Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-31
CAMPAIGN IS PLANNED
FOR PURE milk HERE
To Last One Week Beginning Mon.
day-Playlet to Be Used as
Object Lesson.

A weeks campaign for pure milk
here is to be conducted by all agencies
in Washington active in child welfare,
starting Monday
Effort is to be made to bring con-
vincingly to the attention Of every
mother in the District the need Of care
in feeding the child, and particularly
regarding the milk it drinks.
These workers say that conditions
here are better now than in most cit
les. but that there are many improve
ments yet to be brought about. They
say that infant welfare work here is
admirably done. and is a model for
many other localities. but that it is not
done on a sufficiently large scale, and
that they want to arouse interest in
this child conservation work, so that
it will spread to every home in the
capital.
Arrangements have been made by a
committee representing these various
agencies Of child welfare with the
management of Keith's Theater for
special demonstrations and propagan da
work in connection with &he playlet
MILK by Miss Euna Clayton, which
is to be part Of the regular Keith bill
next week.
Special Performance Tuesday.
There is to be special performance
Tuesday morning at II o'clock for
mothers who would not otherwise have
an opportunity to see the instructive
playlet, and the children of the Mar
garet Wilson Social Center Of the Gro
yer Cleveland school are to be special
guests. Moving pictures of this audi
ence are to be taken as they leave the
At other performances during the
week prominent persons whose efforts
are in welfare work are to make
speeches calling the attention of the
audience to the local application OF
the milk crusade. Among these are to
G. Woodward, District health officer;
Lewis Merriam Of the child labor bu-
reau and Ernest L. Thurston, superin-
tendent of the District schools.
Model Infant Welfare Station.
There is to be model infant welfare
station in the lounge of the theater,
where will be shown the proper meth
DDS Of handling milk, sterilizing Of
bottles, etc, with a comparative ex-
hibit Of poor milk and improper meth
DDS of handling. Posters will also be
shown illustrating the pure milk cam
paign.
To Show District Methods.
THE city health department will add an
exhibit Of its methods Of controlling the
milk supply of the District with interest
ing charts and advertising data
The Agricultural Department, through
the chemistry bureau and the bureau Of
animal industry. will duplicate it's exhibit
at the Panama Pacific exposition showing
the testing Of milk and the inspection of
herds.
The children's bureau OF the Depart
ment Of Labor also will have an interest
ing exhibit along the same lines as its
Panama-Pacific fair display.
Each morning babies will be examined,
and those receiving the highest number
of points will be given prizes donated by
interested persons
For an hour before each performance
and during the tntermisions each day
there will he persons on hand to ex-
plain the milk crusade in particular and
social welfare work in general.
The committee which Is organizing
this milk campaign consists of ]. w.
Faust, extension secretary of the As
ISOLATED Charities; DIR. Joseph F. Wall.
medical director of the Washington
Diet Kitchen Association: Miss Estelle
L. Wheeler, supervisor of the WASH
ington Diet Kitchen Association; Miss
Elizabeth G; Fox. supervisor Of the In
West of the child labor bureau; Miss
Cecil B. Norton. director of the Mar
garet Wilson Social Center of the Gro
yer Cleveland School, and Miss Emma
Wilson of the school nurses