Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-18
Higghligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands
THE EVENING POST, New Zea-
land.-Medical examination of
school children which ends with

TIME EVENING POST, New zea-
land.-Medical examination of
school children which ends with
II the child obviously does not go
far enough in many instances.
Some further inquiry is needed to dis
cover the source of those defects which
the personal examination reveals. VAL
liable work in this direction has been
carried out under DR.. Henderson, school
medical officer A survey of the health
conditions of country school children
has been made in relation to their
home life and environment. The de-
fects disclosed are in part economic, and
not remediable by ordinary educational
means. The overwOrking Of mothers,
leading to domestic ineficiency, for ex-
ample, Is a trouble for which neither
the education nor the health depart
ment can prescribe, yet it is a first step
toward reform that the facts and their
influence upon the children should be
known. There are, however, certain
faults which can be corrected without
difficulty. AS an illustration, it seems
strange that 10 per cent of share milk
ers' children never take milk as bever-
age. There can be no poverty excuse
for this, and it Is surely only necessary
to stress to the parents the value of
fresh milk in the diet to have the fault
removed. Similarly q deficiency of
green vegetables in the diet is easily
remedied in the country. It seems that
a little propaganda Is really all that is
necessary, in many instances, to pro-
mote juvenile health both in town and
country.
Crimes Increase
At Alarming Rate in London.
Irish Independent, Dublin.-The Lon
-
war against an efficient police force of
over 10000 men manages to hold his
own. Last year, it is true, there were
only 10 murders in London. But crimes
against property are increasing at an
alarming rate. There were in 1929, ac-
cording to the report of the municipal
police, no fewer than 4,082 cases of
housebreaking or shopbreaking. The
police suggest that this form of crime
Is facilitated by careless householders
and proprietors who do not attend to
their doors and windows, and also by
the tendency OF judges and magistrates
to give lenient sentences and the anx-
iety of well-meaning reformers to turn
the prisons into homes where the crini-
nal enjoys amenities denied many
honest members of the community out
side.
The report also emphasizes the ease
with which motor cars may be procured
Ior criminal purposes. In London, as
In Chicago and New York, the motor
car has provided new problem for the
policeman. In Ireland we are more for
tunate. Some years ago, before the
country had begun to recover from the
moral chaos Of the period of disorder,
1t looked as If crimes in which the out
law depended upon his twin allies, the
motor car and the revolver, were to be-
come everyday occurrences. Fortu-
nately, the vigilance of the garda and
the stern sentences meted out to those
convicted have combined to make these
activities rare.
Jockey Club
Contributes to Art.
La Nacion, Buenos Aires-The Jockey
Club, in its long career, has contributed
generously to many movements in fur
therance of Argentine art Up to now,
however, it has displayed this activity
In Semi-occasional form and without
a definite program such as it is under
taking in its new projects. That all the
esthetic life of the capital and the ma
ton generally will benefit greatly from
the impetus now being displayed by the
Jockey Club in matters of art, there is
no disputing. Nor is it strange that
members OF this society should be IN
terested in what is erudite, refined and
classical. All the associates of this club
are people of culture and means, and
that they should love the prestige and
beauty of blooded horses is but token
OF the allied affection they must feel for
all that is noble, gracious and inspiring.
Members of the Jockey Club are estab-
fishing fund out of which rewards viii
be paid annually to natives of Argentina
who distinguish themselves most emil
nently in the realms of literature, music,
painting end sculpture. The proceeds Of
various avents of the track viii be de-
voted tostne same exemplary purposes.