Middletown transcript., 1917-05-12
A REAL BABY SHOW
Will be Observed in Middletewn
May 18th, to 18th
AN INTERESTING PROGRAM

18th! Lectures by nurses, doctors,
dentists, etc., on how to save the health
and life of the precious baby. To all
which blessed baby campaign, the
Scribe heartily subscribes. Why should
he not? Has he not thru The Tran
script, which is always championing
every good public cause, been for years
preaching a "Save the Babies" CAM
paign of his own, save the Middletown
babies from the perils of deadly fly
borne diseases by shutting up their
breeding places, the open manure piles ?
Why not begin this baby campaign
right here at home by taking so simple
and yet so admirable measure of pre-
vention as closing up for good this priv
ileged and venerable public nuisance,
the open manure pile?
Learned lectures and discu ssions how
to save the theoretical baby are all very
well, but to stop at that, to leave un-
touched these glaring, easily remedied
home perils, stamps the local "Baby
Week" campaign as absurd not to say
insincere. So, if our good ladies of
Middletown, in the churches, in the New
Century Club and all others, really mean
to do anything besides indulge in lot
of academic discussion they will cut
short the talk and "get right down to
brass tacks" by closing the towns in
fernal fly nurseries.
Modern medicine lays squarely at the
door of that dirty pest, the dangerous
fly, a big percentage of the summer
diseases that kill so many little children,
especially infants in their second year.
How illogical folks are A single mad
dog in town scares everybody. and
arouses swift campaign for his de-
struction. But the billions uncountable
of diseased flies, that kill ten times over
more children in a single year than mad
dogs in century-oh they don't stir a
pulse.
The Scribe, presuming on the many
columns of merited praise and compli-
ment he has penned about the ladies of
the New Century Club, once more calls
upon them to end this curse as they can
if they mean business; but if they do
not he will feel like saying something
more critical than laudatory about
them.
Babies to right of US,
Babies to left of US,
Babies in front of US,
Babies enough to dazzle us,
God bless them,
So say we, all of us.
The infant welfare meetings are en-
tirely free and every woman in Middle
town or its vicinity whether she has
children or not. will be cordially well
come in the Assembly room of the Pub
lie school at 2 o'clock, May 18th and
10th
If she has boys and girls of her own
she will no doubt gain some ideas. to try
out upon them, and if she has none she
can absorb theories to recommend to
her more fortunate sister or cousin.
PROGRAM
Tuesday.
l. Salute the Flag, Children.
g. Talk by Mrs. Deemer.
3. Recitation.
4. tuberculosis Among Children, Miss
Whitten.
S. Dialogue, Children.
6. Contagious Diseases, Dr.. Lewis.
z. Recitation.
8. Effect of Diseased Tonsils and Ad-
noids on Health of the Child, DR..
Vaughan.
9. Song, Children.
10. Dental Prophylaxis, DR.. johnson.
Wednesday.
l. Salute the Flag, Children.
g Infantile Paralysis, DR.. Beale.
g. Recitation.
4. Effect of Diseased Teeth Upon the
System, DR.. Combs.
s Dialogue, Children. u
6. Milk, Mr.. Brady. y
z. Recitation.
8. Modified Milk, Miss Lockwood.
9. Song. Star Spangled Banner.
Every mother should read Fogel
and Burstan's Baby Week" ad in
his issue!