The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-12
PLAYING THE GAME OF
KEEPING HEAL THY
Grown-Ups Join 10000 Riddles
as Modern Crusaders in Col
orado Schools.

Did you ever keep a box score on
your personal habits?
Ever figure out your batting aver
age i'll such matters as cleaning your
teeth, taking baths and sleeping with
your windows wide open?
Over 10000 children in the grade
schools of Colorado are doing these
very things, day in and day out, and
they are mighty proud of their score
cards, too. These youngsters are mem
bers of the Modern Health Crusade,
movement to make joyous game of
those habits of personal hygiene which
insure good health.
Although the Crusade was devised
primarily for children in the grade
schools, some of their teachers are
taking 1t up. One young lady, teach
er in a school in Lake County, admit
ted that she had joined and wrote as
follows to Colorado tuberculosis AS
sociatIon: 'Send an extra chore card
for me, because am enrolled with my
pupils
The health chores which are checked
up daily and weekly are as follows:
1. 1 washed my hands before each
meal today
2. 1 washed not only my face but
my ears and neck and 1 cleaned my
finger nails today.
8. 1 kept fingers, pencils and every
thing likely to be unclean or injurious
put of my mouth and nose today.
4. 1 brushed my teeth thoroughly
after breakfast and after the evening
meal today.
5. I took ten or more slow, deep
breaths of fresh air today. I was care
full to protect others if I spit, coughed
DR. sneezed.
6. l played outdoors or with win
dows open more than thirty minutes
today.
Z. I was in bed ten hours or more
last night and kept my windows open.
s. 1 drank four glasses of water,
including a drink before each meal,
and drank no tea, coffee, nor other in
furious drinks today.
g. l tried hard today to eat only
wholesome food and to eat slowly.
10. 1 tried hard today to sit up and
stand up straight; to keep neat, cheer
full and clean-minded; and to be help
full to others.
II. / took a full bath on each of the
days of the week that are checked
on the card.
A child who enters as a candidate
must make score of at least 75 per
cent of these chores for two weeks in
order to become Crusader. He then
receives a certificate of enrolment
and the rank of Page. After three
weeks more, total of five weeks, he
is graded as Squire. Five weeks
more, total of ten weeks, and he be-
comes a Knight. Another five weeks,
or a total of fifteen weeks, bring him
the title of Knight Banneret. For each
grade a pin of appropriate design is
awarded and the children are exceed
ingly proud of these badges of merit.
Contests are carried ON between
schools or between rooms in the same
school for pennants to be awarded to
the group in which the largest per-
centage of pupils have attained the
grade of Knight Banneret. Pennants
have been won by schools in LaPlata,
Sedgwicll, Weld and Prowers counties
in Colorado, during the last school
year, and more contests are under way
now.
The Crusade is conducted here under
the direction of the Colorado Tubercu-
losis Association and has been intro
duced into 80 of the 63 counties Of the
state. 1t is part of the great prevent
i've campaign which is being waged in
every part of the country to fortify
the next generation against tuberculo-
sis, the disease which killed 100000
persons throughout the United States
last year and which caused the death
of 2030 persons in Colorado alone in
the twelve months ending May l, 1920.
More than 100000 children in the
United States are in the Modern
Health Crusade and the aim of the
Colorado tuberculosis Association is
to attain a 100 per cent enrolment
TUBERCULOSIS DEATHS REPRESENT