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SEPTEMBER,

Child Welfare and Race Progress

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Published in the Interest of Handicapped, Dependent and Delinquent Children By Children's Charities, Inc.

Announcement

This paper is published to disseminate news and ideas helpful to Handicapped, Dependent and Delinquent Children

O less an authority than our own Census Bureau tells us

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that in this country alone-our own civilized U. Ș. A. -approximately 300,000 babies under one year of age die annually. Here's the part that hurts: One-half of these babies die needlessly. Just think, 150,000 babies under one year of age die annually, in this country alone, from preventable causes. Ignorance is what keeps the little white hearses working overtime. There is but one logical way to stop this "slaughter of the innocents." Educate the parents and guardians. Education is prevention and the best manner of educating the people is by publicity..

This magazine will publish nothing but articles of vital importance in regard to Child Welfare and Race Progress, and no man or woman in the United States, who is interested in children, can afford to miss the coming numbers.

THE JUVENILE COURT RECORD is published and sold to you on its merits in the interest of general child welfare work by Children's Charities, Incorporated, which is a business enterprise, supported by subscriptions and sales of single copies of its magazines. Agents who sell this paper are allowed to state to persons whose patronage they solicit that the paper is published in the interests of homeless and neglected children, but they are not allowed to state or represent that said paper is published in the interest of, or for the benefit of any society, institution or particular work for children in the state in which the paper is sold. It will be a favor to the managers of the paper if purchasers will report any violation of this rule, as we do not intend to allow any misrepresentations on the part of any employe of this magazine.

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Does it Pay?

By L. E. Eubanks

R. BLANK frowned when his wife told him that an old friend was coming for a visit. He remembered Mrs. Collins; she was an upto-date woman, and Mr. Blank did not care for up-to-date people. In a few days, Mrs. Collins arrived. She courteously ignored all his covert challenges to argue, until he attacked her favorite subject.

"Too much culture," stormed Mr. Blank; "everyone is going culture mad; and things are no better than they were thirty or forty years ago." He tapped a newspaper with a condemnatory finger and continued. "Kids are no better than they were when I was a boy; my mother raised seven, and she did not have to be advised by scores of organizations and hundreds of magazines. Such an article as this makes me indignant; it implies that mothers know less about their offspring than strangers do."

"Well, let us hear the item," suggested his wife.

"Municipal

Mr. Blank read it aloud: child welfare work has extended to twothirds of the country's cities of more than 10,000 population, the Federal Children's Bureau announced. In twenty cities special divisions devoted to child hygiene have been added to city health departments. Nurses are employed in 100 cities to visit homes and teach mothers how to care for their children. Infant welfare stations with physicians in attendance are maintained in sixty. School girls are taught infant hygiene in many cities."

"That sounds good to me," commented Mrs. Collins. "I see no objectionable implication."

"You think then," Mr. Blank raved,

"that young nurses who are not even married can tell women who have had three or four children how to be mothers?"

"In a good many cases they can," the guest replied, firmly. "The mere fact of being a mother does not guarantee preparedness for a mother's work. You surely know that many girls little more than children themselves become mothers and know virtually nothing about the care of a baby. Generally, the mother love is divinely implanted, but regrettable to say, scientific knowledge does not come that way."

"Many of these mothers are twice as old as the nurses," Mr. Blank said.

"Granted," answered Mrs. Collins, "and further, many of them would know as much or more had they had the same training, or even a fair chance to learn. This is a day of specialization, and not every wife is so situated that she can give children the study the subject deserves. Here is where the school, the clinic, the organizations, the magazines, etc., render invaluable service. With money and time which the average housewife does not have, they study child culture, ascertain facts and disseminate these. That education and the whole child welfare movement positively is bringing good results is proved every day. Listen to this, from a Seattle newspaper." She had been looking through a scrap-book, and now read to him:

"The King County Juvenile Court has just closed the most satisfactory year of its history, according to the annual report of Dr. Lilburn Merrill, diagnostician of the court. A total number of 1,087 children, of whom 782 were boys and 305 girls, were brought to court. Fifty-four

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