 45 degrees from horizontal, At leader Cross The commands “Grasp: | Ready Order: Grasp: one,| repeated five times, tyto, threo, four; one, two, three, (To Be Continued) ¢ "Ss | curing scout masters, MT NY THURSDAY, A o., PRIL 25, 1918 Boy ‘Sea Sco | By Alex. Scouts of America, for these youngst to help win. they are doing, but when the censor: itounding revelations will be made “Not only are the Boy Scouts h sefiptions for the Liberty Loan, but | These lads are known as the Sea Sc jinch of the coast in their section, an, las he surely will, some day—they w The Sea Scouts in Great Britain |have done remarkable work since | their country entered the war. Every |six miles of tho English coast is a |station in which are six Sea Scouts jand an army officer. All these sta- tions are connected with the Admi- ralty by telephone, and whenever | necessary they call up headqua |and sound the warning of approach- ing alrships. It w | that detected the first Zeppelin to ap-| | proach England. |; Between the main stations there| aro sub-stations every two mil | which are stationed two Sea Scouts} |and a fisherman or sailor. s the Sea Scouts 8, | Most of the Italians scouts are in the Government's service, acting as messengers and giving aid back | Jot the firing lines. The Belgian| {scouts are doing good wor! Right now it would not be polic 5 | but , in| ra | Loa uts”” Ready To Patrol U. S. Coast: They Do ‘ Organized as a Special Division of the Boy Scouts of Amer® ica, Who Already Have Been “Doing Their Bit” for Liberty Loan—Growing at Rate of 1,200 a Day. ‘Over There”’ Sullivan HEN the history of the present great world’s war is written and the United States is given credit for what it has done to achieve victory, no organization will get more credit than the Boy ers are really doing wonderful things to tell all the vital work ship laws will permit of it some as- of thrilling and clever stunts per- formed by these embryo good American citizens. ustling night and day securing sub- every scout within fifteen miles of ‘the Atlantic Coast is organized and ready to answer the call of the Navy. ‘outs, They are familiar with every id when Uncle Sammy calls them— vill be ready for patrol duty. eers such as Davy Crockett and Dan- iel Boone. The scouts here were or- ganized in 1910 and chartered by Congress, “When the first Liberty Loan call was made the Boy Scouts became in- terested in securjng subscriptions, yeorge Pratt, Standard Oli Sec retary, and other big men declared that they were sure that the boys couldn't raise a million dollars be- tween them the country over. How- ever, the large sum of $23,000,000 was i y them despite lack of proper tion. In the Second Liberty they raised $102,000,000, ac~ counting for one out of every eight- een subscriptions turned in to the U.S. A. This time they are not try- ing to make a record as to amount, but they are bending their efforts to the French scouts, most of these boys | | doing yeoman’s service {n gardening. | } James A. Wilder is the chief Sea! Scout. He has organized all the boys along the Atlantic Coast. Mr. Wilder, | | who is a wealthy sugar man, being {reputed a millionaire many times lover, first became interested in the scouts when in England several years ago. He received instructions un-| |der Gen. Byng, and he became so | enthused about the organization that | when he went to his home in Hono-| |1ulu he organized the Boy Scouts of |Honolwu. Just after we entered the| | war he came here for a visit and sug-| | gested the Sea Scout branch of the reach all the people who have never subseribed to a loan. The more in- dividuals they the happler they will feel. secure “The Government is greatly inter- ested in the Boy Scouts of America, and is anxious that we swell our ranks to the 2,000,000 mark. his we hope to do before many years. It is figured that there are 10,000,000 | boys in the country between twelve ‘and eighteen y pars of age, the age limits of the scouts, The Govern ment was really impressed for the first time with the hustling ability of the boys when the W, 8. S. was in troduced. One million special postal | Boy Scouts, having become convinced | Cards were printed so the boys could | lof the great things accomplished by} the organization in England. He has} dally been receiving letters from his plantation urging his return, but he is so enthusiastic about the Sea Scouts that he is not likely to cross the Pacific until the end of the war. “Before the summer is over,” sald Mr. Wilder to-day, “we will have Franklin Roosevelt, Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, ag active head of the Sea Scouts. Admiral Henry Mayo is our executive body, and he declares that when he gets over on the other side he will persuade Ad- mirals Beatty and Wemyss to serve jon the board too.” | he boys of the country are he- jeoming so taken up with the scouts that they aro Joining at the rate of 1,200 » day. The only trouble that jthe organization is having is in se- According to | the very latest figures there are now | 825,797 Boy Scouts in this country. These boys are divided into patrols of eight boys each, Three or four, patrols make up a troop, and there are 14,924 troops in the country. Chief West at rters, No, 200 Scout Executive J the National Head Fifth Avenue, to-day, “that the unt- form our boys are w ing was rec- lognized by this Government in the present war before that of the Red Cross and the Y. M.C, A.?. When the National Reorganization Law was passed in Congress jn 1916 section 125 excepted the Boy Scouts from prohibition against wearing uniforms similar to those worn by the U. Army, Navy or Marine Corps. have since added the Red Cross and Y. M.C. A. “The idea of Boy Scouts originated with Gen. Sir Robert Baden-Powell in the Boer War. Ile needed boys for messengers and used them as such. When he got back to Eng- land he conceived the idea that Boy Scouts would be a good thing for the training of boys {n times of pea So it was he that organized the first band of boys, and most of the things The entire movement should be| taught them were fashioned after ex-| |periences and methods used by the famous American scouts and plon- They} secure orders for thrift stamps. To the surprise of the officials at Wash ington this number didn’t last « week, “Of course Boy Scouts nevef handle a gun. We don’t believo in making tin soldiers. What we strivd to do in our organization ts to makd useful citizens of the boys. We hel them mentally, physically and mora ly, and when the time comes for them to enter the service they maké the best of soldiers because they are good citizens. “We figure that there are in on® army now 700,000 boys, soldiers wha have had Boy Scout training. You can't wonder they make good gol4 dlers they are taught t make the best of things at all times, They know how to make a fire witha out matches; how to make a sort oft “hard tack’ withouf kitchen utens sils; know how to administer first aid; how to swim, how to “wigwag" and all such things. “Most of the men we have it charge of the boys give their servicea free of charge, In our entire organ- ization there are less than 300 patd Joffictals, and they are scout execu- tives paid by the busin men in | various There are 90,000 scout leaders in the country “The boys of the five boroughd have camps situated at Bear Moun- tains, up the Hudson, this side of |Nyack. A number of the lads stayed |there all winter studying forestry. because cities. Some boys from Brooklyn went up there last winter with the thermom- eter at 14 below, broke the ice for their water, m@doe their fire and cooked their meals and enjoyed things as though they were comfort~ jably seated around their homo | hearths. routing i luable for boys bee | cause it giv 1 something to do all the tim ter school, when boys Jusually learn the bad habits they j}acquire, the Boy Scouts busy are ».| performing duties assigned them, so they haven't time to do anything |w rong, even were they inclined. “We ought to have every boy of eligible age in the as a Boy Scout." country enrolled