Show uncle saws sams children bureau 6 wara dclark 04 X hott hob the govern government ent has Z g taken up tip the task of improving in f pruning living ivion conditions for boys sand and gr girls r in alt aft parts t of the coun country on t in 11 one 1 I at least the it united statia stabs gme government I 1 Is P paternal a it A r A 1 I there her it have be been objections political economic and per or imps sentimental to ghang uncle sum sam P potters domers along many lines line of digisi legislation akon im tor tile public need but little oba objection oam was raised to giving our great grant and ad rood good uncle ill the potter ill through the childrens chil diens 8 bureau to look after tile the 1 in forest of the little ones one of 0 the count country julia U 11 loth lathrop 1 I ho 1 tor or r a long uma time was ill interested red 11 in bell benefi cent work mark in a great grant social I 1 center in the he city of chicago anui appointed by pr president I 1 tart taft as chief of the till dze diens scald halt A A which is fa an Int integral part of the dopart department ment of 0 labor the law relating to in the a b bureau A is I 1 simple pl and short 1 in its ph phraseology algy but it Is all 11 inclusive it makes it it 11 11 the 1111 duty 1 ot tho the children a bureau to a investigate an and d anat upon all 11 matters matter daig to la the welfare of children th the children a field 1 Is broad it includes c virtually everything which con can tend toward and ad promote pata a policy which bich he haq tor for its ob object act tile the se securing hig of good ship for far the tha united states it ts Is an old saving saling and ad the flippant would bould call al tt ft hot but Is as the twig Is bent the tree 1 Is inclined in the tat report on the worl work ot of the bureau made by ilk lathrop tho the q questions ft are to aspect led doity are illa there so many deaths among country hold babies A and country mo mothers thue and whit wh it should the federal 90 government it do about lt recently an studies A of if mater te nal at and ad child welfare have base been unit under taken in rural command communities U for far uc the that first time it Is fa slid bild una that they ore are more anre 1 inclusive 1 ave than ill lie A city swill studies ot of infant mortality had and it that t the me meth od ad of approach necesis necessarily sIlly has be bes been A different although of course the pit inary IT purpose la Is identical T alie it is desire has been to secure are A statement ement of the social and oil oc economic marall factors factor which affect infant welfare I 1 in addi addition tim the work 1 la BO planned as to secure information cli concerning neIng miter nal A welfare if 1 ani I the welfare fare of chi ahll ill dren and under school age and to bring out certain aortal boom relating to all 11 the chi then dien in the family the cost cast of carrying on oa these studies 1 in country arcag he has be been much inch greater than I 1 in thickly populated towns the children dr a bureau takes mind cogal ranee A AA of the argument sometimes brought forward against the immor tunce tance of studies in fa rural communities that tha the death rate of children in the country la Is lower lawer than the death rate for far city r communities allon ial there Is agen t gen erid eral belief that toral rural carcutt conditions 8 ore are more favorable to the health of ahll h dren drea than elev conditions but bull ludru I 1 sultan lathrop asks if A we a can afford ft a rd to rest reit contented in this bellef belief even an if it appears to be confirmed by figures figure of the census tables without Jt intensive calv tudy study of rural andi conditions ons it t has bus been ba shows all conclusively by investigation that in certain parts of the cities of the country the death m rate t a among infants la is very much lower tu than tile death rate to moung among infants in at many ity of ti alie a country district toda today y mate A and d other public agencies a are ma seeking the m cooperation porm lical of 1 the child to bu ma read and ac are urging rural studies to d this the united amt stats bellev believes AS Is J highly deai desir able and it will be given give aa rab rapidly lilly as A the b bureaus W res resources me permit it way may well be said amid that such to co operation lie at wiy 11 lead lo in permanent local ma cen ter of if inal maternal tural and child A welfare and ellare to better 1 local I provision for A all I 1 the needs of growing children in any case h rural or adall studies aa lila hurt bureau has clr under may vi ay and desires to develop fur ill tarr cannot fail to throw some light on th toe a question r raised alsed in regard to the w elfare jf of rural children hortio nor can these thosa studies fall fail to aid lit in making aking char cl ar the pao imperative need of awag the level of matei ual and infant mat caie A summary be has just hem been prepared by the chmidt o bureau of bliss la I 1 thropa report as it affects the be welfare face of children and ina am mothers an or 1 in the country at districts this A summary maxy follows the two q scions which already have been given but which here ore arg repeated VI hy y are am there them so im many any deatris among country bob babies i so and country nieth mothers 2 tad ad kimt hat should the federal govern men ment do about 10 the figures show a maili edly high death late into among country women omm at f child beat beai ing age tor for m which aich a large number another of prevent preventable his deaths float maternal I causes appears beam I 1 to abe be bible his it Is estimated that more mor than 11 Y 6 ara 13 women die year bv year in the united states fro from conditions incident to maternity while able the extent of un A u necessary ill health Is at present on nn k known now tile the sickness or death of A 11 mother inevitably lessens um the chances I 1 fiallos of her baby tor for life and health and it UI Is plain dial that the que question tion of maternal cire c ire re in araral districts la is of genuine it public ald 0 interest A an argument for far better care of ru ral childhood is based imbed on the high pol per of 0 p physical defects among chil children drea in rural schools given in re ports ot of state boards of lical health ul miss bliss lathi op emil concludes ld those these clon compall parl sons lama are a strong indication that there is room for great p permanent hinnent impre improve t 1 in maternal and child welfare work mork in rural districts the dav ali when all rural 11 children bics shall be well weil born and well moll cared ared for or Is far ahead but surely that but day should dawn first for the th country in 1 connection with mith the bureaus to ru ral lai atu btu studies dies a child hygiene expert hot holds d n childrens health conference to parents bring children tor far examination Admit hm and ad ballice about daily daiby care A but not for medical diagnosis or treatment parents have shown he meet gibat eager eagerness no tor for this kind of help in the ammu counties a already visited bringing UK on ir ft children often long distances over bad to roads its and even sacrificing farm work for the journey state and other local officials are urging the bureau to cooperate W with ith them in similar studies and demonstrations ai in A many any states state and A number be of rural units to extend their work walk A are among the its items tor far which the bureau asks a larger staff and ad appropriation miss lathrop believes believe that such fod fed eral studies making plain the necessity and sain cang a method are A bound to lead toward antiquate local provision tor for maternal nia unit and child met we fare are the children a barbe bureau has prepared many publications concerning the inn ain eral cral questions question ot of child welfare they will be sent cut fro free of chat charge to p to and ad to others chor who ore are interested in the subject object there thera are am cries ot it these publications they concern with virtually evera phase of the great subject to which it I 1 is tile the bureau ama am A A duty to give its consideration it 1 Is possible tica that few per persons hill have an adequate k lidga of if the breadth of at t the be work mark which the childrens children bu ba me renu u 1 Is it his within it its scope of study suggestion and action not net only the care Is of if lattka and ad of children of A little larger growth but of if noth mothers before and ad aft after the b births it its of their of feeble feebleminded ma minded ded child children of if training school b biml efforts effort ot r labor problems anil and in fact of everything alioth will tend read to conserve cesear A tile the life mentality physique and happiness if at the little lolk folk ot of the united states chip comparatively dively rue recently fly the chal hit d dran 9 bar bureau started blurted out at on mh what t it calls it bob A ock mal campaigns lodana biby have been held recently in in many ot of the large cities of tile the c coun an try chosa weeks ke to can be held an successfully cess ese ilon fully to in comma ill ties of all 11 alls tile the form that they take however A will III vary greatly 1 in different places A As miss I 1 anthrop 6 bays Ys A rural ram r am aty will fi not at w alli to carry try out at the 1111 lab oto orate p program gram which will min seem dec enry in a big city to reach the PO people pla on 0 the other hand many any largo large cities may no not t be ready lit a cerium tune to early cany A on nn an ela elaborate bonate PrO program grion whim which will demand consider considerable libi A elpe e and ill the A I constant 11 tant labor of many people but bill may be anxious al nevertheless tribal to tiring bring the subject ot of battles babies to tile the attention of the public to nn an extent which win will achieve chi substantial result there have been baby weeks hold held in new york pittsburgh washington and many of the other large cities of the country they have been uniform ly inice f I the object of the baby w week campaigns la Is to give the parents of th the to community muty the opportunity to learn the foe facts with regard to the care car of their liable babies second to make k known ka A to the community the importance of at ito ita babies the special fact retain relating to the babies ot of the community and ud the need ot of permanent work mark for far th their air welfare A pamphlet published by bv the children pamphlet d con a bureau idled called I 1 rhy biby week cam poi lail cents contains too minute instructions on concerning the me methods ghods of starting the baby weeks and of conducting thom them in n communities ol at various sizes this p pamphlet h let of suggestion ag guiten can A be had bad upon application to the bari bureau in W hington T the e c childrens h 11 droms bureau bur a concerns coms itself icib W with the maternity side bide of the grout great work which it has haa in hand bond romere bu the mothers other well cared led for far healthy mothers tire necessary for the health and happiness of their babies find out what your community 1 la da doing to insure to every mother skilled advice and A adequate care or before her adlee b baba bv is 9 born bom anil and during her confine ment mend and give the ahe importance of pro letting the mother that e ferem tit t pons placa in n the edu educational call onal w work uk of at the carn cam laign stoutly recently magress conR ress passed a chi child labor law which places a henry pea rabeya alty ally upon the introduction into am inter state cor commerce mannes of if goods made or 1 pre lared led in factories where little tile children are mai employed lloyed the question of child labor has haa been a al crucial 11 1 one A in for am years year Cou congress was shad time and again to pass a R law which would pro pre tell eit the little ones by their that parent or by the very force of hard born circumstances to work before their strength could bear the hardship of toll tell th alie childrens baillon bu illon halt bureau has for one of its IN concerns coms the safeguarding of american ch dron from the evis of hard bonfi confining aing employment while they a anre of tender years when the real best basis ot of things I 1 reached hd the high death rate late among I 1 in tanta four 1 Is an appalling picture perhaps it t would not be too much to say und that to reduce the awful rate of intent infant mor ann clity in this country la Is the highest aim tn of uncle sam a childrens children human bureau 1 th the question of 1 infant t we mortality ll 11 lit in ur at ban and suburban rul regions li i at to length m I 1 b in aph pamphlets I 1 A to leaned issued by tile the halt bureau i it Is almo almost a platitude to say th that 1 the citizenship of the country depends upon van the welfare of its children the united state we nanta its its ita children to he healthy morally and P the government atto takes it ft for far granted lor ant doubtless that it its desired Is A tile the desire of all 11 per parents the of sit la is to he h help th the parom parents is and all others othera in the wo work ra ol 01 safeguarding the ones ot of these united states state A |