The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-11
BETTER BABIES WEEK To
Be OBSERVED N MARCH

ldications denote a real appreciation
| of the fact that Baby Health Is
Texas Wealth" among alert COM
Ipreparations are being made in hun
dreds of small towns for anticipa-
ton in the Baby Week" program
declared to be in sffect March :
to IL. by the Children's Bureau OF
the Department OF Labor.
| The Divisions of Home and Child
Welfare of the University of Texas
have been besieged with requests
for information concerning the pro-
gram for one-day observances OF
i"Baby Week" in small communi-
tiles, and in response to the demand
the following program is suggested
as a successful model used in many
S mall towns.
AS a prelude to the program the
Baby Welfare" experts give out
the following statement:
Every community should observe
the nation wide BABY Week." March
Ali, 1916. Get the local newspa-
pers interested, solicit the co-opera-
ton of the minister and have him
! give a sermon on the Little Child,
have the schools hold morning ex-
lercise on the subject, and interest
1.-THE entire community in holding a
l'Baby Rally" The following pro-
lgram is suggested for the Rally:
1. MY Old Kentucky Home
.. Prayer, ending with the Child'a
Greed.
3. The Better Babies Movement
land What it Means, by some mother.
A. Exercises by the children (see
suggestions below.
5. Song, Dixie"
6. Importance of Clean Milk to
Children, by local health officer.
7. How to Feed Little Children,
by physician or domestic economy
teacher.
8. Poem, 1.-THE Remorseful Cakes,
Iby Eugene field. recitation.
9. Song, Sweet and Low"
The Child's Greed is: Every
lchild has the inalienable right to be
born free from disease, free from
deformity and with pure blood in
tits veins and arteries.
Every child has the inalienable
right to be loved, to have its individ-
uality respected, to be trained wisely
in mind, body and soul, TO be pro-
tected from disease, from evil in
fluences and evil persons. and to
have a fair chance in life. In a
word, to be brought up in the fear
and admonition of the Lord"
The small children may act out
the following slogan, Baby Health
lis Texas Wealth" For this eXer-
else five children are needed. Each
child has a large cardboard word
the first being Baby" the second
Health" the third rs" and so on
Through the slogan. As each child
appears he gives the lines appropri-
ate to his word, holding his card
| as he talks. After the children have
given their individual lines, the
group recites in chorus, BABY
Health Is Baby Wealth" Verses
for this act and other appropriate
poems will be furnished by Home
Economics department of Universe
ty of Texas on application.
AS an aid in the preparation oil
the program the Divisions of Homo
and Child Welfare of the University
of Texas will gladly supply the fol
flowing bulletins or circulars which
Twill be found helpful:
Suggestions for Infant Feeding
No. s7s.
Food for Growing Children, No
s4S.
The Problem of School Lunches
No. 102, No. 33S, No. $50.
Pure Milk and How to Get It.
Circular.
Things Worth While for the
Baby.-Circular.
| Baby Welfare Exhibit. Circular
How to Feed the Family fol-
Health and Efficiency. No. 6S.
| Better Babies on Texas Farms
Pamphlet.
Why Register Births and Report
Cases of Sickness.-Circular.
All requests for the circulars and
bulletins should be addressed to the
Department of Extension OF the Uni
lversity of Texas at Austin>