The Washington times., 1923-03-19
To HELP
|. 5. CHILD
SAVING
Great Organization Planned 20
Reduce Motherhood and
Infant Mortality.
BY ROBERT 5. THORNBURGH.
International News serviee.

international News s1rviee.
The vast energies Of the Ameri-
can relief Administration, which IN
the last four years has saved from
starvation more than 5000, 900 Iu-
Tppean children, were pledged today
BY Herbert Hoover to q nationwide
campaign In behalf Of the childhood
Of America.
The unborn babies and their moth.
ers, and the little ones IN the con-
gested Industrial and backward sec.
tons Of the nation win be offered
fighting chance IN life by tho
headed by Secretary Hoover. This
organization win be to America
what the A. r. A. has been to Bel
GUM and devastated areas Of France
and Russia.
Hoover hopes to erase from the
United States the stigma of having
one Of the highest motherhood and
infant mortality rates Of the civil.
lied countries OF the globe.
To Be Guided By Experience.
Pointing out. In an exclusive IN
terview with the international News
Service, the Importance OF tranaIat-
ing into American child life. the
vast knowledge gained from expe-
r!ences In Europe, Hoover declared
the American Relief Administration
has undertaken as q voluntary
Of the newly organized American
Child Health Association, e
Our physicians report that over
30 Per cent Of all children In
America are born normal. whereas
less than 90 per cent reach ma
turity in normal physical health,
Hoover said.
Much constructive work has been
done In endeavoring to develop the
proper care OF normal children ae
distinguished from the care OF those
who have fallen by the waysiae
and require actual medical treat
.ment, but the field in many Sec
tons Of our country IL a. yet Il
most untouched"
Organization Is Voluntary.
Two important child welfare orr.
anizations and personnel OF the
American relief organization have
been consolidated in what Secretary
Hoover termed strong voluntary
organization to meet . national
necessity.
TO save the American child and
therefore to build q future citizen.
ship, sound mentally, physically and
morally. and to reduce to the mini
mum a disgraceful infant mortality
rate, are among the detectives Ok
the association" George Barr Baker.
of New York, said.
Scientific study of the child
through the toddIing age to maturity,
with proper safeguards thrown about
the mother in the precarious days OE
expectant motherhood, will b con.
Quoted by the association in q series
of intensive experiments.
A congested city in the Middle
West. Baker explained, another in
New England and q third In the
South. will be selected for the stu
dies, to extend over period Of three
years.
Baker said the association would
send doctors, nurses and research.
lists to the three cities designated for
the experiment.
Scientific Training.
The tiny infant, from birth. viii
get the advantage Of attention ana
training according to programs
mapped out by internationally
known child specialists.
The department Of agriculture
maintains q division to educate
farmers in scientific livestock rails
ing" Baker pointed out. '-Our
association IL about to establish
clinics for scientific child culture
to give our children the same ad.
vantages we give our animals"
The association hopes to create q
sentiment which will carry the
work to every State in the country,
and that eventually the same en-
deayors will be taken over by gov
ernmental agencies.
Among those influential In the
movement are DIR. i. Emmett Holt,
New York child specialist: DR.. Liv-
ingston Farrand. president Of Cor.
nell University and DIR. Thomas d.
Wood. OF Columbia University.