PHYSICAL TRAINING

Evening Star, Issue 22573, 15 February 1937, Page 10

PHYSICAL TRAINING

KEEPING THE NATION FIT THE BRITISH SCHEME Pr tm Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 12. The leaders of the various national sports in the National Advisory Council include Lord Burghley and Noel Baker, both ex-Olympic Games competitors, W. W. Wakefield, the wellknown English Rugby ex-captain, and also S. F. Rous, secretary of the Football Association, and Captain J. G. ' Paterson, director of the Physical Training Industrial Welfare Society and Commandant of the Duke of York’s camp. The women councillors include the lawn tennis player Miss Dorothy Round, Miss Margaret Morris, principal of the Margaret Morris Dancing Institute, ■ Miss Prunella Stack, leader of the Women’s League of Health and Beauty, and Lady Eleanor Keane, chairwoman of the National Council of Girls’ Clubs. The medical members include Lord Dawson. The council numbers 30 with the addition of a chairman. The remaining members represent social, education, and physical training country-wide movements. [A previous message stated that the former Middlesex cricketer Lord Aberdare was to become chairman of the National Advisory Council under the Government’s new physical fitness scheme. Mr Oliver Stanley, in mak-' ing this announcement in the House of Commons, described the duties of the council as partly scientific, but perhaps the most important work would be propaganda and publicity. The council would consist of 30, and it would establish and work through local committees. The scheme was intended' to deal with nutrition, hut would be complementary to the Government's measures to improve nutrition. He admitted that there were black spots in the country, but the idea that the great mass of the people of Britain were so underfed that they were unable _to derive profit from physical training was grotesque.]