Imperial Valley press., 1918-06-12
new CAMPAIGN IN
CALIFORNIA TO Save
BABIES
Drive Under Chiidren's Year
Committee Of Defense
Council for Infants
Save 100000 ba~ies in 1918!

1t is the United States Government
which speaks-your Government and
mine. Through its Department OF
Labor, Children's Bureau, the Federal
Government mas sent that call out TO
the mothers of America-SAVE 100,-
goo babies in this second year of the
great war,
Last year 100000 babies under six
years of age died in the United States.
Authorities agree that 600 of those,
or one-third of the entire number,
died from preyentable causes. Think
OF it-enough babies to people city
the size of our National Capital,
Washington. And these might have
been saved. if everybody concerned
had done one little whit more.
This is Childrens Year-endorsed
by the President of the United States.
who in a letter to Secretary Wilson
of the Department of Labor, wrote
Next 10 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 chill
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population
And he goes one step further in his
endorsement of the Children's Year
by adding, II trust that the year will
not only see the goal reached of saw
ing one hundred thousand lives of in
fants and young children, but that the
work may so successfully develop as
to set up certain irreducible minimum
standards for the health education and
work of the American child"
That in brief is the national pro
gramme for Chldren's Year-the say.
ing of 100000 babies. and the estab
lishment of certain standards for child
welfare and development.
The Woman's Committee of the Ma,
Jiona Council of Defense was the or
gdniZatiOn chosen to put into motion
he work of Children's Year. 1t in
turn reached out to the Woman Com
mittees OF the Councils of State De
Tense for help. California's Woman $
Committee of the Councils Of National
and State Defense named DR.. Adelaide
BroWn, OF san Francisco, California
ChiIdren's Year chairman. There are
few women in California who are as
we'll fitted as DR.. Brown to undertake
the task of helping our state go over
he top in this nation wide drive to
save baby lives.
CatfOrnia's quota of the 100, 900
called for by the Children's Bureau is
i,S22. One thousand eight hundred
and twenty-five babies must be saved
from unnecessary and preventable
death this year if California is to reach
her allotment in the child welfare
campaign. Your county and every
other one of California's fifty-eight
counties has definite number of that
1922 babies to account for. Your
County Council Woman's Committee
chairman has appointed a leader for
that work 1t is the part of you
mothers OF California-to cooperate
to the fullest extent with all phases
of the work
weigh and measure your baby" is
the first and important thing on the
programme just now How much does
your child weigh, and how much does
he measure? Those are questions for
mothers to find an answer for since
the little tots general welfare may be
gauged thereby.
June is the month when all of the
mothers all over California and the
United States are asked to submit
their -b2--!aS f1-- zee 81 -ercentt. in the