The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-21
Protection of Children
in Russia Is Product
of the 1917 Revolution
BY J. LOUIS ENcDAHL.

TODAY without having read the attack in the Chicago
Tribune the Of children in Soviet Russia the
editor of the Russian Review issued from Washington D. Co.
publishes article chidrens health protection in the
Soviet Union, which this initial declaration Is made:
systematic protection youth
In the Soviet Union is product Of the revolution.
Before revolution question
logical treatment Of the abnormal child entirely Ignored and left to
private charity.
"Aer revolution of 1917 the protection ohdrsns health
became o. the
The Chicago Tribune will not publish that.
That is the change, greeted with Joy especially by the
younger generation in the Soviet Union that the Tribune
trying to hide from the workers of this country by gross
exaggeation of the fact that there still few homeless
children orphans who may be found leading hayward lives
in the great Russian Cities that yet been lifted
pletey out of czarist degradation resulting from capitalist
misrue.
November 1917 the establishment of the Department
chdrens Health Protection for both normal and abnormal
children
BY 1918, when the world was coming to an end
enabling the mperast nations to turn their attention
the task of creating standardized chdrens health
tons ito serve models for similar establishments
provinces"
The farce Of physical examinations and medical advice
IS gone thru with in the schools of American Cities
But this only results in telling what as their child
rem gives parents help to take of their children
Communism" Soviet Russia in practice shows this charge
to be true 1t gives the children the care they will
never receive in any capitalist country
Russian children only told what aiIs Them
defects inherited from czars but every effort made
ueeCLS DlSpehSdrleS nave established where
specialists may be consulted But these only the centers
TOR the work OF all physicians looking after the health of
the children Thru these dispensaes made
with the broadest masses of the population "by means of
dispensary service, the assignment children to nstit
TONS dletetc feeding, day Senatorial medical aid home
visiting and so on"
There are forest schools for fraiI children specially
equipped colonies for serious chdrens summer play
grounds and to interest propaganda weeks for the
protection of the health of school children.
here IS mistaken notion that life on the farm IS
neathu In the United States it has shown that the
standard OF health conditions in rural communities is below
nat IN the cities This also true czarsm Soviet
Russia devotng special attention protection of the
health OF the rural workers. . 80
NO one could ever imagine American capitalism issuing
decree that employment of youth 16 years of ace
That is Soviet decree. V
one result has been the organization 24s2o workers.
PnyscaI culture clubs turnout the Russian Socialist Fed
Grated soviet Republic (Soviet Russia proper).
new race of human beings is developing under the
red flag OF the revolution in Russia The upward struggle is
not only for the strong Even the weakest get every possible
aid and encouragement.
Under capitalism the old adage applies: "The race is 70
the strong let the devil take the hndost" Such noicv
degrades all. ro'
On the question of health alone the mighty heel of Soviet
rule presses ever harder upon thesneck of capitalism