The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-09
Educational Campaign VIII
Show Value of MIX.
30 Per CENT UNDERWEIGHT
Children May Be Brought Back
to Normal, Says Report.
In One School Is Out of "a
Were Below Standard.

The week Of October 11-1s has been
set aside as "Use-More-MillS' week,
for the entire state of Kansas. During
this week an educational campaign 10
set forth the value Of milk as a food
for growing children will be put on in
every school district in the state.
According to public health officials.
nearly 80 per cent of all the children
in the United States are underweight.
A countrywide survey in Marion coun-
| ty, Kansas. last fall. showed that 60
per cent of all the school children In
that county were underweight.
Tests in Five Schools.
A test was made in five of the
schools of the county to note the ef-
feet of milk in bringing the children
up to normal. In every school where
the experiments were conducted, the
children gained weight. In one of the
schools fifteen out Of twenty-four pu-
pills in the first. second and third
grades were underweight. After three
months of using milk. it was found
that only three of the children were
underweight- Nine had attained stand
ard weight, and three had become
slightly overweight. One of the three
still underweight was only / per cent
below normal. This means that SO
per cent of those who were under
weight had attained standard or be-
1t is believed that the percentage OF
children underwsight in many other
counties is as great as in Marion
county and the Use More-Milk' cam
paien is being put on to get every
child in the state to use milk in its
diet as q means of promoting normal
growth and development.
Supplies All Elements.
Milk is the only food that supplies
all of the food elements which the
new born animal must have in order
to live and grow.
Milk, Altho 1t is a liquid. contains
a lower percentage Of water than the
edible portion of Strawberries. cram
berries, peaches, string beans, CAP
bage, cucumbers. or lettuce.
81 Per Cent Water.
The percentage of water in milk Is
81 per cent and the solids g per cent.
All of the solids are highly digesti-
BILE, making milk the most perfect food
known. 1T Is rich in body building
substances, such AS protein, lime and
phosphorus, and in energy producing
substances, such as sugar and fats.
Every growing child should have all
the milk it can drink.
Small Advance in Price.
Milk has advanced less in price since
the war than practically any other
article of food. Sugar has advanced
400 per cent. potatoes, so per cent,
flour 200 per cent, bread ITS per cent,
and butter 100 per cent. Milk has adj
vanced only 81 per cent. One Of the
few articles to advance less than milk
is sirloin steak, which has advanced
only so per cent since 1914.
should Have Milk for Lunch.
Every school child in Kansas who
carries lunch to school should include
in the lunch basket two one-half pint
bottles Of milk. One bottle of the
milk should be used at the first recess
period and the other at the last recess
period, according to Mis- Rena A.
Faubion, specialist in milk utilization
OF the Kansas State Agricultural col
lege, who is directing the ''Use-More-
Mig campaign, which will be put on
in this part of the county. and in other
sections of Kansas next week. Milk
is a necessity for growing children.
Miss Faubion says, because it contains.
all of the essentials for normal growth.
Many Kansas children are under
weight, not because they do not re-
ceive enough food. but because they
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