Show CHILD HEALTH AND WELFARE at the summons of president hoover a conference on child health and welfare with 1200 delegates is meeting at washington As mr hoover remarked if we could have one generation of properly bom eda bated and healthy children a thousand other problems would vanish the nation has to face the fact that a large part of its children are neither properly born educated nor provided with healtha the american people spend money very freely on education of their children but the provisions of that education is only partial in many places where liberal provision is for giving children training their physical welfare is neglected and in the majority of american schools they gain but little idea of how to use their hands in practical ways according to the figures presented to this meeting there are children in this country having some form of defect of deficiency physical or otherwise there are improperly nourished who will never be efficient workers while this condition lasts A large part of these defects could be removed if taken in time such defects are a heavy handicap many school pupils for instance fall behind their classes because their deafness makes it difficult for them to hear the teacher and the other pupils some fall behind be cause poor sight makes them unable to see the blackboards many children who are called lazy and worthless are merely feeble by physical defects that are curable such a child gets out of touch with his mates and often becomes a moral problem it seems strange that this great nation should be so heedless as to allow children to grow up with removable defects |