Show TIPPING THE SCALES more me than two million babies in town loop and country rich and d poor well oil and ad sickly ekly are tipping the scales 1 and ad standing UP to the yard vard stick ick unless they are to too little to t ninna ad in answer to the request of the ch childrens id tens bureau of the U 8 deps department rim so t of f labor and the wu wo ron miria C of r the council ol 01 N annal at defense that thai parens parena ardel their chi children i dron in the ahe nation wide tesi fee which ho it began on april fixle th HE ih the km fill step in the Child rna ralli yeu campaign to save babies this we weighing lhing and ami mea measuring test is a spring inventor of the wel welfare of the nations children Thedrie the draft ft took stock of th men who h will a go the battle front in franco france it f found und Is less than ban two to thirds da of the them physically cally fit for set ser vice many of these men were rendered r ed unfit by defects which au an th gitles ties declare could have been prevented if they had been discovered and cared for in childhood the children who survive to man hood and wo womanhood hood with defects bear the m bears to of diseases injuries and general genera j conditions wh eh ch have proved fatal fata to others the infant death rate to is nearly as great as chii of men and women 0 who have corn com p eted their 11 led three score note years beare and ten nearly a fourth of the deaths death that a occur cu c r at a all 11 ages are tace of babies under five 1 IB it necessary that these them little children run so great a risk a k of death news holme a answered n 8 w e red that question when he said t that h a t if children were well born and well cared for the infant death rate aou would ld be practically negligible the weighting weighing and measuring test i 1 g giang thousands of communities in a the united states opportunity to flo find it out whether their children are am well col born and well cared for hhand we weight ht and height are a tough rough u in dex alf x of the health of the growing child and the test teat will show hw ad mi mii dual i parents and comm communities u just how each n child compares compare with the agg average follow up work will be planned to fit t the h a needs shown by the test and sil will II 11 continue through out children year the bureau believes that individual others mothers and fathers father must most realize how vitally war time conditions affect the we welfare of their children if lives are to be saved during child rens reng year first of all 11 the test teat can give parents an indication of nf the health ot of their own n children in addition it can provide a basis for judging how adequately adequate iv the como community 1 is guard ing all 11 its children the test teat can thus offer a starting point tor for bet ter bering ng the conditions which affect childrens chil ehl drena dOs welfare some scott adverse to conditions n dit individual parents can i remedy others demand community action fin but t the he childrens bureau believes that I 1 in 0 one way or another children must be given increased protection if the baby death rw rae u is to be reduced he here us a it wai A in eng I fani led il luring ilk K ch the bemid second year of the or |