The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-10-16
BETTER
BABIES CONTEST
RESULT OF THE SECOND EXAM.
NATION ARE GIVEN BY !.
THE COMMITTEE
Mr.. AND MRS. CUlHANES STATEMENT
They Give Their Side of the Matter In
Open Statement-This County Has
a Fine Bunch Of Babies

a flne n OF BABIES
Following is the report of the Better
Babies Contest as handed to us by the
committee in charge:
That the Civic League Of Brookings
satisfied a real desire Of the mothers
Of the county in conducting a Better
Babies Contest is well proven by the
fact hat ~sixtyeight babies were pre-
sented for examination on September
26, the date of the preliminary try-out,
the children coming from all the var
ious towns and from the country as
we'll. A most gratifying feature of the
occasion was the very general indiffer-
ence to prize winning shown by the
mothers present. The real desire be-
ing to know whether the child was as
healthy and well developed as appear
ance indicated. AS almost half of
those presented were absolutely sound
physically, the conformity to the table
of weights and measurements was the
most important factor in determining
prize winners.
A final examination Of about twenty
five of those scoring highest was held
October Z, and the cores carefully
verified. This examination was SO ar
ranged that all children of a certain
class passed through the hands of the
same physician.
That Brookings county babies are
unusually well developed was we'll at
tested by the cry large number Of
high scoring children, and the close
ness of the scores, several missing a
prize by 5 per cent only.
The standing and prizes are as fol-
lows:
Championship prize-Silver cups,
given by Commercial Club and Civic
League of Brookings.
Frank Neil Gazeley-White, 99.5.
Donald Misunderstanding, 99.5.
Sweepstakes prize-Bronze medals,
given by Woman's Home Companion.
Boys-Richard Louis Willis. Brook
ings, 90; Daniel Stephen Maher, Brook
ings, 80.
Girls-Kathlyn Wilcox, Brookings.
81.
Class prizes-Silver spoons, given
by Brookings Commercial Club.
6 months to 1 year
Girls-Helga Hegg, Bruce, 96.5;
Dorothy WEIGH, Brookings, 96.
Boys-Robert Caldwell, Brookings,
90; Shirley Larson. Brookings, "a.
/ year to 2 years
Girls-Ruth Matson, Brookings, 94.5;
Ruby Fraley, Volga, 93.5.
Boys-Robert McMillen, Brookngs,
98.5; Kenneth Koenig, White, 97.5.
2 years to 3 years
Girls-Kathlyn Wilcox, Brookings,
81; Dorothy Austin, Bruce. 96.5.
Boys-Richard Louis Willis, Brook
ings, 80; Daniel Stephen Maher,. Brook
ings, 80; Richard Burris. Brookings.
81; Wesley Dyball, Volga, 81.
The Civic League feels highly graft
fed with the success of this undertake
ing and wishes to thank the parents
for their unselfsh cooperation. And
especially to express their apprecia-
ton OF the work done by the examin-
ing physicians without whose support
the contest would have been impossi-
BILE.
Mr.. and Mrs. cuIhane's Statement
In view Of the fact that the Better
Baby Contest committee of the Civic
League has seen fit to hold a second
contest and attempt to declare other
and different winners Of prizes than
those declared at the First Contest,
regardless OF their right morally or
otherwise, to do 30, we deem 1t only
fair to present our side to the public.
We entered our son, John Langdon
Culhane, in the contest held September
26th and he scored 1914 per cent
(making 995 points out of a possible
10000. His measurements were taken
by Drs. Hyde and Jackson and his
physical examination made by DR.
Green. Each member of the commit
tee telephoned us promptly telling us
of his score and that he was winner
OF first in his class, winning sweep
stakes and championship, and that q
copy Of his score would be mailed M
in a couple Of days. Upon investiga.
ton We e informed that he lacked
only one-eight Of an inch II chez
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