Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-21

afternoon to which all parents were
invited and which was held for the
purpose of laying this work before
them, not more than % were pres
ent. DR.. Herschel Smith, who is
keenly alive to the health movement.
and is cooperating in a splendid way
gave a helpful talk on the causes
of malnutrition among children and
ways of combating it.
We as a nation respond quickly
to the call from overseas for the
feeding of children who are starv-
ing in Europe, at the same time
overlooking the same condition in the
petted children of our own families
often produced by over-indulgence
children are being weighed and meas
ured in all the schools of the coun.
ty, in the rural districts the interest
being especially keen, and it is ar
interesting fact that 50 far the Am
CIRCUS school has the highest per
cent of malnourished children yet
found, due, no doubt, to the easy
access to candies and heavy sweets
The public must be awakened TO
the Importance of proper feeding fol
the children. The children who d.
not measure up to the standard be
came in later years the men and
women who are not physically fit TO
life work which they are called to
do. The undernourished boys of the
present time will not become stand
ard bearers in the future conflicts in
the country's time of need; the girls
Of today who are not properly pre-
pairing for the structural foundation
cannot become the mothers of giant
men, either mentally or physically.
Through the health work being
done in the schools many of the chill
dren will climb to their normal
weight line and go over the top, 9th
ers will need the earnest co-opera-
.;on of their parents, with the remov-
al of their physical defects before
they can reach their standard weight.
At the weighing concluding the
second month of the campaign, the
records showed that 400 had gained,
Al lost, and stood still. In one
family where the mother was vitality
interested in her four children, the
result showed at the end of two
months one had gained pounds, an
other 3, another and the fourth
, 10 pounds.
Miss Evelyn Billiard, director Of
home economics at the Agricultural
school, has been promoting this
health crusade and proper food cor
the students at the college since the
beginning Of the fall term, and the
splendid result shows in the improve
ment Of the students in their study
records as we'll as in their physical
well-being. Principal France states
/ that during the years of his admin
/ istration he has not had more
/ splendid body Of young men and
young women who are doing every
minute of the day the tasks assigned
/ to them with that degree of cheerful
/ ness and happiness that only well
nourished body can give to the mind.
Miss Billiards. records show some re-
markable figures, and the students
! themselves, being 50 keenly alive to
the benefits they derive from the
weighing campaign, are assisting in
every way. to further the movement.
Mrs DIN Williams, who has just
returned from a six weeks course at
State Normal, where this feature of
rural work was stressed, is enthusi-
astically carrying her methods into
the rural districts not already edu-
Gated to the health crusade methods,
and she hopes to enlist every student
in Sumter county in the campaign
/ before the close of the school term.
No Uon1ap bac entered the con-