Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-29 | Page 8 | Counting Babies

Counting fhe Babies J t I 1 I The proportion of boy to girl babies is larger in England and and- Val WaI Wales s than at any time since 1854 and Eng England a ld rejoices rejoices- for fr she lI will ne need d many a fine man child to replace her pitiful her pitiful losses in the war New babies are all carefully counted in Europe today Foreign g governments know that the most important of all national assets asset Without babies there c can cn n be no national wealth h however wever great the reat the nations nation's resources may be Uncle Sam knows this as well a John as John Bull But along with r r accepted wastes vas es of Americas America's S 'S extraordinary resources Un Uncle le Sam Sam's s 's people have been notoriously wasteful of baby lives According to census estimates the United States loses of ofa each a If 1000 babies Jabi s bo born n In England and Wales Vales the rate is 95 95 per pcr 1000 in in Fr France 7 7 j in Norway 65 j New Zealand 51 There are twelve countries in which the infant mort mortality lity rate is is lower than thanin thanin thanin in in our own orn beca because sc few Amer American can cities care for baby lives as well as Salt Lake Lak does dos Figures like this hurt Uncle Sam Sara's Saras s pride Poorer countries some of them lacking a free Iee schol school system fan can raise their babies better than Americans can It must be our own carelessness and neglect which causes our en embarrassingly high rate of infant mortality j Uncle Sam believes that we will vill all do better if we know better Therefore ore he lie has lIas ordered a national baby week beginning Maxell ch 4 f purpose of bringing home to pare parents ts and guardians the simple knowledge which is required for baby salvage r r Ju We V e have all acquired the habit lately of dealing in futures P Perhaps its it's our om preparedness plans or the constant repetition of P after the war or r the promise of our coming coming- commercial supremacy at at any rate we are arc making the p problems o of f posterity ou our own problems 9 1 First of them all aI is our duty not to waste our babies as we do donow donow now at itt t the rate of a year x The The childrens children's burc bureau u of the depar department n i of l labor bor is planning the baby aby week campaign and is now in communication on with 2029 communities which will make about 2029 different kinds of exhibits I These exhibits exhibits- are re n not t all for mothers and nurses If we are areg g going to save the most of our babies babies- babies MUST HELP Among a baby's chief needs ds is a good home That's where a good father is mighty handy bandy x