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Eastern Kentucky University Encompass The Athlete Kentucky High School Athletic Association 9-1-1942 The Kentucky High School Athlete, September 1942 Kentucky High School Athletic Association Follow this and additional works at: http://encompass.eku.edu/athlete Recommended Citation Kentucky High School Athletic Association, "The Kentucky High School Athlete, September 1942" (1942). The Athlete. Book 437. http://encompass.eku.edu/athlete/437 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Athlete by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. a men of today work and fight to preserve our nation-that the boys of today may lift it to greater heights tomorrow. Freedom can be pre served only through the exer cise of physical strength, mental stability and the will to endure. - The Kentucky High School Athlete Official Organ of the .Kentucky High School Athletic Association Vol. V - No. 2 SEPTEMBER, 1942 $1.00 Pe~ Year ()Wt VJ-ikii l!tne »/ :b~ (The Editor) The public schools of America, element schools are unable to expand facilities and ary, secondary, a'nd collegiate, constitute teaching personnel to provide the intensive the first line of defense for this great coun and practical training needed for industrial try of ours, and it is high time that satis employees during the present emergency. factory and substantial recognition be given But the tremendous amounts of money ex the agencies responsible for the educational pended on independent pseudo-educational system. The two most widely used and mis organizations distributed among the schools used words today are training and morale. of the country . would go a long way toward Granting that these two, along with intesti stabilizing the educational system and nal fortitude, include the elements essential guaranteeing a flow of trained workers at to successful conclusion of the war and a · the same time. Administrative costs, if the lasting peace thereafter, where are the rudi schools were entrusted with the complete ments of morale and any particular type of training program, would be negligible, and training to be acquired? The answer is ob certainly operation costs need be no more. vious, and the position of the public schools To be sure some effort is being made through in this respect is unassailable. the Vocational Departments to provide some Literacy requirements imposed on candi training in local areas, but as yet the facilities dates for any branch of the armed service available are so limited and the financial are decidedly more stringent than they were support so meager that teachers and ad during the last world war. Eligibles for spe ministrators already overworked and under cial branches are confined to those having paid are further burdened with no addi qualifications, acquired almost without ex tional remuneration. The morale of the ception, in the schools of the country. This teaching profession can only be described by is prima-facie evidence that the contribution . the term par excellence, else its members of the schools is recognized, but as yet only would be extinct. negligible support has been given to pre Can the ranks of highly trained teachers serve and expanq. the facilities used to mold be kept intact and their morale maintained and temper the sinews of the nation. Direct while their job constantly involves further and indirect subsidies granted by the Federal obligation without increases in pay while government enables industry to offer wages the poorly trained employees in industry that are rapidly depleting the personnel of have their wages pyramided several times the teaching profession to the extent that that of the average teacher! If the teachers schools are being forced to employ countless desert the ranks, where will be the source of thousands of poorly prepared teachers who the even partly trained workers that are in turn are expected to impart training and needed in such great numbers? If the instill morale into our youthful population. fundamental features of our educational pro It works equally as well as the result ob gram cannot be maintained, what will hap tained by the captain, who ordered full pen to the morale about which we are so steam ahead after commanding his stokers repeatedly warned? In the less prosperous to pull the fires. sections of the country local and state author Training, whether it be for war or peace ities have exhausted their resources. The time activities, involves teaching, and teach only salvation for their public school system ing is the respo;nsibility of the schools. Under is: existing economic and legal restrictions the EXTENDED FEDERAL AID. Page Two The KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE SEPTEMBER, 1942 Vol. V, No. 2 Rosenthal, G. L., 1626 Jefferson, P aducah. Published monthly, except June a nd July, by the Kentucky Samuel, C. Tom, 319 High, Richmond. High School Athletic Association. Scales, Edward R., 1615 Main Street, Murray. Office of Publication, Henderson, Ky. Schuette, Frederick, Route 3, Henderson. (Second Class Permit Pending) Sledd, T., Murray. Sloan, Wallace, 1020 N. B'Way ;Eixt., Lexington. Editor .. ... ........ .... .. .. .. ........ .... W. B. OWEN Horse Cave, Kentucky Thornton, Dave L., 200 Morgan Street, Versailles. Tyler, Eugene M., Pikeville Junior College, Pikeville. BOARD OF CONTROL President .. .. ..... .. .. .... Russell E. Bridges, Fort Thomas Webb, Buford C., 813 South 35th, Louisville. Vice-President ... ..... .. ... ... W . B. Owen, Horse Cave Weber, Edward H., 3707 St. Germaine Ct., Louisville. Secreta ry-Treasurer ....... .... Theo. A . Sanford, Henderson Wellman, Earl, 521 Sixth Street, Huntington, W. Va. Directors-John A. Dotson, Benha m ; J. Matt Sparkman, Williams, Dalton, 401 Martin Brown Bldg., Louisville. Ben ton ; Chris Purdom, Lancast er ; H. B. Gray, Bowling Green Wilson, Robert R. "Bullet," 329 College St., Wincheste:-. Subscription R ates ... $1.00 Per Year. Woodall, P aul A., Marion. York, IJoward A., 412 Eagle, Princeton. Young, June, c/ o Kentucky Utilities, P aducah. Principals are reminded that unless K. H. Examinations For Football Officials S. A. A. memberships are renewed by The National F ederation Examinations for October 1st, schools are automatically registered football officials will be given early in October. Each official will be notified directly from dropped from the Association until such the secretary's office concerning the time and place time as the membership is renewed. Mem of the examination. ber schools are warned not to play non member schools which are eligible to become members of the K. H. S. A. A. Why Insure Your Athletes? Registered Football Officials Of The Greater emphasis should be placed this year on the K. H. S. A. A.-1942 health of our school population than ever before. Andrews, J. B., 201 Hubbard Lane, Louisville. Many of our older high school boys and girls very Blackburn, Viley "Swede," P aris Pike, Georgetown. likely will see active duty before the war shall have Blersch, George, 6024 Grand Vista, Cincinnati, Ohio. been concluded, and unfortunately numbers of our Boemker, Robert, Box 458 Madison Pike, Covington. younger students will of necessity fill in both for Bray, Robert, 175 Meadow Avenue, St. Bernard, themselves and those hapless ones who may never Cincinnati, Ohio. return. Brown, Travis T., Maj. QMC Hdqrs. 12th Armd. Div., Every boy and girl entering the schools of Ken Camp Campbell, Ky. tucky in September should be given the privilege of a Cummings, George, 210 Cambridge Drive, Louisville. free and thorough physical examination followed by Davis, Charles, Benham. remedial practice to the greatest extent possible under Deaver, John, 218 Sterrett, Covington. the widely varying conditions within the state. H ealth Durkin, John J., Box 118, Huntington, W.Va. of our students and teachers is an all-important factor Geverts, Jim, 3760 Drake Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. in school morale, and the morale of the communitv Greenwell, Sam, Morgan Street Morganfield. will fluctuate unfailingly with that of the school. · Gullette, Arthur T., 160 Bonnie Brae Drive, Lexington. Hackensmith, c. w., 403 Penna Avenue, Lexington. In the case of athletes the High School Athletic Hacker, Henry, McRoberts. Association Insurance program affords one means of Hall, Joe M., 414 Lake, Fulton. insuring against the lack of proper medical attention. Herndon, Raymond H., Box 2, Cumberland. Very likely every school in the state provides what Holland, Tom, Pikeville. ever medical assistance it can afford when athletes Horne, Lee S., P ound, Va. are injured, but when the injured player is insured, Hughes, Charles T., Westover Avenue, Richmond. he is definitely assured of treatment in practically all Jones, Frank D., 300 Arnstine Bldg., Knoxville, Tenn. cases. The schedule does not provide for special types Koster, Fred C., Jr., 2539 Trevi!ian Way, Louisville. of injuries that are most difficult to define and Kraesig, Raymond, 1423 Lexington Road, Louisville. diagnose. However, the more frequent and common injuri-es are covered to a very reasonable extent.. T'J.e Lancaster, Harry C., 192 Forest P ark, Lexington. cost of such protection either to the school or to Lawson, Carl E., 210 Ford, Corb~. individual athletes, if the cost is passed on to them, is McClurg, Charles, Harlan. negligible when compared to the financial burden McHale, Edward J., 2023-B Sutter Ave., Cincinnati, 0. imposed by one serious injury. McKown, C. H ., Wayne, W. Va. Manar, Fred, 1160 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green. Unless our athletes are covered by other insurance Miller, Reed S., 1651 Edenside Avenue, Louisville. agenci·es every school in the state of Kentucky should Mitchell, Dick I., 1131 Beaumont, Harrodsburg. enroll every athlete in the Association protection Moore, William A. , Central Park, Louisville. organization. The insurance program loses a con Morris, 0. M., P ound, Va. siderable sum of money every year, but if the health Powell, Lee F., Box 271 Paducah.