Show STARVATION ARV A TION THREATENS PUPILS Food Shortage and His High Prices Declared Affecting Affecting Affecting Affect Affect- ing School Children I By Associated Press I KANSAS OS CITY IT Mo aio Io May lay 18 Stow 18 Slow allon starvation I is threatening American 4 n school children In poor neighborhoods affected b by tHe tHc food rood shortage and high priers prices Michael lIcha 1 Davis na I Jr director derector of oC the nus Boston Dispensary ar Boston Hoston Manx Maas In Irv an address on Malnutrition lalm of ot School Children today told the thea National Na- Na Conference of oC Social Work ork at al alKansas Kansas CIl City lie He appealed to social workers to meet neet and overcome o the new evil II Under nutrition means that children children chil chil- dren suffering from rom it do not get enough h t to eat cat was the term us used d by O ls Da In contradistinction to th the term cram malnutrition used by health I workers worker to describe a a. bad physical condition resulting from Crom Inability properly properly properly prop prop- erly to digest food or the use of oC Im- Im prone or poorly prepared prepare foods The effects of or ac- ac to Mr Davis are arc not noi usual usually Immediately apparent and nd are Inc therefore therefore there there- fore In Insidiously harmful the dama damage o being already done when the thc results become noticeable He Ire r reported that numerous cases of oC have ha been observed In children of oC poor families families fam tam in Boston and antl elsewhere and predicted predicted pre pre- dieted that thai they will become Increasingly increasingly apparent this summer BUmmer Young babies are arc not so frequently affected he because e only under tinder r the Iho most moat extreme conditions will the mill supply become United limited but chil Oren dren cn wh who have passed the milk age ae are arc In real reat danger dr Tile The oar ar hns added man many r reasons to the r rl cd ced d for attacking the problems of oC slow according to Mr Ir Davis DwIR who bald baid the cutting off ocr o of or American liv s at top makes it doubly necessary ne sar l to Increase efforts to conserve conserve conserve con con- serve them at the bottom He issued t a t call to tho the social workers at the conference to Join with the national child conservation vallon pro program ram of oC the childrens children's bureau and with a national committee of or pediatricians to combat in every part of the United States e especially In children from 2 t to n 14 years |