The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-08
no SAVE THE LIVES OF 100000
SAM NEEDS THEM
Objects of Childrens Year, Starting on Liberty
Day, Told by Head of United States
Riddles, Bureau ,E>, n
BY JULIA C.. LATHROP Z.
Children's Bureau, U. S. Department

Chief Of the Chdrens Bureau u Department Of Labor
d Chdrens Year began on April 6, one year from
the day on which the United States entered the war
In the countries now nearly four years at war puDnc
and private agencies increasing their efforts 70 MAKE
it possible for achildren to grow up well and strohg
Surely in the United States with our vast and
ed resources, cannot afford to do less than
in our power to give the children Of this country the cafe
schooling and the fun they must have they are
in every sense fit men and women. NV n III
The goal Of Chdren's Year is the saving OF the ves
Of hundred thousand little children and during the year
VII do al they ca to insure al saa1sa
recreation, surer protection from harmful work.
The organization Of the Womans Committee Ct the
Council of National Defense reaches out into the smallest
community; it counts less than 100000 in
it's membership And through its cooperation commune
ties will organzenew work for child welfare where now
there none; and strengthen the work OF child Weitafe
agencies already established. :$4ssr, -
9 Thus each state will be enabled to Win it's quota Of
chdrens lives This childsaying task has been divided
among the 48 states land each state can know for the
asking how many lives are allotted to it. 49,,
To see how nearly the coming generation apploaches
normal standard Of development the first 60 days Ct
Chdrens Year will be devoted to test OF the physical
welbeing of children BY comparison OF the weight and
height of his child with the standard weights and meas
ueents for children Of different ages given on the cards
furnished by the Chidrens Bureau parent can have
measure of his child's development: E;$s ~
This index Of what is needed will show communities
how to provide child opportunity for normal de
veopment through chidrens conferences, where well
children can be examined and weighed periodically,
through clinics where sick children can be given medical
advice mother insured prenatal
care of doctor and at confinement and after care
The community will realize that it must see that every
child has abundance of clean, pure milk Much can De
accomplished through the organization OF state and city
divisions of child hygiene.
All these measures will aid in freeing the coming
generation from the defects which have caused the reec
ton of nearly third of the given medical examlna-
ton for the draft But perhaps none is as important as
the establishment of public health nursing The Punket
Nurses of New Zealand have made striking demonstration
Of their effectiveness in reducing the infant death rate
In New Zealand one baby in 20 dies in the United States
one baby in ten ButNeW Zealand is not content with
baby death rate half of ours And if New Zealand is con
fdent that she can than IS out OF every ~
babies born is it not possible for us IN the United States
ia save more than nine babies in every ten ~ ~ -
To make permanent the child saving work of Chi.
drens Year all the children throughout the country must
he ensured fair chance to develop into good citizens
under wholesome living conditions made possible 'by
decent incomes Mothers must be enabled, by adequate
Incomes to give their children the care they need at
home The community must also do it's part in providing
opporunity for wholesome play and for adequate school
inc The community must protect the child from prena-
tire or exhausting work The standards Of child protec
ton which have slowly been developed must be scrupu
lolsy upheld for the increase of juvenile delinquency
which has come with the war abroad is but sign OF the
mnholesome conditions which children have been sub
iected, and from which they all need protection.
lin tomorroWs' Daily Tribune will appear the ilrst
Of five articles on how the baby death rate was KEPT
down in New Zealand-most healthful country in the
world for babe-written by DR.. TRULY King, OF New
Zealand who the worlds foremost baby expert
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