The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-05-04

hcSil uicCtOStu lut SPEAKER SLdltu, ~
the operation of the selectiye draft
act and by sanitary surveys made in
various states by the Public Health
Service, Of which he is head. The
report of the Provost Marshall GER
eral shows that approximately 20 per
cent of registrants examined were re-
jected on account of physical and men
tai defects, he pointed out. The mr.
and most important fact to be graspad
in this Connection, he argued, is that
in a large percentage Of instances the
physical defects THAI so commonly
handicap adults in the struggle for a
livelihood would not exist if they had
been properly dealt with in chilanoou
DR. Blue said that in the states
where the need of medical inspection
OF school children has been fully rec
ognized, local effort in that direCtio.
has been greatly handicapped by lacA
of funds and organizations This Is
not the fault. he asserted, of State
school and health authorities adding
that in Europe the problem has beer
met by the national governments as
Stunning the greater share of the eX-
pense, thus increasing both the mil
itary and industrial efficiency OF tht
nation.
Health surveys and investigations
made in various states by the Public
Health Service in the past four year.
had anticipated the disclosures of the
selective draft act, ne asserted Th'
! first complete survey OF rural sch)Or
was made in the county of X...., 2tS'
children being examined, 1858 boy
and 1885 girls Visual imperrection'
were noted in Az per cent of the boys
and 2S.2 per cent of the girls. Sixty
per cent OF the boys and so per cen
Of the girls had defective teeth Men
tai tests showed that nearly 8 ne
cent were below the average mental
ly. 1t was pointed out, moreover, tina
a greater number of rural school chill
dren did not suffer from preventabl'
diseases than is the case in cities, the
proportion being about the same TO
rural and urban populations
Dr. Davis Makes Address.
DR. Kathrene Bement Davis, forme
commissioner of correction Of New
York under Mayor Mitchell, and chair
man of the parole commission, and a
present director OF the section on
I Women's Work, division of social by
giene. commission on training activi-
ties. for the war department, spoke
at the public health conference, on tho
subject Of safeguarding the men in
the service. She referred to the nee
essity OF clean communities as an
fadjunct to the training camps, and
said that cooperation from the local
authorities would be necessary. she
urged the women to help create a de-
nand through their officials tor this
CO operation, adding that one-half OF
the public sentiment is made by the
women, and they could engage in no
more important work. Relative to the
opportunity for great advances to be
made now, in war time, she said tina.
as much progress had been made in
the last year In this respect as had
been made in ten years before or
could have been made in another ten
years without the war
Jane Adams Talks.
students OF primitive society be-
lieve that women were the first agri-
culturists," declared Miss Jane Adj
dams OF Hull House, Chicago in point
ing out the obligation of women in
connection with the worlds food sup
ply
THE spirits OF corn were always
represented in the ancient myths as
feminine. and women for a long time
were the only inventors and devel-
opers Of agricultural processes" she
continued The desire to grow food
for her children, led TO a fixed abode
and real home from which our do
nestle morality and customs are sup
posed to have originated This but IL
Illustrates that the present situation
may be woman's opportunity, because
food no longer is regarded from a
money making standpoint but from
its human use"
Detailing how practically the entire
civilized world is now subsisting on
rations, Miss Adams declared that
the women responsible for twenty
two million kitchens in America
should forego certain old habits of
wastefulness and apply measures of
thrift practiced by the women of
generation ago. who made their own
candles and soap from fats that 9TH
erwise would have been wasted.
The peasant women of Europe have