Evening star., 1941-05-01
Leaders Stress
0bjectives in
Child Health
Address by MeNutt
One of High Lights
On Days Observance

ioined today in celebrating Child
Health Day.
Throughout the city and the Ma
tion, public and private health
and welfare agencies stressed the
objectives of more adequate follow
up treatments for medical and den-
tai defects in children, better en-
vironmental conditions, sound char
acter building and mental health,
good nutrition and increased clinical
and hospital facilities for children.
The Capitals observance will be
high lighted by dinner at $50 pm.
in the ballroom of the Mayf1oWer
Hotel Federal Security Admins
traitor McNutt and Miss Katharine
r. Lenroot, chief of the Children's
Bureau of the Labor Department,
will be the principal speakers.
Projects Welcome Visitors.
Work Projects Administration ac-
tivities in behalf of underprivileged
children were being offered for pub
lie inspection in Washington and
throughout the country in observ-
ance of Child Health Day.
Among the projects here which
will be open to visitors are the
school lunch kitchen at l640 Wis
consin avenue NV, which prepares
1000 lunches daily for children in 88
schools; the housekeeping aid pro-
iect at 81 I street NV; household
training. 814 Independence avenue
S.W.; Children's Art Gallery, 8l6 In
dependence avenue S.W.; surplus
commodities distribution center, ats
c street NV; recreation training
center. 170l Eleventh street NV,
and the sewing project, John Mar
shall place and C street NV.
Three Nation wide radio programs
have been arranged in connection
with the observance. At 3 pm. over
Columbia Broadcasting System
network the American Legion Auxil-
larry was to present program fea-
turing talks by Miss Lenroot and
Mrs. Melville MuCklestone, Chicago,
past national president of the aux
iliary.
Two Programs Tonight.
For a half hour, beginning at 8
pm, part of the dinner program
at the Mayfiower will be broadcast
over the blue network of the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co. and at $50
p.rn. DR.. James N. Baker, State
health officer of Alabama, and DR..
Martha M, Eliot. associate chief of
the Childrens Bureau, will speak
over a network of the Mutual Broad
casting System.
Co-incident with the May Day OBJ
serVance the Community Chest an
nounced today that an increased
allotment of Chest funds will make
possible the Inauguration of case
work services to undertake followup
guidance and care after children
return to their homes from institu-
tions devoted to the care of conva-
leScents
The new work will be shared
by the Children's Country Home,
Eighteenth street and Bunker Hill
road NE, and the Christ Child
Farm for ConvaleScent Children, on
Norbeck pike near Rockville, Md.
Chest officials said the large num-
Der of "repeaters ers"-children who
had to retur nto the institutions for
further care-led the Budget Com
rnittee to conclude that supervisory
care of children released from the
homes would result in greater pro-
lection OF child health.
Check Up on Health.
ranged a number of programs in
recognition of Child Health Day
A group of 25 children visited the
Child Welfare Society headquarters,
at Thirteenth and w streets NV,
for a checkup this morning, and
at Juanita Kaufman Nye Council
House, 600 Sixth street NV, vol
unteer physician was examining an
other group of children. The ex-
animation was to be followed by
party for mothers and children.
Three volunteer physicians also
were to be on hand at Southwest
Community House, sol Second
street S.W., where a three-hour
festival beginning at 4 pm. was to
feature a program of dances and
the crowning of May queen. A
health pageant and talks on What
It Means to Enjoy Good Health"
featured a program at St. Joseph's
Home and School, Eastern avenue
and Bunker Hill road NE.
More than 200 members of the
Southwest Police Boys Club were
receiving dental checkups at the
Georgetown University dental clinic.
The Capital Transit Co. furnished
buses to transport the boys from the
clubhouse, 472 I street SW., to the
clinic.
400 Guests Expected.
Commissioner John Russell Young
will preside at the dinner at the
Mayflower Hotel and will read the
Presidents Child Health Day proc
lamation. More than 400 guests, in
eluding national and local health
and welfare leaders, will attend. The
subject of Mr.. McNutt's speech will
be Child Health-A Call to Action" P"
and Miss Lenroot will speak on Ma
tional Goals for Child Health"
Other speakers at the dinner will
be DR.. Eliot. who will discuss Plan
ming This Year for Child Health;
Dr.. George C. Rutland, District
health officer and chairman of the
National Committee on Child Health
Day, who will summarize the signif1-
canoe of Child Health Day both to
the District and the Nation, and Dr.
Ella Oppenheimer, director of the
Bureau of Maternal and Child We'll
fare of the District Health Depart
ment, whose subject will be Child
Health in the District"
Fifteen local and national agencies
interested in child health will have
exhibits in the promenade of the
Mayfiower under the direction of
Melvin P. ISaminger, director of the
Bureau of Public Health Instruction
in the District Health Department.
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