Evening star., 1918-04-14
(,H|LDREN'S YEAR TO
/ START TOMORROW
All Babies and Children Under
Six in D. c. to Be
Registered.
PURPOSE OF MOVEMENT

bies and children under SIX years Oh
IN the District of Columbia is to begin
The registration is to continue for tel
days. according to announcement o
the chiIdren's bureau and the woman
committee Of the Council of Nationa
Defense, in charge of the program 70
childrfns year.
The purpose, II is stated, is to weigl
and measure every child under si1
years old in the United States. If tha
Is possible, with the object of obtain
ing data as to health conditions ant
physique of the children and babies, 81
as to instruct mothers as to the car,
necessary to put physically deficien
and underweight children into goot
condition and give them better chance
to grow up and develop into first-clas
specimens of manhood and womanhood
. 1t is estimated that there are abou
10000 children in the District under si'
years of age.
President Wilson Explains Object.
The purpose of the registration
weighing and measuring is set forth il
. letter from President Wilson to Sec
Labor last week. In his letter tn,
President said:
MY dear Mr.. Secretary:
- Next to the duty of doing everythin!
possible for the soldiers at the front
there could be, it seems to me, no NOR,
patriotic duty than that of protecting
the children, who constitute one-thirt
OF our population.
Death Rate Lowered in England.
'"The success of the efforts made II
England in behalf of the children Il
Z evidenced by the fact that the infan
death rate in England for the secon'
year OF the war was the lowest in he
history. Attention is now being givel
to educate and labor conditions fo
children by the legislatures of boil
France and England, showing that th
conviction among the allies is that tn
protection of childhood is essential t,
winning the war.
II am very glad that the same proc
esses are being set afoot in this coun
try. and heartily approve the plan O
: the children's bureau and the woman
committee of the Council of Nationa
Defense for making the second year o
the war one of united activity on behal
Z of children, and in that sense a chill
sdren's year.
II trust that the year will not onl,
see the goal reached of saving on,
hundred thousand lives of infants ant
young children. but that the work may
80 successfully develop as to set uI
certain irreducible minimum standards
for the health. education and work o1
the American child. Cordially and sin.
cerely yours,
- WOODROW WILSON"
- Lesson Learned From Draft.
( one-third of the young men called ir
the first draft, it is shown by figures
In the office of the provost marsha,
general. were rejected for physical rea.
sons. 1t is known that many of the
physical DEFICIENCIES which caused the
rejection Of these young men were due
TO causes that could have been removed
II attention had been paid to them il
childhood.
8 1t is further brought out in. "a pam
phlet issued by the children's bureau
recently that 100000 children under 81,
years of age died in 1917. APPROX
mateiy 100000 of these. deaths coult
have been prevented by proper care o,
and attention to the children, witt
correction and elimination of weak.
nesses contributing to lowered vitality
and decreased powers of resistance il
the child.
5 One Of the purposes of the children,
year campaign is to educate mothers IL
the proper care of their children, with
the consequent elimination of at Ieas
one-third of the infant mortality Of
the country.
Eleven Registration Stations.
Eleven registration stations have bee,
established in this city. the main of
nee being at 1888 G street northwest
The places at which children may be
registered. with the hours during
Tor the next ten days. are as follows:
Infant Welfare Center. No. 1
Georgetown University Hospital, s5ti
and streets-Monday, Wednesda,
and Friday. 10 to - am: Thursday
and Friday. to 8 pm.
: Infant Welfare Center, No. 2, $50:
Pennsylvania avenue-Monday anc
Friday, to IL am; Monday, Wednes
day and Saturday. to pm
: Infant Welfare Center, No. 8, Chill
dren's Hospital. 18th and " streets
Monday. Wednesday and Friday. t,
1880 am.
Infant Welfare Center. No. 4, $50 {
street northwest-Monday, Wednesda,
and Friday. to pm.
Infant Welfare Center, No. s, 123
AZ street southwest-Monday,9 8 to /.
sA.m-: Monday. Tuesday and Thursday
4 to 4 pm.
1nfont Welfare Center, No. g. Cas-
ualty Hospital 7th street and Massa
schusetts avenue northeast-Monday
"Wednesday and Thursday. 10 to i
am; Monday. Wednesday and Thurs
day, to pm.
Friendship House. 326 Virginia ave
nue. southeast Monday, Wednesda,
and Friday, 10 to IL am; Tuesday
Thursday and Saturday. 9 20 ( pm.
. Neighborhood House. 4661a N stree
outhYest-Monday. Wednesday ant
Friday. 10 to IL am; Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday, 2 to 1870 pm.
Noel House. 1863 Kramer stree
northeast. Monday. Wednesday ant
Friday. 10 to IL am; Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday. to pm.
Colored Social Settlement, IS L stree
Southwest. Monday, Wednesday an,
Friday. 10 to IL am: Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday, 2 to 4:30 pm.
Van Buren School, Anacostia-Daily
40 to IL am.
Mrs. Cross Chairman of Committee
Mrs. Whitman Cross is chairman O
the committee directly in charge of tn
task Of registering, weighing an,
measuring the children under six year
old in the District Of Columbia Asso
ciated with her IN the work are Mis-
Mary Gwynn. Miss Marion Oliver, Mrs
Archibald Hopkins, Mrs. Louis Brown
low. Miss Estelle Wheeler. Mrs. Edn
Bushee, William Baldwin, DR.. w. {