Evening star., 1922-10-10
Conference to SAGE Eiues
Of Thousands of Children
American Child Hy.
gie1,e association
Meets This Week.
Prominent Officials
and Others Viii
Gather.

In Continental Memorial Hall,
which will go down in history as the
meeting place of famous confer
ence which sought to abolish weap-
ons of warfare and reduce the in
struments Of death among men, an
other conference will convene on
Thursday of this week to consider
steps toward the abolition of men,
ace considered far more dangerous to
mankind than poison gases or bat
tleships-the ignorance which allows
thousands of little children and their
mothers to die every year, when they
might be saved. All preparations
have been completed for the thir-
teenth annual meeting Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday of this week of the
American Child Hygiene Association.
of which Herbert Hoover, Secretary
of Commerce, is president.
Thousands of Children Die.
Some idea Of the problem with
thirteen years ago-is faced is gained
from a statement from the associa-
tion. which shows that out of ap-
proximately 100000 babies born in
of them die before they are a year
old, while 10000 of their mothers
perish with them.
Secretary Hoover says: If we
could grapple with the whole child
situation for one generation. our
the moral character. sanity and sta
bilfty of our people would advance
three generations in one" And 1t is
with the hope Of graphing with this
situation Tor generation, or per-
haps more, that the association Is
90 a tn hn L. laI<
health and correct living to mothers
and children all over the country In
the last thirteen years the infant
mortality rate of the United States
has been cut nearly in half. AZ per
cent. and last year statistics showed
about 91S babies out of every 1000
born survived the first year of life
The association contends that the re-
duction shown in the last thirteen
years can be made greater. provided
launched in every community in the
country.
Large Local Committee.
A large local committee. headed by
Gilbert Grosvenor. editor of the Ma
tional Geographic Magazine and COM
posed of physicians. welfare and So
cial workers. will act as host to the
several hundred delegates from all
parts of the country who are coming
to the convention. and several local
men and women are on the program
for speeches or discussions. Secre-
tary Hoover. who retires this year as
president of the organization, will be
succeeded by DIR. Livingston Farrand.
former director of the American Red
Cross and now president of Cornell
University.
! Secretary Hoover will open the con-
vention with an address of welcome
Thursday morning at o'clock in Me-
mortal Continental Hall. following
which the convention will take up
the discussion of various phases OF
child hygiene. At 5 o'clock Thurs
day afternoon tea will be given at
the Children's Bureau. Goth and u
streets. and that evening at $3.50
o'clock public meeting in Conti-
mental Memorial Hall will be address,
ed by Secretary Hoover. DIR. l.. EN-
NETT Holt. noted children's special
ist of New York: Miss Elizabeth Fox
of the American Red Cross. and pos
;ibly Sir Auckland Geddes, the Brit
fish ambassador.
Other Meetings.
On Friday morning and afternoon
sessions will be held at the New Will
lard and the Red Cross building. re-
spectively. and that afternoon at
o'clock an informal gathering will
take place in the Corcoran Art Gal
lery, which has been loaned for the
purpose. Saturday morning and aft
ernoon sessions will be held at the