Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-08
FIRE OPENING
GUN FOR BABY
WEEK FRIDAY
Rabbi Freund Will Lecture in
Ohev Sholom Temple;
Essay Contest On

The opening gun in the fight that
will be waged for better care of in
fants on March 1918 inclusive on the
fourth floor of Bowman's Department
Store, will be fired on Friday evening
of this week by Rabbi Charles j..
F'reund, in a lecture devoted to "Baby
Welfare" in Ohev Sholom Temple.
Ministers all over the city will take
up the campaign in their pulpits on
Sunday morning and by the time the
exhibit starts on next Wednesday, one
week from to-day. it is thought that
the interest will be at high heat.
Already sos has been contributed to
the fund that is to finance the Baby
Week" campaign, among the contri-
butors being the Visiting Nurses AS
sociation, the Anti-Tuberculosis So
ciety, the Academy of Medicine, the
Roberta Disbrow Lloyd Sunshine So
ciety and the Loyal Order of Moose.
The publicity campaign is we'll under
way and the 1400 flags that are to be
distributed TO every home in the city
and suburbs where small children rule
the household will be sent out the lat
ter part of this week in order to be
ready for display on next Monday
morning.
Essay Contest on "Better Babies
To further stimulate interest in the
welfare propaganda the committee
on arrangements has decided to offer
a cash prize of $3.50 for the best es-
say submitted on the subject. Better
Babies" There are no restrictions
placed on the contest except that the
essay must be written legibly and must
be mailed or given to Miss Mary Mil
Ter, of the Visiting Nurses Association,
ND gfN Tn1
nesday evening, March 10. The sub
ject is broad one and offers a splen-
did opportunity for display of knowl-
edge and talent.
The Bowman store is cooperating
in splendid fashion with the commit
tee and will bend every energy to
place the Baby Week standard so
to hustle to equal it. National inter
est is being centered on the welfare
exhibits during the present week and
the necessitated delay in this city will
mean that next weeks exhibit will
benefit by the results obtained in other
cities.
Mr.. Bowman has kindly volunteer
ed to use his advertising space in the
country newspapers and his street car
signs as well in order to spread the
news of the coming exhibit to every
corner which is reached by those me-
diums. On the fourth floor of his
store the State Health Department
will place 81 number of exhibits show
ing the latest and most strongly rec
commended implements, bottles meth
DDS of treatment and sanitation,
everything in fact that is in any way
connected with the welfare of the
baby. The floor space where the eX-
hibits will be held is about 40 by so
feet. One of the features, decided
upon at a meeting yesterday of the
Committee on Exhibits, will be the
portrayal of a home built upon a
dump; from there a little child will
he taken to a good home in a clean
part of the city and thence out into
the country for the recovery of its
health. This exhibit will in all prob
ability be ia miniature.
Mrs. Nachman was selected as the
representative TO go to Baltimore and
obtain some idea of the method of
handling Baby Week down there, and
to secure suggestions which will be
put into effect in Harrisburg. John
Yates will do the same ut Philadel-
phia.