The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-05-11
Almost Twice as Large as First
Exhibit Given in New Ork
During February.-0psS
Tonight
WILL CONTINUE TWO YEfKS
Parents viii Be Given Practioi DEM
onstration Of Best Methods for
Improving Conditions f0
Their Children.

Chicago H., May 1.-THE Child
Welfare EX.Iibit, Tie largest show"
ever given in Chicago. will be thrown
open TO the public at 6 o'cl0lSl this
evening. With the opening of Tie doors
several records will be broken. In ad-
dition to being the largest eXnbt ever
held I'm the city, i'm which Absolutely
no line of color. of race. of religion. OF
politics has been drawn. literally
Everybody and everything in Chicago
have been working for weeks 10 make
this exhibit a success. There is not
an agency, private or public which in
any way bears on life and well being
OF child, which is not showh at the
exhibit. The length of time for the
installation has been so short in pro-
portion to the amount of wok to be
done, that another record was broken.
Day and night since Monday, the
workmen have been at the Coliseum,
working in shifts with no laDse be-
tween, i'm order that the doors might
DE thrown open at the appointed time.
Second Exhibit Of kinS
This is the second Child Welfare
Exhibit ever held. The first one was
held in New York i'm February and
proved so successful that public spir-
tied men and women of Chicago de-
cided one should be held IN Chicago
Sixteen months and $4,000 was spent
on the New York exhibit before it,
committee generously offered Tie ex-
hilbit to Chicago without charge ex-
cept for transportation. The Chicago
promoters accerted the offer deciding
to add to the original exhibit. one
which shows conditions as they exist
In Chicago. That is why the Chicago
exhibit is just twice as larse as the
New York one was.
Mrs. Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr., of
Chicago and Lake Forest, generously
offered $4,000 to insure the financial
part of the exhibit. Later when IL
was discovered that sum would not be
sufficient to cover the plans of the
committees, Mrs. Mccormick gave the
order to go ahead with the plans. say
ing she stood ready to pay the bud
get, as necessary.
Appeal to Parents.
The appeal of the exhibit is two
fold. The first and perhaps the more
4 Ia, 10 40 a.. %
and the mother Conditions as they
surround the child will he SHOWN and
there will be practical demonstrations
OF how these conditions may be i'm
proved. But the man or woman who
has no child. will not be neglected.
There will be lessons struck home to
the heart of every citizen of the COM
munity. What the city Is doing for
its children and what the city should
do will be plainly shown.
The conferences which are to be
held each morning. each afternoon and
each evening will bring to Chicago
some of the best known men and wo-
men of the country. to talk of the
"hild and its needs.
In order that the things shown at
the exhibit may be understood per-
fectly a corps of 1000 "explainers"
has been recruited. These men and
women are at work in shifts of four
hours each and will conduct visitors
from one department to another. ex-
planning the work in each In addi-
tion to the English-speaklng explain
ers, there will be men and women who
speak every language used in the city.