The evening world., 1913-07-01

Seven organizations In as many dihsf-
ent districts OF the city have already
announced their intention Of taking part
In these contests and a dozen more are
completing plans. The three independ-
ent contests that were held in the city
this spring were merely preliminary and
tentative. The series about to be held
10 based on . new plan evolved from
the combined experience CLEANED from
these previous ones. The purpose will
be to spur mothers and welfare agencies
to greater efforts IN behalf Of the city's
babies.
This announcement was made ex-
clusively to The Evening World to-day
in tho preliminary report by . special
representative committee of the Babies
welfare Association appointed to act as
a central committee to inaugurate and
control these contests
CENTRAL COMMITTEE WHO
WILL ARRANGE CONTESTS.
DR.. Godfrey r. Pisek Of the New
York Post Graduate Hospital 10 Chair
man Of this Central Committee. The
other members are Or. Addison w.
Baird OF the New York Child Welfare
Committee: DR.. Roger H. bennett New
York Post Graduate Hospital; DR.. Stat
ford Mclean Of the Babies Hospital;
DR.. A. e. Shipley Of the Division OF
Child Hygiene of the Board OF Health;
Mr.. Arthur Z. Wakeman; Director OF
the brooklyn Children's Aid Society.
and DR.. Phoebe Van Worst. Chairman
Of the Public Health Education Com
mittee OF the New York County Medi-
cal Society. DR.. 8. Josephine Baker.
Chief of the Division Of Child Hygiene
Of tAe Board Of Health and Chairman
Of the Executive Committee OF the
Babies Welfare Association. y ex-
ofY,clo member. and Carrot smith, Elk
ecutive Secretary Of the Babies Welfare
Association, will act - secretary to
this committee.
The Central Committee reports that
this move on the part OF the BABES
Welfare Association was prompted oy
the great manifestation OF public inter-
eat in the Better Babies Contests. ana
REQUESTS have poured into the central
ONCE on every hand. both from parents
| who wish to enter their babies In such
contests and from organizations which
wish to hold them. and look to the
Executive Committee OF the BABIES
Welfare Association as q proper BODY
| to act as q direct agency.
FIRST IN FIELD BEGINS REGIS
TRATIoN TO-DAY.
The f,rst organization in the Aeid ID
the Extension Association Of Public
School 81, at Albany avenue and Idn'
coin road, Brooklyn. which will begin
registering babies in the school building
to-day. Following that the Little
Mothers Aid Association will hold q
contest at their house. No. %SS Second
avenue. beginning Aug. /. Other or
Ranizations which are laying plans &c
BEGIN work In the near future arc tbs
Chelsea Neighborhood Association u
the middle west side. Union Settlement
| on the upper east side. the Finch Schoo
Association on the middle west side, tn,
| Warren Goddard House In West Thirty
fourth street. cooperating with tn
| Kipps Bay Neishborhood Association
which will enter babies In the territory
between East Twsnty-eighth street Ant
East Forty second street. Fifth avenu,
and East River. and the United Neigh
borhood Association OF Brooklyn. whici
covers the territory around tho Brook
Ign end Of the Brooklyn Bridge. TIT
School Extension Association and IN,
little Mothers Aid Association will fol
low I'D their initial contests with ciu
cational work among the mothers, pre-
pairing them for entering their babie
In a nnal contest In the fall. The oths.
organisations will register babies In tn
immediate future and conduct educa
tionsi work during the summer. prepar
atory to the contest to be held IN IN
'AaA ~ xlntlL Nv aaef1loG ~ n