Excerpt from Health by Stunts
In 1914 the writer began an investigation in the Detroit Public Schools with the idea of conducting such athletics as boys would like, that could be done under existing conditions, and that would develop the boys. This investigation, which has been continued, has proved conclusively that the play of boys and girls has been on the decline.
Boys had no record of what they could accomplish. The old stunts and contests were not only not participated in, but were almost entirely forgotten. Boys were spending from one to three hours a day, sometimes seven days in a week, at picture shows or in other passive entertainment. They were not taking part in anything athletic. The number of records taken to measure the athletic ability of boys in Detroit has reached far past the million mark, and many interesting conclusions have been reached.
Modern conditions have not only made boys inactive, but have made people of all ages inactive. Under such conditions chronic disease is rapidly on the increase. Statistics in the United States Government reports, insurance companies, and the investigations of the Life Extension Institute of New York have show this conclusively.
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