Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-13
BALTIMORE INFANTS BAND TO-
oETheR TO PROMOTE eENE.
FlcENT PLAN.
DONATE FUNDS FOR ExHIeIT
At CONGRESS OF HYGIENE
Cause. Which Lead to Sacrifice Of
Thousands Of Infants TO Be Graphi-
eaIIy IIIustrated-Exhibi Later Will
30 Taken on Tour Of South An
Educational Undertaking.
ESPECIAL Correspondence.1

washington May 13.-BableS OIL
Baitimore-scores of tiny tots-have
! banded together and Will make gift
to cost $3.50 to the babies Of the
world. All details Of the plan have been
worked out, and most of the money
/ already has been subscribed. Formal
presenta ton Of the gift will be made
at the fifteenth international congress
on hygiene and demography. which will
be held in Washington, Sept. 1928.
Discussion OF the bencGc:en. plan
was begun by the stylish perambuator
brigade which takes its daily airing
around the greet marble column. sur
mounted by the statue of Washington
! from which the Monumental City takes
! it's pseudonym. 1t was the concensus
! of opinion that Baltimore babies were
very healthy lot, and that their en-
vironment made them much to be en-
/ WED. Then the baby talk drifted to the
unfortunate conditions which surround
the lives Of many babies, and one
Juvenile scion described the extent and
causes of infant sickness and death.
and the possibility of cutting down the
bal ies ny the spreading of more
general knowledge of the hygiene Of
&: ::c.
And that is the way the Dropositio-
started for the babies of Baltimore TO
make a most useful gift to the babies
of tine world. When they returned 10
their respective homes after that me-
morable afternoons: the babies held
inI. of no
good for others and the infant orators
carried their point in many family
courcis The grown-ups who were so
fortunate as to belong to them-the
fathers and mothers, gthe sran6fathers
and eranomothers. the great grands
and even remoter kinfolls. were won
over. Next day the baby treasurer of
the baby brigade began to receive
checks in generous amounts.
Exhibit is Arranged,
With the money in hand ii was ar
ranged with DR.. j. w. Scherescnewsky,
the director of the exhibition on health.
which will be a feature of the iHterna-
tional congress that the American AS
ISOLATION for Study and Prevention OF
infant Mortality, which has its head
quarters in Baltimore. should arrange
an exhibit which will illustrate graph
icaily ana in easily understood fashion
the causes which lead to the useless
sacriflce OF countless thousands OF
baby lives in the cities and towns not
only Of America but of .Ec world The
various ways in which ignorance
causes needless and countless infant
6iea ti,s will be, Diustr ted, and the way
will be shown by which these may be
avoided. The exhibit will be prepared
and placed in the names of the babies
of Baltimore. and u tablet setting forth
, the fact that il is the gift Of the babies
will be displayed before all of the
thousands of visitors to the congress
and to the exhibition. TIE ages Of the
Youngsters who are making the gift
range from weeks to ten years and
over.
The kiddiss represent some of the
, future heaux and bellies of the Monu-
mental City. the future leaders in So
cial. literary. scientific. religious. po-
litical and financial life. All of the
names suggest activities of today. Two
of the former governors of Maryland
i-Governor Warfield and Governor
Jackson-are represented by little
grandchildren. Another of the little
contributors is granddaughter Of
! Thomas Winans, the man who built
the first railroad across Russia.
! Af:e- the close Of the congress. the
exhibit will revert to the American AS
! ISOLATION for Study and Prevention OF
Infant Mortality. and it will be sent
| thruout the south as travelling ex-
| hibti.