PHYSICAL FITNESS CAMPAIGN
PROBLEM OF THE DISTRESSED AREAS A HEAD MASTER'S CIMPLAINT Press Association — By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 17. (Received December 19, at 1.30 a.m.) “ We cannot produce A 1 soldiers in schools on C 3 rations from these defiressed areas,” declared Mr Eddie Wiliams, head master _ of Blaina Boys’ School, Monmouthshire, criticising the conditions under which children were educated in such areas. He pointed out that it was humbug for tie Government to expect teachers to co-ope-rate in its physical fitness campaign when the Exchequer’s contribution was 20 per cent.. Boots for physical training was a mere dangling of carrots before donkeys. “How are we going to find the other 80 per cent? ” he asked. He added: “ The children attend school with almost empty stomachs; They have tuberculosis and rheumatism stalking their footsteps. Fifty per cent, of hit boys are undersized and emaciated.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 21
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144PHYSICAL FITNESS CAMPAIGN Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 21
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