Evening star., 1919-03-02
HEALT CRUSADE
WINNING RECRUITS
Requests Received Indicate
Demand Here for Much
Broader Scope.
LETTERS SENT LEADERS

The modern health crusade inaugu-
rated among 25,G00 school children of
the District last Sunday. to continue
fifteen weeks. is becoming more COM
prehensive. according 10 information
received from the Junior Red Cross
and the District tuberculosis .Nssocia-
tion which are conducting the joint
health campaign.
Mrs. L. II, Grant, the crusade leader,
states that interest in the campaign
is spreading not only. to the eight
grades OF the grammar schools. but
also 10 Sunday schools and high
schools. She says that reQaests have
come from sunday school teachers and
parents Of high school pupils chat the
bars be iat down arG the contest be
made wider in scope so aS 10 include
children in them
Letter From Mother
one mother Of a high school pupil, in
Z letter &c AIRS. Grant. said:
AS a mother of one of the high
school boys. J write that | am sorry
the health crusade IS not to be carried
into the high schools. 1t is one of
the hoDefui signs Of the future that
this splendid crusade has been in
stitutel. However. for one feel that
the hahits of the ct,ldren of the high
scnoo! ages are rot so fixed that they
CanEet be Influenced by such a con-
test. VIII you not give this matter
serious thought"
y father, who has two sons in the
grammar schools who have entered
the contest, has written Mrs. Grant
pTaising the movement. He is also
4 Sunday school teacher and adds in
his letter:
Ny class of junior boys in Sunday
school talked this matter over and
found them to be very much inter-
ested"
Another SUNDAY school teacher told
Miss LYDIA NJ BaSSett. the director
of the Junior membership of the Red
Cross in Washington, that her pupils
were much more anxious to discuss
the health crusade than their Sunday
school lessons.
nuunces. there come splendid reports
of interest taken by both parents and
children in the campaign Two small
ragged urchins were overheard in a
/ heated argument as to whether the
( rules Of the contest required that
they brush their teeth twice or three
/ times a, day
Request From Physician.
| A physician of the city, whose chill
dren failed to receive the health
/ chores folders given the pupils when
| lHeS were distributed. IoOR up the
matter with the District tuberculosis
! Association and made a special re-
quest that these be supplied 50 that
| his children might enter the contest.
A social worker asked the mother
/ of a family. whom she was visiting.
whether her children had entered the
1 crusade. The mother said that she
| did not know, but when the visitor
explained to her about the chores
/ the mother said she guessed her boy
must have entered because he washed
! his hands thar morning before
breakfast, a thing which she had
never before seen him do The boy
/ has asked his mother to buy him
! nailbrusA.
/ During. the past week Mrs. Grant
J talked to pupils of forty-three classes.
! representing 1.5s5 pupils. Schools vis-
jted included the Peabody. Wallach.
Arthur, Congress Heights and Thomp-
son. Mrs. Grant says that she viii be
glad to speak to Sunday schools. par
/ ent-teaeher associations, women's cF
mothers clubs or any groups inter
| ested in the campaign Her address is
at the Social Service House, 923 II street
northwest. and the telephone number
| is Main $50.