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Outwitting Your Years

Outwitting Your Years the use of student leaders in physical education, budget making, and finance, the purchase and care of equipment, and publicity in physical education. The chapters on aims and objectives of physical education, and on the relationship of physical education to general education, remain essentially the same as they were in the first edition and serve as very good examples of what may be done by textbook writers who wish to present better than merely arbitrarily selected material. If the volume has any weaknesses at all they are inconsequential. Perhaps the chapter on school health education could have been either omitted or amplified, inasmuch as its current twentyseven pages hardly do justice to the area itself and there are other whimsicalities which are surprising in a volume the status of this one. For example, the authors occasionally refer to a physical education class as a "gym class" and at one point they are old-fashioned enough to indicate that a physical education class can be brought to order by the blowing of a whistle and the lining up of students silently on prearranged marks. These, however, do not destroy in any sense the great value of the book itself. DELBERT OBERTEUFFER of an evidently successful medical career. If all the prominent friends and personalities of his recent decades, referred to as authorities or fellow-travellers in the sphere of geriatrics and gerontology, were to read the book its popularity would be assured. As an anthology of contemporary medical and journal literature the matter offered is quite comprehensive. One seeks for any new resource or promise for the prevention or delay in the process of aging or for management of the disabilities of the growing host of grand parents. As an office or waiting room volume the book may serve a passing purpose for it reads easily and quickly and is written with ease and lightness of touch by a friend of his fellowmen who has insight, intuition, and a well filled memory of clinical successes. This is not a contribution to science and there is neither novelty nor discovery offered for professional workers in the vineyard of prevention or treatment of the young and old over fifty. HAVEN EMERSON Outwitting Your Years-By Clarence William Lieb. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1949. 271 pp. Price, $2.75. The title is certainly intriguing, and one finds liberal quotations from the wits and wise men of the centuries scattered throughout the twenty-nine chapters. There is plenty of the common sense as usually offered in the happy converse of the family physician with his patients of middle age and beyond. The author's philosophy, his inclination to optimism, hard work, faith in the religion of his choice, are all comforting as a background, and a product How Shall We Pay for Health Care ?-By Oscar R. Ewing and George F. Lull. New York: Public Affairs Committee, Inc., 1949. 32 pp. Price, $.20. In publishing this pamphlet, the Public Affairs Committee has departed from its usual methods of presentation because of the lack of agreement on essential principles concerning how best to organize our medical services to make them readily available to all. As the committee states: " Instead of a carefully balanced presentation, eliminating unproved and controversial statements, the committee has opened its pages to a frankly partisan statement of both sides of the controversy regarding the organization of medical care." The pamphlet reflects both the advantages and disadvantages of this type of approach On the credit side, indi- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Public Health American Public Health Association

Outwitting Your Years

Haven Emerson
American Journal of Public Health , Volume 40 (3) – Mar 1, 1950
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the use of student leaders in physical education, budget making, and finance, the purchase and care of equipment, and publicity in physical education. The chapters on aims and objectives of physical education, and on the relationship of physical education to general education, remain essentially the same as they were in the first edition and serve as very good examples of what may be done by textbook writers who wish to present better than merely arbitrarily selected material. If the volume has any weaknesses at all they are inconsequential. Perhaps the chapter on school health education could have been either omitted or amplified, inasmuch as its current twentyseven pages hardly do justice to the area itself and there are other whimsicalities which are surprising in a volume the status of this one. For example, the authors occasionally refer to a physical education class as a "gym class" and at one point they are old-fashioned enough to indicate that a physical education class can be brought to order by the blowing of a whistle and the lining up of students silently on prearranged marks. These, however, do not destroy in any sense the great value of the book itself. DELBERT OBERTEUFFER of an evidently successful medical career. If all the prominent friends and personalities of his recent decades, referred to as authorities or fellow-travellers in the sphere of geriatrics and gerontology, were to read the book its popularity would be assured. As an anthology of contemporary medical and journal literature the matter offered is quite comprehensive. One seeks for any new resource or promise for the prevention or delay in the process of aging or for management of the disabilities of the growing host of grand parents. As an office or waiting room volume the book may serve a passing purpose for it reads easily and quickly and is written with ease and lightness of touch by a friend of his fellowmen who has insight, intuition, and a well filled memory of clinical successes. This is not a contribution to science and there is neither novelty nor discovery offered for professional workers in the vineyard of prevention or treatment of the young and old over fifty. HAVEN EMERSON Outwitting Your Years-By Clarence William Lieb. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1949. 271 pp. Price, $2.75. The title is certainly intriguing, and one finds liberal quotations from the wits and wise men of the centuries scattered throughout the twenty-nine chapters. There is plenty of the common sense as usually offered in the happy converse of the family physician with his patients of middle age and beyond. The author's philosophy, his inclination to optimism, hard work, faith in the religion of his choice, are all comforting as a background, and a product How Shall We Pay for Health Care ?-By Oscar R. Ewing and George F. Lull. New York: Public Affairs Committee, Inc., 1949. 32 pp. Price, $.20. In publishing this pamphlet, the Public Affairs Committee has departed from its usual methods of presentation because of the lack of agreement on essential principles concerning how best to organize our medical services to make them readily available to all. As the committee states: " Instead of a carefully balanced presentation, eliminating unproved and controversial statements, the committee has opened its pages to a frankly partisan statement of both sides of the controversy regarding the organization of medical care." The pamphlet reflects both the advantages and disadvantages of this type of approach On the credit side, indi-

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