The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-05
7PHE National Child Welfare assO-


 sources to the great task 0 arousing America to the significance o the needs of children during the war So desperate is the need for knowl edge of the proper care of children. IT many parts of our own country new born baby has less chance of life thar its father fighting in France.
 The time is ripe now. People are ready as never before, absent fathers make tender hearts, and children's year cam paign offers the opportunity for driv- ing home the lessons the war has taught England and France, and is already Reaching America of the vital need fo' conserving childhood when we are mak- ing such heavy sacrifices of our man. hood and womanhood.
 There is the greatest chance ever given the women of America to teach parents as well as communities what they must do to give the nations children healthy babies, strong minds and sturdy charac- kers.
 It is pre-en1inently the time to show she nation a great vision of a new gen. eration well born and well trained; a generation equal to the task of recon structing the world after the war. By far the mos: important part of the chil- s1rens year campaign is it's educational features. The National Child Welfare as- sociation has given it's efforts to provd ing such educational and exhibit ma terial as is best adopted to the purpose. We here in Birmingham have recently had such an exhibit, and from it we learned that only by given attention to khe physical condition of children can B higher standard of physical fitness be secured for the new generation that is to take the place of our men who are so freely sacrificing themselves upon the altar of democracy and humanity. One-third of the men who were re- 5ected in the first draft on account or physical defects would have been per feet specimens of manhood had not some of the childish ailments been neglected The children's bureau, United States Department of Labor, has found that the height and weight of a child ana their relation to each other are an index to its health and development IT a child is found who is falling below the average height and weight for its age, it plainly shows that the advice of a doctor should be sought as to diet and proper care.
 The weighing and measuring campaign which the child welfare committee Of the woman's council of defense is going to launch June 1o-16, is for the purpose Of awakening parents as we'll as communi- ties to the importance of having pu5- lie health nurses, consultation centers for babies and young children. It is also intended to aid in safeguarding the milk for the protection of our children.
 Mrs. I. ". Broughton is the county chairman and Mrs. Charles Caldwell the city chairman for the weighing and measuring tests, and all parents in the city and county should get in touch with these chairmen and arrange to enter their little ones in this national test.
 If We are to save 100000 babies during the children,s year we must begin now before the hot weather makes too deep inroads into the little army that is struggling towards health and happi- ness beset by such an insdious host of germ enemies that only the most skillful and watchful can keep at bay.
 The children's bureau has prepared cards for these tests giving a table of average heights and weights for boys and girls at birth, at every month Of age from the sixth to forty-eighth, and at every year from to 16. One-half the card is to be kept by the parents 1t
 
 has blanks for subsequent records so parents can watch the childs develop ment. The other half of the card pro- vides also for recording heights and weights of the child at time of national test. It will be used by the local con- mittee in analyzing the facts about its own community and then it will be for wardcd to the children's bureau at Washington.
 BIRTHDAY PARTY
 Little Miss Barbara Brown, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Thomas Scott Brown, entertained a few friends at her home at Norwood yesterday in honor of her sixth birthday.
 MISS BLISS RECITAL
 Miss Emma Bliss will present part ot her music class in recital this after noon at o'clock at her residence studio. Those who will take part are Marlow Benham, Maria Powers, Gladys and Blanche Butler, Mamie Duke, Lil- Han and Henrietta Jackson, and Geneva and Thelma Yarborough. TYNES-WHATLEY
 MT. and Mrs. J. w Whatley an- nounce the engagement of their daugh- ter. Edith Elizabeth to Lieutenant William Fisher Tynes. the marriage to be solemnized at the home of her par ents, 224S Arlington avenue, at an carly date.
 LITTLE MISS SHIREMAN'S
 RECITAL
 The fourth of the series of piano pro- grammes presented by pupils of Mrs. M. c. Vail will be given by Margaret