Evening star., 1918-04-14
CH|[DREN'S YEAR TO
| START TOMORROW
All Babies and Children Under
Six in D. C. to Be
Registered.
PURPOSE OF MOVEMENT


bfes and children under six years OLE
In the District of Columbia is to begin
The registration is to continue for ter
days, according to announcement o.
the children's bureau and the woman
committee of the Council Of Nationa
Defense. in charge Of the program fol
childrens year.
The purpose, it is stated. is to weigh
and measure every child under sia
years old in the United States. if thai
is possible. with the object of obtain
ing data as to health conditions ant
physique Of the children and babies, sc
as to instruct mothers as to the care
necessary to put physically deficient
and underweight children into gooo
condition and give them a better chance
to grow up and develop into first-class
specimens of manhood and womanhood
z 1t is estimated that there are abou,
10000 children in the District under six
years of age.
President Wilson Explains Object.
The purpose of the registration
weighing and measuring is set forth in
. letter from President Wilson to Sec
: retary Wilson of the Department OF
Labor last week. In his letter the
President said
MY dear Mr.. Secretary: .-.
81 Next to the duty of doing everything
possible for the soldiers at the front
there could be, it seems to me. no more
patriotic duty than that of protecting
the children, who constitute one-third
OF our population.
Z Death Rate Lowered in England.
.The success of the efforts made in
England in behalf of the children is
2 evidenced by the fact that the infant
death rate in England for the second
year of the war was the lowest In heI
history. Attention is now being given
to educate and labor conditions for
children by the legislatures of both
France and England. showing that the
conviction among the allies is that the
protection of childhood is essential to
winning the war.
3 3 II am very glad that the same proc
esses are being set afoot in this coun-
2 the children's bureau and the woman's
committee of the Council of National
Defense for making the second year OF
the war one of united activity on behalf
Of children. and in that sense a chill
dren's year.
II trust that the year will not only
! see the goal reached of saving one
hundred thousand lives of infants and
young children. but that the work may
20 successfully develop as to set up
s1or the health. education and work of
the American child. Cordially and sin
esrely yours,
~ WOODROW WILSON"
-, Lesson Learned From Draft.
I One-third of the young men called in
. the first draft, it is shown by figures
In the office of the provost marshal
general. wereirejected for physical rea-
fc hot
physical DEFICIENCIES which caused the
rejection Of these young men were due
TO causes that could have been removed
IT attention had been paid to them in
schildhood.
j It is further brought out in PAM
phlet issued by the chiIdren's bureau
recently that 800 600 children under six
years OF age died in 1917. Approxi-
mately 100000 of these deaths could
nave been prevented by proper care of
; and attention to the children, with
correction and elimination of weak
nesses contributing to lowered vitality
and decreased powers of resistance in
the child.
year campaign Is to educate mothers in
the proper care of their children, with
the consequent elimination of at least
one-third of the infant mortality of
the country.
Eleven Registration Stations.
Eleven registration stations have been
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
which the stations are to be kept open
for the next ten days. are as follows:
Infant Welfare Center. No. 1,
and streets-Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. 10 to 12 am; THURSDAY
and Friday. to pm.
; Infant Welfare Center, No. 2, 25oa
pennsylvania avenue-Monday and
Friday, to IL am; Monday. Wednes-
day and Saturday. 1 to pm
Infant Welfare Center, No. 8, Chill
dren's Hospital, 18th and v streets
Monday. Wednesday and Friday, to
1880 am.
Infant Welfare Center. No. 4, $50 c
street northwest-Monday. Wednesday
and Friday. l to pm.
Infant Welfare Center, No. 8, 1926
s4A street southwest-Monday,s 8 to II
a-m-: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
1 TO 4 pm.
Infont Welfare Center. No. 6, Cas-.
zualty Hospital. 7th street and Massa-
schusetts avenue northeast-Monday
"Wednesday and Thursday. 10 to Il
se-m-; Monday. Wednesday and Thurs
day. 2 to pm.
Friendship House. s2s Virginia ave-
niue southeast. Monday. Wednesda,
and Friday. 10 to 12 am; Tuesday
Thursday and Saturday, 2 70 I pm.
& Neighborhood House. 46s1s N stree,
touthwest-Monday. Wednesday and
Friday. 10 to IL am; Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday, Q to 4:30 pm.
Noel House. 1868 Kramer street
northeast. Monday. Wednesday and
Friday. 10 to IL am; Tuesday. Thurs
day and Saturday, / to 4 pm
Colored Social Settlement, IS L street
eouthwest. Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. 10 to IL am: Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday. 2 to 4:a0 pm
Van Buren, School. Anacostia-Daily
30 to II am.
Ars. Cross Chairman of Committee.
Mrs. Whitman Cross Is chairman o,
tho committee directly in charge of the
task Of registering, weighing ant
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. c