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Show s UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, APRIL 28. 1939 Page 2 SUtaj) Established WOMEN ARE ACTIVE IN Sailor A 11) IIEMBEH OF THU loth from an educational and an 04 matter Uarch 23, 1930, at the post office Entered aa second-claat Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of Uarch 3, 1879. ss $1.50 Subscription Advertising rates bj per annum Published weekly at 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. Publisher XL I. THOMPSON-- L Office Manager XI. THOMPSON- - standi for what the Constitution stands for domestic tranquility' the establishment of justice," and the promotion of the general welfare." UTAH LABOR NEWS. THE HEALTH OF THE CHILD IS THE POWER OF THE NATION ' (Continued child life in the United States. This year, therefore, the Children's Year poster and the Childrens Year slogan, The Health of the Child Is the Power of the Nation, have been adopted for the 1939 May Day Child Health Day celebration. This year marks the eleventh anniversary of the congressional resolution authorizing the President to issue an annual May Day proclamation. But the history of May Day Child Health Day goes back more than 11 years. Once a festival characterized by Maypole dances, May Day has a long and pleasant tradition among English-speakin- g peoples. Many people helped to bring about the celebration of May Day as a day for assessing child-healt- h needs. In 1916 the first Nation-wid- e Baby Week was promoted by the Childrens Bureau and the General Federation of Womens Clubs with the endorsement of the President, governors, and mayors. Over 2000 local campaigns were reported to the Children's Bureau by the States. Julia C. Lathrop, Chief of the Childrens Bureau, in her annual report of that year suggested that May Day might well be as a day which should chosen be not wily a festival but also year by year a celebration of some increase in the common store of practical wisdom with which the rom page 1) young life of the Nation is guarded by each community. This year, 1918, was celebrated as Childrens Year. After the World war the American Child Health Association was organized and was responsible for making the annual celebration of The conMay Day Nation-widgressional resolution of 1928 and the Presidents annual proclamations raised Child Health Day to a rank of national dignity. When the American Child Health Association went out of existence the State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America asked the Childrens Bureau to sponsor May Day. The State health departments are largely responsible for the May Day celebrations in the States. The State health officers appoint the State May Day chairmen, usually the directors of the bureaus of maternal and hygiene. ... SAYS 1939 SHOULD BE BANNER CHILDRENS YEAR By FRANCES PERKINS Secretary of Labor May" Day Child Health Day, 1939, marks an important date in a year of great significance to American children. On May Day communities will celebrate child-healt- h gains and re- needs. Throughout 1939 the White House Conference on Children in a Democracy, called by President Roosevelt, will be canvassing the conditions under which children and youth live in view child-healt- Mrs. Thomas F. McAllister, 'director of the Womens Division, has announced places and dates of these regional conferences as fol 5 and 6 lows: St. Louis, May Columbus, Ohio, May 11 and 12 Winston-SaleNorth Carolina 23 and 24; New York City May June 15 and 16. Last of such meetings schedulec by the Womens Division before the next Democratic national con vention, these sessions will look to ward 1940. Campaigns are won between elections, said Mrs. McAllister. To assure the continuation of en lightened government, there mus be public opinion based on fact, no abstractions; on truth, not propaganda; on public interest, not on special privilege. We must double our efforts now to get facts to the policies. The women of the Democratic party never had such an opportu- as nity or such a responsibility Womens Division of the Democratic National Committee. In refuting a statement of Dr. George Gallup, head of the American Institute of Public Opinion: You aro always right to the extent that you ignore women. Elections always come out as men I vote, Mrs. Roosevelt says, have never thought that there would be any great difference between the way men voted and the way women voted. I have always thought, however, that there would be greater interest shown by women in certain public questions and that their interest would bring these questions to the fore and draw the attention of the public to them. I do not think that the womens vote is to be ignored because as they become more conscious of their public responsibilities, I think they may take them more seriously and vote in larger numbers eventually than do their gentlemen according to our present now, she said. A changed America bears evidence of the worth of the New Deal program new schools, new roads, new public buildings, new homes, a new na- statistics. tional system of farming, a new safety in banking and business arWELCOME-LAD- IES rangements, a new feeling of security, a new faith in democracy. AUXILIARIES The Roosevelt administration has shown us that the machinery of government can provide not only such things as better schools and better roads, but a higher standard of living and more equal opportunities for all the people. CROSS CORSET SHOP 61 MRS. ROOSEVELT ana Forums on government round tables on party organiza- DEFINES A LIBERAL people. e. STORY OF CHILD HEALTH DAY organizational viewpoint, will be discussed in a series of Two-Da- y Institutes of Government, to be held in four regional centers during May and June, under the auspices of the Womens Division of the Democratic National Committee. request. Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Ve POLITICS How women can be most effective in strengthening their party, This paper receive Union News Service, a GI.O. affiliate. d of the counties in the United States, and 2500 women enrolled as Reporters to furnish facts to the communities on the workings of government, gaid Mrs. McAl lister. These women are really trained not only as party workers but as citizens. And I believe that as fast as women prove themselves efficient in party organization and ask for equal responsibility, they will gain the same recognition on party committees and in state and national conventions as men. Mrs. McAllister believes that Democratic women will prove effective salesmen for the continuation of the New Deal program and one-thir- h tion will be held at each institute, Speakers of national note will be featured. Called into the conference will be national committee-womestate vice chairmen, district and county party leaders, anc precinct workers. All meetings will be open to any women interested in government. Throughout the New Deal years the Womens Division has been assisting women in the study of government under its Reporter Plan, and has been hammering to get equal recognition for women in n, n, 7 well-bein- By J. S. STUDEBAKER U. S. Commissioner of Education May Day, for many years, has been made an occasion for calling attention to the importance of the health of school children. Preparations for and participation in May Day demonstrations should be conducted as far as possible by the Broadcasts pupils themselves. from radio stations, addresses given in schools, and dramatic presentations, preferably written and staged by the students, may be ar ranged. The improvement or maintenance of health is, or should be, a day-i- n day-oendeavor and we are ap proaching a time when it will be so considered by all schools. Health has always been called the First Objective of education. However, to date, we have often done those things we should not have done and we have left undone those things we should have done; our health conditions are sometimes faulty and our health activities inadequate. Where this is the case, May Day serves as a time for good resolutions and for a fresh start. ut CUBAN Cigar Co. Its From Cross Its Lovelier! Mrs. Roosevelt defines a liberal as a person who is willing to listen to many sides of the question, to keep an open mind so that Best Wishes Call if new facts are presented he or she can change his previous conGudgell Sheet Metal clusions on any subject. The First Lady says, I should Works expect a liberal to contemplate any new theory advanced on any subSheet Metal Contracting ject with interest and curiosity, Air Conditioning-Ventilatin- g and to accept experimentation in a calm and judicial spirit. Stainless Steel Work and This statement is made in answer to a Trim Run-ioMrs. party councils. Fern question posed by 116 W. 2nd So. Was. 5174 Trained Women Huntington, West Virginia, as FRANK GUDGELL, Mgr. Already the Womens Division to Mrs. Roosevelts definition of a Friend of Labor has over 2000 discussion groups liberal. The answer appears in the under the Reporter Plan in over April issue of The Democratic Digest, official publication of the upon democratic principles finds both its aim and its security in the g of its happiness and children. people, especially its ROBERTS, ASHWORTH CO. Nineteen thirty-nin- e should, there RADIOS REFRIGERATORS WASHERS fore, be a banner year for the chil RANGES STOKERS HEATING dren of our country. 225 South State Welcome, Labor Wasatch 8827 PUPILS URGED TO LEAD IN SCHOOL MAY DAY PROJECTS the United States, the extent to which their personal needs are met, their preparation for citizenship in A Order Now a democracy, and ways in which Baby Chix, Seeds, Feeds they may be assured greater seAnderson Hatchery curity and opportunity. 10 years the Nation takes Every Blvd. 2262 Wash. Ogden census of the population. At ina Mail Orders Promptly Filled tervals of approximately 10 years, since 1909, national conferences have been held under presidential auspices to consider childrens needs. The first, in 1909, led to Best Wishes the mothers pension movement and to the creation of the Childrens Bureau. The second, in 1919, drew up minimum standards of child welfare. The third in 1930, produced the Childrens Charter. Pres120 So. State Wras. 1863 ident Roosevelt has called this Salt Lake City, Utah fourth conference because of his SAYS MAY DAY conviction that a society founded OBSERVANCE HELPS BUILD FOR FUTURE SHOP AT WELCOME, LABOR By THOMAS PARRAN, M. D. KETCHUM BUILDERS SUPPLY Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health Service EVERYTHING FOR THE BUILDER Each us is deeply concerned of Modernize the Interior, the Exterior, the Attic, the Bathroom. for the health and happiness of our Do It Now and Save! children. 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