Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-12-12
Ungraded Rural Rooms i'm Each
County to Have Chance to
Win Unique Trophy
WOMAN'S STUDY CLUB
IN CHARGE LOCAL SALES
School Children Will Canvass the Resi-
dences.-All Should Buy
AT Least Few
Seals

SeVenty-One OnerOOm lmgraQed rur
al schools, one III every county of the
state, ami five second class graded
schools will be equipped for the weigh
ing and measuring of children as a di-
rect result of this years Red Cross
Christmas seal sale. Seventy-siX sin
gle LEAN platform scales with adjust
able measuring rod attachment have
been purchased by the Wisconsin Anti
Tuberculosis Association from the Fair
bankS-MOrSe Company of BelOit and
will be awarded as seal sale prizes.
The contest for the One-r0om sched-
ule will be a county contest, the scale
being awarded to the school with an
enrolment or twelve or more making
the highest per capita sale of seals in
the county. The graded schools of the
second class will compete against other
schools of the same class throughout
the state. In the One-rO0m ungraded
schools the prize becomes the property
of the school winning it for one year
only. If it is won by the same school
three years it becomes the permanent
possession of the school.
Awarding of scales as seal sale
prizes is a part of the active campaign
that has been begun in the state to re-
duce the prevalence Of under-nOurish-
ment among school children. 1t Is
agreed by health experts that the per-
iOdical weighing and measuring OF
children, keeping record of gains made.
h
as mental is of great Importance in the
discovery of serious malnutritiOn and
i'm stimulating measures to correct II.
An additional prize offer makes ii
possible for every SchOOlroOm i'll the
state to win Il seal sale honor for an at
tractive health chart which will be
awarded to every rural school room
making Il seal sale of So or over and TO
every city school room making sale
of So or over. Approximately 1000
rural schools participate annually III
the Christmas seal sale and a large
number of these will receive prizes. A
special number of The Crusader, con-
tanning five illustrated stories for chill
dren and a number of health and seal
sale songs has been issues by the Wis
consin Anti-Tuberculosis Association
for use in the schools.
The selection of scales for this year $
prizes is in keeping with the campaign
TO reduce the prevalence OF under-n0ur-
ishment among school children. Health
experts agree that the periodical weigh
ing and measuring of children. keeping
record of gains made, and regular re-
ports made to parents on the physical
as we'll as the mental progress OF chill
dren is of great Importance in the dls-
cOverv of cases of serious malnutritlon
and in stimulating measures to correct
it,
In order to promote the widest pos
sible interest in the campaign for a
scale in every school room. the trophy
scales awarded to he ungraded
schools will become the property OF the
schools winning them for one year only
and at the end of that time the title to
them must he defended. A school win
ming Il scale in three seal sale contests
becomes it's permanent owner.
Sale of Christmas seals locally is i'll
charge of the Woman'S Study Club
Canvass of the business places OF the
city is being made by Mesdames b. Nj.
Dresden. NJ. A. Peoples, I. +. Slattery
NJ. G. Martin, S. l.. CHECKER, Charles
Eisenach. Canvass of the residences
will be made by the school children.
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