Arizona republican., 1920-11-13

bannere. cup, until one state shall win the three legs by three years of record breaking crusade work. Iowa now has the cup. With these aevices and other incidental attractions, the cooperation of the children and their parents is maintained.
 Here in the District, Vice President Marshall and General Pershing have awarded honors on different occasions. General March knighted little Jack Baker, the son of the secretary of war, when he won the right to enter the advanced order. And the Prince of Wales bought the first Red Cross Christmas seals from a little health crusader during his visit here last fall.
 Something new is always being done to keep the fire of the children's inter est burning steadily. The results show that instead of a flare of enthusiasm and clean teeth and faces, followed by a slump into grime and untidiness, the project spreads and is taking on look of permanence.
 Chinese Crusaders
 In China, few schools are strug gling against considerable odds to join the health crusade. The number of children organized is insignificant in a country of 40o,00o,0oo people, many of them starvation poor. But it is re- garded as an encouraging start, for in two communities bathhouses have been built so that regular bathing could be introduced into towns hitherto un- washed.
 Japan is crusadiuS. too, and has cele- brated in typically Japanese way, by producing and exporting toothbrushes of bamboo with fibre bristles at the remarkably low price of four cents. Cheap brushes may help to solve the difficult problem of how to get indi- vidual toothbrushes into families where every penny is practically spent before it is earned
 Korea is attempting the crusade, and Alaska, Canada, Cuba, Porto Rico, Italy and 500 schools fin France. From France comes the story that in certain districts a peasant bathes only before his con- firmation by the church, and again be- fore his wedding. This is due partly to the carcity of water, but the health crusade leaders succeeded in putting a bath on the family calendar oftener than on state occasions. In one village, where the children seemed to have no idea how to go about a bath, the teacher took one or two to her house every week and let them watch her bathe her baby in it's tub. The chore of drinking four glasses of water day and no coffee or tea or other injurious drink had to be modified in France so that the crusaders promise to drink coffee, with milk instead of the GUS , tomary black coffee, and wine diluted 1, with water instead of pure wine. : Some people have asked if the dra- matization of health is really popular , with children of the grammar grades
 MT. DeForest maintains that 1t is, oth- erwise the crusade would have died z natural death long since. Washington
 is a typical city where the project ha:
 been put over with swing, and it,
 figures show 35,505 children enrolled 1T
 the crusade. practically all of the pupils , from the third to the eighth grades
 Of these 34,S44 became pages, in tn, last crusade: 25,454 became squires l 20.244 became knights; and 1922 , knights banneret.
 If you have any doubts that healtl |. education of some kind is needed fl !. the schools consider that of the 22,000. 2 900 school children in the United State . . 10000 900 have defective hearing, most 2 lly curable; 5,00O,000 have defectiv 7 eyes: over 100000 have, or have ha |. tuberculosis; and between three an 7 five million suffer from malnutritior