Evening star., 1941-02-23
Parents Urged to Take Part
In Pre>School Roundup
Record ofAnnual Health Checkup
Has Shown Increasing Effect
On Welfare of Young Children
BY MRS. C. d. LOWE,

Even though wintry winds have
been blowing this last week, re-
minding us that winter is still with
us, members of the Health Depart
ment of the District of Columbia
Congress of Parents and Teachers
have been busy for some time, plan
ming their program for the annual
summer roundup III May.
For more than a quarter century
now, this annual roundup OF pre-
school children has been an activity
originated in the National Congress
of Parents and Teachers, and car
ried out by the State congresses,
made up of many thousands of local
school units.
If we we're to make compre-
hensive graph of this health activity,
over the period of these years, l
am quite sure we should be very
much surprised at the story it
would tell. For we would see
written thereon the record of the
first roundup, with its few thous-
ands of children all over the coun-
try who we're given physical eX-
aminiations, with the results of
these examinations showing re-
medal physical defects, and then the
final report of this first roundup
with its record of defects corrected.
Ascending Record.
Following down through the
years, we should see a gradually
ascending record, with the thousands
of children increasing TO tens Of
thousands and the remedial de-
fects discovered correspondingly in
creased. But we should see also
a gratifying increase in the number
of defects corrected, with the num-
Der of children certified 100 per
cent physically perfect enrolling
in school for the first time cor
respondingly increased.
There would also be written on
that record a graph showing the
increase in health knowledge OBJ
tanned by parents with its practical
application to the every day lives
of their children. So that it is with
a feeling of satisfaction that we re-
view the years during which the
Parent-Teacher Association has
sponsored this yearly roundup-or
physical checkup-of young chill
dren For we feel that it is one of
the most worthwhile of the many
worthwhile activities sponsored by
US
Therefore, We approach another
May with the confidence that our
roundup, under the capable guild
ance of our health department, will
prove TO be still more successful, and
more productive of satisfactory re-
suits than any that we have held
in the past And We invite the
parents of all pre-school children
in the District to remember this
health program and to plan to take
advantage of the opportunity offered
by it.
Central High.
The annual game party will be
held March at 8 pm. Mrs. H. J
Newland is general chairman.
Langley Junior High.
The following is the Nominating
Committee: Mrs. William Watt
Miss Harriet Bundick, Mrs. Mar.
iorie Clark, Harry Baker, princi.
pal, and Mrs. Charles H. Kendall
chairman. They will report at the
March meeting.
The adult study class in nutri'
ton is being held each Wednes'
day at II am.
Raymond.
The study group will meet Wed.
nesday from 1:30 to 3 pm. anc
will continue to meet each Wednes.
day for 10 weeks. The subject vii
be home decoration. This new clas!
will be held jointly with the wal
relief class.
A group of mothers repaired
clothing last Wednesday at thu
student aid rooms in the Gale!
/ School and presented IS pairs o.
new hose collected at the February
/ stocking shower.
School for Crippled Children.
The association will meet at
o'clock Friday. After a brief bust
ness meeting the program will b'
turned over to the Boy Scouts Of
the school-Troop rs and Cub Pscl
/ 76.
Ketcham-Van Buren,.
The study group will meet Tues
day from 10 to 1880 am in tn,
Ketcham School. Prof. Moore vii
discuss Safety in Buying"
Anacostia Junior Senior High.
The Executive Committee vii
meet March at pm. at the hom'
of Mrs. Enoch Karrer, 4190 Wheelel
road Sc.
a rehearsal for the play, "Tht
! Wrong Baby" will be held at thu