The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-09-09
Better Food
for Children Now
Advocated

The National health service, physi-
clans and Red Cross nurses all over
the country are urging better nour-
ished children as a means of promot-
ing more vigorous and stalwart
American manhood and womanhood.
The movement to bring about this
very desirable object wa sinspired by
the late Germany when the mediacl
examining boards found htat very
large per cent OF the men called to
the colors under the selective draft
we're physical detectives Many of
them were unfit for military service
by reason of desease tonsils, i'm
perfect hearing, due to curative di-
seases in childhood, poor eyesight,
due to hte same reason, decayed and
neglected teeth, and hundred and
one other things that might have been
remedied in Garlic life. This alarm
condition of things made adeep i'm
preston on the public and steps are
now being taken by the authorities in
all Of the states of the Union to cor
rect these evils in hte younger gener-
alton by the encouragement of hygenic
rules Of living and those things con-
ducing to healthier bodies and more
alert mentalities.
| Thes reforms can best be accom-
plished by courses Of instruction car
r1ed on among the children in the
public schools on the theory that IAN
ounce Of prevention is worth a pound
OF cure" The matter has been taken
mp by the Red Cross all over the
country and aneffort will be made by
its representatives in the schools this
year to teach the children that q
healthy, happy manhood and woman
hood can be advanced by the remova
In youth of those physical defects
that produce disease and suffering in
maturity and old age. Miss Mary
Du Paul, the Red Cross nurse for
Fremont County, is planning with the
opening of the school year next week
to organize nutrition classes among
the children in some Of the rural dis
tricts Of hte county, probably at
Chandler and Pyrrolite, with the hope
of stimulating an interest in physical
development and more perfectly
nourished bodies. 1t is amazing to
the uninformed, said Miss Du Paul
a day or two ago, what a large pro-
portion OF the boys and girls are
underweight and lacking in bodily
symmetry. Many of them ar too
tall for their weight and others are
underfed, due to malnutrition. Child
rem as rule, are interested in matters
pertaining to themselves and heartily
cooperate with thier teachers in such
things. A keen rivalry is engendred
among the pupils in these nutrition
tcIncSag IN w Hn
gain in avoirdupois and in healthful-
ness of appearance and Miss Du Paul
anticipates that this special work will
porve to be popular as well as benifi-
cial She has tentatively selected the
schools at Chandler and Pyrolite for
her experiments because the physi-
clans there very generously volun-
teered to assist her in her work II
successful there, nutrition classes will
likely be formed in other rural schools
of tn county.
Referring to the undernourished
child, DR.. Caroline Hodges of Chicago
formerly connected with the child well
fare work in Chicago and now asso-
ciated with the workers in charge OF
the Elizabeth Mccormick Memorial
Funds for the benefit of undernour-
ished children, in a speech before the
association said:
THE big trouble with the children
of America today is that there is an
immense mass of skinny children are
Thirty-three per cent of our children
are underweight and these are not
confined to the poor districts, for
the highest average is "a per cent, In
weli-to-do families and the lowest is
is per cent in Industrial neihgbor-
hoods.
Two excuses are commonly given
for undernourished children" accord
ing to DR.. Hodges. "One is that the
child is growing rapidly and other is
that Johnny looks like his fathers
| family"
| Th eanswer to the first reason is
that he needs more careful feeding
because he is growing fast, and to the
second, that deficiency diseases may
cause skinniness and he should be
Gore carefully fed
The S! eaAer made a plea for more
attention to the problem of under
nourishment.
why should we leave them skinny
until htey contract tuberculosis and
then spend thousands of dollars in
trying tocurethem" she said
Feed them fresh air first and then
there will be no problem of under
nourisnment and possibly no tubercu-
losis."
| MRS ISAAC III RtCn