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The first complete book on the increasingly important subject of industrial recreation. It is intended as a guide to industrial recreation directors in administering employee recreation programs and also for those who wish to study the organization and administration of such a program. In addition to specific recommendations on planning and initiating a program, program activities, program leadership, and financing the program, there is a thorough discussion of the history of employee recreation and its benefits to industrial relations.

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• Dudley Ashton, head of the Department of Physical Education for Women, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, is a pastChairman of the National Section on Dance. She contributed to Materials for Teaching Dance, and is current chairman of the AAHPER Periodical Committee.

Bettye Breeser is Nature Consultant for Delaware Co. Girl Scouts. She is Past President of the Professional Writers Club of Philadelphia and a member of the Comstock Nature Society. Her address is 63 Mansion Rd., Springfield, Pa.

Lula P. Dilworth is Assistant in Health Education, State Department of Education, Trenton, N. J. She is a former AAHPER Chairman for School Health Services, and is now serving on the JOURNAL Editorial Board and as President of the NJAHPER.

Mary Margaret Frederick is Professor of Physical Education at Seton Hill College, Greensburg, Pa.

Marjorie Kelly is Assistant Professor of Physical Education at State Teachers College, Bridgewater, Mass.

⚫ M. M. Mackenzie is Professional Assistant, Department of Physical Training, United States Air Force Academy at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colo. • Louis E. Means is Consultant in School Recreation, Bureau of Health Education, Physical Education, and Recreation, State Department of Education, Sacramento 14, Calif. He is a JOURNAL Editorial Board member and has previously written articles for the JOURNAL.

Dr. Kenneth D. Miller is Professor of Physical Education at Florida State University, Tallahassee. He now teaches professional and graduate courses in physical education and formerly coached individual sports. He is Associate Editor for both JOURNAL and RESEARCH QUARTERLY.

• Madelyne Walker and Ray Hobbs are Instructors of Physical Education and Master Teachers at the Pullman (Wash.) Public Schools.

Charles C. Wilson, M.D., is Professor of Education and Public Health at Yale University. He is a former AAHPER Vice-President for Health Education and Honor Award recipient. The World Health Organization recently sent him on a tour of South America to study professional preparation for health education. ★

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I was extremely interested to note in the January JOURNAL the article entitled "Backyard Basketball."

In view of the growing interest in basketball over here, I feel that this article would be of great interest to members of our Association, and I was wondering if you would be kind enough to give me permission to reproduce it in one of our own issues, provided that we make suitable acknowledgements?

RONALD E. DUNN, editor

BULLETIN OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
British Assn. of Organizers and
Lecturers in Physical Education
University of Liverpool

Our Association is happy to give permission to reprint JOURNAL articles, provided the author is also willing, for professional use (not for sale). AAHPER members are always free to mimeograph them for class use, of course.

DEAR EDITOR:

Just opened my February issue of the JOURNAL to page 29, "The Appeal of Gymnastics" by Childs and Baley. The picture in the upper left-hand corner states that the co-author, Hal Childs, is on the parallel bars.

I am sure he is and he is doing a onearm hand balance or stand on one bar, but the picture shows him to be hanging on a bar with the ceiling of the room to his feet. I am sure the picture was printed upside down.

C. E. MILLER, Chairman
Physical Education and
Intramurals for men
Univ. of Nebraska

This alert reader is right-the picture referred to was printed upside down. Apologies are due the authors. The error occurred in the printing process.

DEAR EDITOR:

I have read with interest Mr. Hess' letter in the February JOURNAL Editor's Mail. However, I feel a clarification of his first point is in order.

I quite agree with his kinesiological interpretation of the action of the abdominal and psoas muscles on the pelvis. Therefore, I believe he has misinterpreted my original statement which

said that "it was found that as the abdominals increased in strength with the increase in age, there was an increase in psoas failures." This statement was a general observation and as there was no way to account for the increase in psoas failures as the age increased, it was hypothesized that the greater leg length that comes with prepubertal growth might be the explanation for the increase in the rate of failure on the psoas test. There was no intent to link them as cause and effect.

I would like to agree with Mr. Hess' second observation that as abdominal strength increases, pelvic positions are improved. However, this has no direct bearing on the tests under discussion.

As to the flexibility test, I should like to know how many children could pass that test if given more trials at the time of the initial testing. It is my belief that additional trials would lower the failure rate in a significant number of cases on this test. I do not believe that additional trials would improve scores on the strength tests to any appreciable extent.

There was no intent that back muscle tests should be eliminated because rate of failure is low. The criticism was in the adequacy of the test on which there was such a low rate of failure. The test may not be difficult enough. Tests 'usually should produce a scattering of scores rather than a piling up of scores at any one point.

I am sorry that the illustrations do not demonstrate exact technique. They were made originally for television production and hence slight variations from exact testing procedures do exist. The examiner's position for the flexibility test was a compromise for purpose of a better television picture for a lay audience. The shoes, however, were pure oversight. For purposes of clarification, all data reported in the study were secured without shoes and it should be emphasized that this is important.

It is implied in our findings that better physical education programs do produce better test results. As a matter of fact the difference was statistically significant between schools with good programs and those without. However, my original criticisms of the tests still seem valid. More study needs to be done on the entire problem before these tests are accepted as valid tests of "minimum muscular fitness."

MARGARET G. Fox

Dept. of Phys. Educ. for Women,
State Univ. of Iowa

The letters by Mr. Hess and Dr. Fox refer to the article, "Results of Testing lowa Schoolchildren for Health and Fitness," in the September JOURNAL, page 20, by Dr. Fox and Miss Atwood.

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