The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-11

Junior Red Cross. it was ariounced to-
 day by Charles M. DeForest, crusader
 executive at the former or ganization's
 headquarters here.
 There are now crusaders in every
 state in the union" MT. DeForest said
 The health creed of the crusade has
 become a part or the school programme
 ia thousands of schools, both rural and
 ur ban. It has also caused innovations
 iE the curricuia of parochial and private
 schools"
 Among the larger cities where the
 movement has been adopted in all or
 part of the elementary schools he said
 are Baltimore, Birmingham, Cleveland,
 Dallas, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Min
 neapolis, Newark, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Portland (OreD, Seattle, and Washington, D. C. While primarily intended for elementary
 grades the crusade has been taken up by number of high schools and in some states the system is being taught also to student teachers in normal schools. Enlistment in the movement involves , something like passing physical exam nation as the recruit must for at least two weeks follow daily health pro- gramme. The child who lives up to 75 per
 cent of the crusaders health rules for ! two, five, ten and fifteen weeks becomes SuCCGSSlNCiy page SqulIS, hflASHl anu knight banneret in health chivalry. In
 health tournaments participated in by whole classes and schools the crusaders go a jousting for germs.
 The health chores" performance of which each child is put on his honor to record on a special card over his own signature, are as follows:
 T washed my hands before each meal today; l washed not only my face, but my ears and neck and I cleaned my finger nails today; l tried to6ny to keep l fingers, pencils and everything that
 might be unclean out of my mouth and nose; 1 drank a glass of water before 1 each meal and before going to bed, and 1 drank no tea, coffee or other injurious drinks today; I brushed my teeth thor | oughly in the morning and in the even |, ing today; I took 10 or more slow, deep | breaths of fresh air today; I played out
 doors. or with windows open, more than l 30 minutes today; 1 was in bed 10 hours l or more last night and kept my windows
 open; I tried today to sit up and stand straight to eat slowly, and to attend
 to toilet and each need of my body at
 it's regular time; I tried today to keep neat and cheerful constantly and to be l helpful to others; I took a full bath OF each day of the week that is checked | The success of the movement, accord ! ing to it's leaders, is due to the interest | in health aroused in the children py ln- 1 troducing the clements of play and TO-
 nance in the practice of hygiene, and by ] definite programme with tangible rewards 1 So eagerly have the children in certain sections of the country taken to the daily "chore" idea that a toothbrush shortage
 is reported in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
 Iawo and Oklahoma
 Growth of the movement is indicated by
 membership figures from states leading 1 in the crusade movement, as follows;
 Texas, 3100O0; Minnesota, 25o.000; Iowa.
 220, 900; Oklahoma, 175,o00; Oregon, 55.ooo; Idaho, 24557; Utah, 32,00o; Kansas. 1oO,ooo' i Arkansas, 2S,000; Alabama, 56Oo0; Wiscon-
 sin, 197o0O Pennsylvania, 150,000; Maryland, | B, GOO; South Carolina, 27,6O0; District or Columbia, 150G0; Rhode Island, 2S,00O and New Hampshire, 1000.
 The health crusade movement IS not confined to America alone. Notwithstand- l ing the war the idea has spread to for eign countries and enlistments have been reported from China, Corea, Canada, Cuba and France, MT. De Forest said.