Arizona republican., 1912-02-26

so near grown. it wasn't worth while.
 Of the adolescent aGe-that age when the boy and girl do not under stand themselves-havc we nothing to learn in order to understand and guide them alright? Is our duty to our children done when we give them up to the teachers"
 1 am acquainted with parents who, being thcosophists. gave their boy. al the age of four or five. to the school at Point Loma to educate. They are very proud of his mental attachments. hut see him only a few hours once a year or less often. I cannot under stand the mother heart which would give uD the sweetness of the influ- ence and training she might give to her child during those years.
 So we have formed these circles in order that we might cooperate wisely with the teachers into whose care we have given our children for q rart of the time.
 It is partnership. but in many of
 the instances. one of the partners is working in one direction with the other opposing. consciously or uncon- sciousIy And what can be expected of the poor child in such an event? Let us get together understandingly. Then to the mothers whose children are beyond the school age and per haps. have grandchildren. to you we appeal for help. as to those with eX- periepce and whose hands are not SC full with the cares brought by little children. We need you.
 In d recent lecture by one of our city's physicians, the needless waste of infant life was brought forcibly be- fore us We had heard that reliable statistics prove that somewhere in the Y orld baby dies every ten seconds, which means nearly nine thousand a day
 In the childwelfare campaign in New York city last year there was an electric light which was auto matically extinguished every ten sec
 onds bearing sign. "A baby dies every ten seconds and in Chicago's s child welfare campaign last May ev- cry fourth doll-baby was dropped in- to the grave. Grewsome? Awful? Yes, but sometimes we need these 
 lessons
 Perhaps We have thought. compla- gently, That is a problem of the
 great cities which it Is. but when our own health officials give very high percentage of death rate among babies right here in health giving Arizona. We wake up and say, What
 does if mcan?" In some cases it means sin. in others indifference. in others ignorance.
 As a ration, we should hide our heads when we learn that in the United States there are more deaths of babies in proportion to the number of births than in Great Britain,
 France. Italy. Japan, Holland. Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Belgium. Dem
 mark or Australia. We are hoping in the year to come to accomplish something along this line. Then we must learn all we can of the preventable contagious and | infectious diseases and how to have
 sanitary homes, school houses and
 cities.
 Some years ago. it is said the idea
 Of child conservation was to save one
 more human being in the world. but
 now we are looking beyond that and trying to develop all there is in the
 three sides of child-nature, physical
 mental and spiritual.
 The schools are the main source of
 tie mental development. and we are 1 beginning to wonder if it is not pos
 slble that there is great waste Oi time and energy in our usual methods
 uf teachin. after learning of tn,