South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-13
100000 BABES
DIE ANNUALLY
Child Welfare, is Topic of
Speeches at Meeting
NJ. E. Church.

Between zoo and 500 convention
ties attending the Indiana state sun
CAV school convention we're present
al the elementary division rally at
the First NJ. L. church last night.
The features Of the program were
lectures BY Miss Fraser and DR..
Charles ". Brewbsker, the latter
g prominent minister OF Dayton, o.,
and national Sunday school secre-
tary for the United Brethren in
Christ.
DR.. Brewbaker's subject was Tho
Care Of the Child" and that Of Miss
Fraser Play for Children The
latter impressed her hearers with
the importance Of providing health
ful recreation and play for children
and the wonderful results such
I lay has on the mental, physical
and spiritual development of chill
oren. She showed the varied ten
denotes of boys and girls in choosing
their respective kind of play. each
selecting a certain kind that is
characteristic Of the sex. For in
stance, she pointed out that in
variably the boys will choose a ra-
cial Or primitive subject, while the
girls devote their play hours more
TO domestic subjects. such as dolls,
etc. or the more refined games.
Miss Fraser concluded her re-
marks with the admonition 10 her
hearers TO relax their minds from
the more serious things of life at
regular intervals and TO learn 20
play" that is, TO make their minds
and bodies susceptible 10 heaithful
recreation and thoughts.
Can save 100000 Babies.
DR.. Brewbaker startled his audi
ence with the statement that stats
tics shows that an average OF ZOO
600 babies under five Years. Of age
Gle annually in America due to neg
iect and ignorance. and that at
least 100. 600 of these infants lives
can be saved by proper care and
education. Based on the baby cen
sus of 175,524 in Indiana, DR.. Brew
baker stated that the states quota
10 save annually is 2,592.
Quoting from United states army
and navy figures compiled by the
government, ne stated that an aver
age Of IS out Of every 100 aopH-
cants 10 the army are rejected be-
cause OF some physical deficiency
and that 20 Of every 100 applicants
70 the navy are rejected for the
same reason. OF these IS per cent
Of detectives. he said that 20 per
cent of them had physical deficien-
cies that were preventable had the
proper care and training been
given the su bject in infancy.
Dull Child May Be Normal.
A child nay be mentally dull and
still lie normal said the speaker.
The cause may be physicalf or So
cial. or both. ne asserted. pointing
out that often the mistake is made
by a parent in Furnishing a child
without finding out what the trouble
may be with il. Heredity and mall
nutrition. he declared, plays big
part in the mental or physical con-
dition OF a certain percentage Of
the children OF today.
Adenoids in children are respon-
sibIe for dullness or mind and i'll
ness Of body. stated DR.. Brewbaker.
Another cause for such physical
, conditions is mouth breathing,
which causes fat chest, deficient
smell. deficient taste. slow mental
ity and deformed faces, etc. Some
OF Us don't know what our noses
are for. Invariably a child with
adenoids Will breathe through its
mouth. Mentality and spirituality
depend almost entirely on the phys
iCal condition.
Bad Teeth One Cause.
Many physical troubles Of the
child come from bad teeth, in fact