“MAKE BRITONS FIT”

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 9

“MAKE BRITONS FIT”

0 Scheme Outlined in White Paper Bv Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received February 5, 7.20 p.m.) London, February 4. How the Government will implement its “Make Britons fit” campaign is outlined in a White Paper. The scheme provides for the immediate establishment of National Advisory Councils and a national college of physical training for instructors. It is not intended to build up a completely new compulsory system of training for young Britons, but by systems of grants to utilise the existing machinery through the agency of local authorities and national voluntary organisations. It is estimated that the expenditure of £2,000,000 will be spread over three years, after which the cost will continue at £150,000 annually. The memorandum states: “Compulsion is wholly alien to the national temper and tradition. The Government's aim is not to ensure that every child achieves a certain standard of physical fitness, but to inculcate a wider realisation that physical fitness plays a vital part in promoting,, a healthy mind and human happiness.”