JOBS FOR DEAD MEN

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 150, 21 December 1929, Page 17

JOBS FOR DEAD MEN

Germany is finding jobs of work for dead men to do! The robot schoolmaster has arrived in the form of human skeletons that teach the: young how to keep fit and healthy. It is the most remarkable development of all in postwar Germany's passionate craze to breed a generation of supermen and superwomen. To demonstrate the correct way to stand, .sit, walk, and play. I grim ana grinning skeletons are placed in turn in unhealthy ana inaccurate attitudes, and then in correct ones. It w an unforgettable and forceful lesson. i Inerej in one corner, Bits at a piaro what was once a flesh-eoverea, living, breathing man. In the other corner two human relies 101 lat a desk. Another skeleton is carrying a basket, and another a baby, while others are dotted about the room in a variety of postures. ,The effects of unhealthy attitudes are clearly demonstrated. The laziest man or woman, once he has seen how hia body is abused by slovenly postures, strives to mend his or her ways. "This is the obvious' and most sensible manner in which the evils of slovenly attitudes" can" be impressed UpoH the German people," said the professor who organised the exhibit for Berlin's school children. And go. the dead teach' the living how to live!