Milford chronicle., 1932-05-06
CHILD WELFARE
PLANS ADOPTED
FOR DELAWARE
LCoatiHned from First Pdge1


their experience and knowledge in
the White House Conference reports.
The information is at hand, in def
mite and concise form. The next
step is to interpret it to those who
can use it.
Upon the recommendation of a
committee, composed of representa-
tives from Delaware to the latest
White House Conference, I have Sc
lected Mrs. Julia Hays Tallman as
general conference chairman and
Miss Eta J. Wilson, general secre-
tary of this State House Conference
on Child Health and Protection.
Prepare for Fall Conference
I'VE are organizing ourselves for
thorough inventory of the things
that are being done for the care and
protection of Delaware children. We
hope as one result of the reports
which you are requested to file with
your section chairman, and which
will be made public at the conference
in the fall, that there may be a
more general recognition of the many
phases of child development; a finer
understanding of the tremendous
need for more closely co-ordinated
programs in our work. Increased
achievement through coordination,
rather than expansion, is the great
need of the moment.
"No one in this audience is willing
to have Delaware fail to play well its
part in this great national effort to
increase knowledge concerning
things relating to child health and
protection. Delawareans should
achieve, we all believe, not less but
more, socially, than many of the 9TH
er states. AS a result of the area
and the population, it is rich in pos
sibilities for intensive and closely
co-ordinated action. It has public
spirited people, eager to measure up
to the States fine traditions.
Doctors Tell Of Needs
DR.. c. A. Sargent, in his address, !
declared that local conditions vary |
SO much that no set program can be
set up. He suggested that the Par
ent-TeacheT Association or some |
other local groups organize commit i
tees and help establish clinics for |
the regular periodic examination of |
schools. Twenty thousand Della |
ware school children have already |
been examined, DR.. Sargent said.
Dental Attention Imperative
DR.. @. r. F. Jeffries, State Oral
Hygienist, referred to the crops of
dental hygienists authorized by the
last session of Legislature as made
quate since they can reach only the
first three grades. Already after,
10000 examinations they have found
$4,000 cavities.
AS he introduced Dr.. U. W. Hook
er, president of the State Medical So
ciety, DIR. Sargent mentioned one
school where 100 pupils had been
examined Six perfect children were
found; 1910 defects were discovered.
Dean Winifred J. Robinson, of the
Women's College, University of Del
aware, read the Children's Chapter.
May Day Pageant
A May Day pageant was given,
with the following taking part Miss
Helen Williams, as Delaware;
Blanche Lee as New Castle County;
Roberta Paccetti, as Kent County;
Vyonne Townsend, as Sussex Coun-
ty; Edith Vandegrift and Beulah
Hughes, trumpeters; and a chorus
from the State Adult Education CEN
ters. John Shilling acted as narra--
tor. Children of the Elizabeth W.
Murphy School, Dover, took part as !
did children from Lewes, Rose Hill, !
Port Penn, Oak Grove and Minqua-
dale, Yorklyn, Hartly, Milton, RoX- ,
ana, Rawlins and Millsboro and to ID,
the Parent-Teacher Associations
from other school districts.
The principal characters in the
episode were Mae Hill McCabe, Mil
ton Andrews, Harry V. Holloway, Dr..
Cleland A. Sargent, Amos r. Shields, : :
Ezra B Cooks, Mary Devices, ]. Ed
ward Gosless. The committee in &
charge of the pageants was Mr.. Gill
Gertrude Hendricks, Bar :
bara Miller, Amy Gardner, Tillie W. !,
Marguerite H. Burnett. =
Boys Club Represented n
The Boys Club of Wilmington was l,
we'll represented at the conference. .
Bruce Lindsay carrying sign ideh- z
tifying the group with the local Boys n
Club, led them on the stage. Knowl- /
edge, as gathered out of the books Il
at its well stocked library, was por- y
trayed by James Dorsey. Sign paint T
ing and poster lettering was intro
1uced by Joseph Blank and William A
Long who carried samples of the p
work Airplane modelling took place r
On the stage, depicted by John Lip q
nski, Gordon Galloway. Henry Szy- +.
and John Kozlosh, all of
whom carried various models in the +.
flying game. Exponents of wood h
work were George Sapna, Howard
Willard Connolly, and =,
Stanley Jezyk Handicraft made by \,
he juniors were presented by John
Tontana, James Alexander and h
Henry Fisher basketball and base n
oall was represented by Sebastian n
Crescent and John Madison respec-
lively. John Madison also made the Z
speech. Stephen Kopan- M
Xxi and Charles Williams represent :,
ID electricity and Bernard Szyman-
Xxi closed the Boys Club part :,
UNION
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