Evening star., 1935-04-30
MAY DAY T0OPEN
HEALTH DR|VEFOR
CHILDREN OF CITY
Three Separate Programs
to Be Launched With
Help of Schools.
ONLY TWO POLITICAL
GATHERINGS SLATED
Communist Committee Sponsor Of
Meeting Tomorrow in Frank
lin Park.

May day. historic date Of political
and labor disturbances, tomorrow in
the Capital will mark the beginning Of
yearly effort to bring to the city's
children better health.
The day will witness three distinct
health drives swing into full operation,
vitality affecting the health Of thou
sands Of children of pre-schol and
school age.
According to her custom, Mrs.
Roosevelt will receive basket Of flow
ers from a delegation of school chill
dren, who will call at the White House
ut II am. tomorrow.
In 13 schools parent-teacher asso-
Citations will hold medical examinations
in connection with their annual Sum-
mer roundup of children who will
enter school next September and Feb
ruary.
Physicians to Aid.
Experienced physicians will give the
youngsters thorough going over. The
second phase of the roundup is the
treatment and cure Of remedial defects
discovered In the examination. Later
another examination will be conducted
to check up on results. The District
Congress of Parents and Teachers has
been specially cited for the excellence
OF its Summer roundup in 1884.
Schools in which parents are urged
to bring their children for examina-
tion tomorrow are the Bancroft, Bur-
roughs, Maury. Blow Webb. Wheatley,
Langdon. Woodbridge. Brookland.
Adams. Barnard, Park View, Truesdell
and Whittier
Others of the city's 81 associations
will hold examinations May 2, 8, 6,
Z, Is and "a.
To Test for tuberculosis.
The instructional side of the joint
drive by the District Health Depart
nnent and the District tuberculosis
Association to examine each high
school senior for tuberculosis infection
will be launched tomorrow with
lectures in three high schools. Other
physicians will speak and exhibit
health pictures in many of the inter-
mediate and elementary schools.
The high school lectures scheduled
are at Mckinley, e:05 am. by Dr.
Stuart o. Foster; Western, 9:4O am,
DR.. Charles r. L. HALEY, and Dunbar,
am, DR.. E. o. Wiggens. DR.. Wiggens
also will speak to parents tomorrow
evening at o'clock at Dunbar.
Nav dau a1cn ie thu fo mint
for the campaign of the American
Child Health Association, in cooper
alton with the American Pediatric So
ciety and the District Health Depart
ment, for immunization to diphtheria
Of pre-school children.
Each year the American Child
Health Association wars against some
phase of child ill-health. This year
it was decided to concentrate on
diphtheria In children ranging in age
from months to 6 years.
Ceremonies and Dances.
Children of many of the city's
schools will celebrate May day with
colorful ceremonies and dances. One
Of the largest of these will be at the
Wheatley School, where some 700
pupils will take part in a festival and
health pageant. The program will get
under way at l pm.
But two political demonstrations
are scheduled for tomorrow, according
to applications to police for permits.
What promises to be the most ex-
tensive gathering will be in Franklin
Park at $3.50 pm. under auspices of
the May Day Communist Committee.
The Socialist Labor party will hold
meeting at the same place between 8
and 10 pm. Police say they are not
expecting disturbances in connection
with either gathering.
The Communist party has received
. permit for a meeting tonight at
Fifth and N streets between 1880 and
$3.50 o'clock, which will be in the ma
ture of pep" session for tomorrow
afternoons sssemblage. Another per-
nit has been issued for an open-air
meeting on Friday evening at Twen-
tieth and L streets.