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(Continued From First Page.) recognition that the pre-school years are among the most important in the life of the individual, only a fourth of the children between 5 and 6 years of age are enrolled in kindergartens. “Anything that can be done publicly or privately to make State and municl- pal organisations aware of the impor- tance of the kindergarten and facilitate its development as a part of the public schools will recelve the hearty indorse- ment of the committee,” the report stated. President Hoover in his address last night declared that “if we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated and healthy children s thousand other problems of govern- ment would vanish.” He asked for safeguards and services to childhood beyond the reach of the individual parent, which can be xfl- vided only by the community, the State or the Nation. ‘Wilbur Outlines Plans. Follo Mr. Hoover's address Sec- retary of Interior Wilbur, chairman of the conference, that the t conference would nof result in a series of resolutions but in lirect, simple and interesting pro- with a continuation committee Text of Hoover’s Speech Child Health and Protection Held Duty of Adult Citizens—Results of Efforts Are Proved Sus- cessful by Decline in_Mortality Rates. ‘The text of President Hoover's ad- dress last night before the White House Conference on Child Health and Pro- tection follows: 3 Som more than & year ago I called ‘& small group of repre- sentative men and women to take the Initial steps in organization of this Conference on Child Health and Pro- tection. Under the able chairmanship of Becre Wilbur, and the executive direction of Dr. Barnard, organizaticn was perfected and enlarged, until by the Fall of last year something over 1,200 of our fellow citizens were enlisted from every fleld of those who have given a lfetime of devotion to public meas- ures for care of childhood. These skill- ful and devoted friends of children have given unsparingly and unselfishly of their time and thought in research and collection of the knowledge and experience in the problems invoived. ‘Their task has been magnificently per- formed, and today they will place before you such a wealth of material as was never before brought together. 1 am saf that the three days of your conference here will result in producing to our country from this material a series of conclusions and judgments of unprecedented service in behalf of childhood, the benefits of which will be felt for a full generation. Unselfish Work Praised. I wish to express my profound appre- clation to all those who have s0 gen- erously contributed the time and thought and labor to this preparation, and to you for giving your time to its con- sideration. The reward that accrues to you is the consciousness of something done unselfishly to lighten the burdens of children, to set their feet upon surer paths to health and well-being and hap- not | piness. For many years I nave hoped for such a national consideration as this. You comprise the delegates ap- ted by our Federal departments and y the Governors of our States, the e mayors of our cities, and the repre- ith | sentatives of our great national asso- machines ever enlarging man’s power and capacity, uwi‘th elecu‘-wlt! Ly clations, our medical and public health essions. In your hands rest the ledge and authority outside of the h?fia e ou whom I see before addressing y ‘These | me here in this Auditorium, I am mind- that the problem falls into three the protection and stimu- normal child; second, ald to the physically defective and handi- caj child; , the problems of the quent child. Asserting that of 45,000,000 children, 10,000,000 are deficient, with more than race, sweetest, for said | from the hands of 3 ful also of the unseen millions listen- B nambers of by cteines, tor s c 4 ‘Droblems are theirs—it i thelr — 35,000,000 are reasonably normal, 6,000,000 are improperly nour- ished, 1,000,000 have defective speech, 1,000,000 have weak or damaged hearts, 675,000 present behavior problems, 450,000 are mentally retarded, 382,000 are tubercular, 342,000 have impaired hearing, 18,000 are totally deaf, 300,000 are crippled, 50,000 are partially blind, 14,000 are wholly blind, 200,000 are de- linquent, 500,000 are dependent. Millions Are Deficlent. And so on, to a total of at least 10,000,000 of deficients, more than 80 per cent of whom are not receiving the necessary attention, though our know- e and experience show that these deficlencies can be prevented and reme- died to & high degree. have before you are not only replete with information upon each of these groups, they are also vivid with recom- mendation for remedy. And if we do not perform our duty to these children, we leave them dependent, or we provide from them the major recruiting ground for the army of ne'er-do-wells and criminals. But that we be not discouraged let us bear in mind that there are 85,000,~ 000 reasonably normal, cheerful human electrons radiating joy and mischief and hope and faith. Their faces are turned toward the light—theirs is the life of great adventure. These are the vivid, romping, every-day children, our own and our neighbors’ with all their strongly marked differences—and the more differences the better. The more they charge us with their separate prob- lems the more we know they are vitally and humanly alive. From what we know of foreign coun- tries, 1 am convinced that we have a right to assume that we have a larger proportion of happy, normal children than any other country in the world. And also, on the bright side, your re- ports show that we have 1,500,000 spe- cially gifted children, There lies the future leadership of the Nation if we devote ourselves to their guidance. Can Improve Lot. In the field of deficient and handi- capped children, advancing knowledge ir | and care can transfer them more and & “pr'oh:ufhfn probl f child We ems of - hood 2&1 affection. Thelrs is the provinee of joy and good humor. They are the most wholesome part of the they are fresher Yvea i of , mischievous, we live a life D as to what their opinion ;| may be of us; a life of defense against g it & £ 4 ] ; E i & ; § k 2 i o g g;flg& i L r;i | % l!ettorm mbea and the e%. increased.” i Church Potent Factor. side the Home, headed by James E. Wfl.." chief executive of the Boy The committee found that the church remains probably the most potent fac- tor in the outside recreation activities youth and by no means declining. report that 232,154 churches of now have 44,380,000 young, the report says, “ find a world which is a law unto itself. product of our blers, dope peddlers. Th ho"c.' 3 TS, ey offer ttle of value in the way of imagina- tive content and development of self activity, The finding: the present study indicate clearly that amusement parks, carnivals and steamer excur- sions are frequently the resort of adults of the criminal class. Efforts have been made to separate these amuse- | drinking and g:nbunl. this effort has n un- s0 ments from to di successful.’ An acre of parks and playgrounds for thousand persons in a cif m.!nmmthmhpr energy: we put them mof relief and a Sateguards Are Emphasized. fundamental of this is to set an under- . ‘There are safe and serv- Sy the Sommunity. tha State, or e commu 3 , or )I:&m——dl of which are beyond reach of the individual parent. We diminishing the mu?r.? mlfl; an values or invading sanctit of $h0l" R “and Ther maothers. Afver mothers. After saf and determined scientific fact, gives and home confers. None of that affection, that f soul, which is the great ent from mothers. Our pur- is to consider and give elp to strengthen her hand nd girl may have a fair has a_vast majority of thers. I am not so sure ajority of competent fathers. it we are concerned with here that are beyond her power. is what Susie and John take on n out from under her watchful !glee through the fm t, O the aucet, or the QR: pass around the d. cannot individually con- trol the instruction of our schools or the sef up of community-wide rem- deficient and handicapped HEgRexE WA T Egafi it i S g gfl 1 her what they are. She can be trusted to put public offi- clals to the acid test of the infant mortality and service to children in the town—when you set some standard for her to go by. Problem Is Complicated. And we need have great con- cern over this matter. Let no one be- lieve that these are questions which should not stir & nation; that they are below the y of statesmen or gov- ernments. we could have but one ly born, irained, aht;dflm . ihnu; problems of governmen would vanish. We would assure our- selves of healthier minds in more vig- bodies, to direct the energies of ts of b Moreover, one good community nurge will save a dozen fu- ture policemen. Our lem falls into three groups: First, protection and stimulation evidence that serious maladjustment results in individuals who have been deprived by accident of self-identifica- tion in soclety through not belonging to the family and also in those individ- uals who have become involved in a conflict between irreconcilable demands ?l family life and external social forces.” The fundamental human committee play- | tles. more to the happy lot of normal chil- dren. And these children, less for- tunate as they are, have a passion for their full rights which appeals to the heart of every man woman. We must get to the cause of their handi- caps from the beginnings of their lives. We must extend the functions of our schools and institutions to help them as they grow. We must enlarge the services of medical inspection and clinics, expand the ministrations of the family doetor in their behalf, and vi them uncared for. i and There are alto the complex problems | with lite, strong in moral hber, and | and has of the delinquent child. We need to turn the methods of inquiry from the punishment of delinquency to the causes of delinquency. It is not the de- linquent child that is at the bar of Jjudgment but society itself. Again, there are the problems of the orphaned children. Fortunately we are making progress in this field in some of the States through the preservation for them of the home by support of their mothers or by placing them in homes and thus reducing institu- tional services, N There are vast problems of education in relation to physical and mental health. With so many of the early responsibilities of the, home drained away by the rapid charniges in our mod- ern life, perhaps one of the most im- L4 rqmn! problems we shall need to meet n the next few years is how to return to our children, through our schools and extra scholastic channels, that training for parenthood which once was the natural teaching of the home. With the advance of science and ad vancement of knowledge, we have learned a thousand things that the in- dividual, both parent and child, must know in his own self-protectio at once the relation of our educational system to the problem envisages itself, and it goes further. The {ll-nourished child is in our country not the product of poverty; it is largely the product of All-instructed children and ignorant parents. Our children all differ in character, In capacity, in inclination. If we would give them their full chance, they must have that service in educa- tion which develops their special quali- ‘They must have vocational guid- ance. o Indusiry Takes Toll Again, there are the problems of child labor, Industry must not rob our chil- dren of their rightful heritage. Any labor which stunts growth, either phys- ical or mental, that limits education, that deprives children of the right of comradeship, of joy and play is sapping the next generation. In the last half a century we have herded 50,000,000 more human beings into towns and cities where the whole setting is new to the race. We have created highly congested areas with a thousand changes resulting in the swift a rural and agrarian people to an urban, industrial Nation. Perhaps the widest of difficulties with which we ing in the bet- ery | discipline for grostly incresse the hospital facilities | their them | for them. We must not leave one of D. C, THURSDAY, out of this of sani- native surroundings tact with the fields, stréams, trees and birds. Home life becomes more diffi- cult, . Cheerless homes produce morbid minds. Our growth of town life unend- gly imposes such problems as milk and food supplies, for we have shifted these children from a diet of 10,000 years' standing. Nor is our problem one solely of the city child. We have grave responsibili- ties to the rural child. Adequate expert service should be as available to him from cable disease, protect eases for the child of the farm is as much an'obligation to them as to the e Dandicupped 5y Jack of some country cap) cultural influences extended by the city. We must find ways and means of ex- tending these influences to the children of rural districts. On the other hand, some of the natural advantages of tl country child must somehow be given back to the city child—more space in which to play, contact with nature and natural processes. Of these the thoughtless city cheats its children. Archijtectural wizardry and artistic skill are transfc our cities into won- derlands of beauty, but we must also preserve in them for our children the yet more beautiful art of living. Modern Changes Drastic. Even aside from congestion, the dras- tic changes in the modern home greatly affect the child. Contacts of parents and children are much reduced. Once the sole training school of the child, the home now shares with the public school, the great children's clubs and organizations, and a hundred other agencies the =responsibility for him, both in health and discipline, from birth to maturity. Upon these outside influences does his development now very largely depend. ‘The problems of the child not always the problems of the child alone. In the vision of the whole of our social fabric, we have loosened new ambitions, new energles; we have produced a com- plexity of life for which there is no ecedent. With machines ever enlarg- ng man's power and capacity, with electricity extending over the world its magic, with the air giving us a wholly new realm, our children must be pre- pared to meet entirely new contacts and new forces. T must be physically strong and mentally placed to stand up under the inereasing pressure of life. Their urmblem is not alone one of physi health, but of mental, emo- tional, spiritual health. ‘These are a part of the problems that I charge you to answer. This task that you have come here to perform has never been done before. These problems are not easily answered, they reach the very root of our national life. ‘We need to meet them lqu‘l'!ly and to accuse ourselves as frankly as possible, to see all the implications that trail in our wake, and to place the blame where it les and set resolutely to attack it. From your exploration into the mental and moral endowment and opportuni- ties of children will develop new methods to e their creative work and play, to 'gl.bomute }o;:u -.n'g -eg- rigors of - o gude recreations into wholesome ” nels, to steer them past the reefs of temptation, to develop their characters, to them to adult age in tune prepared to play more happily their p.n’ 'u-. the productive tasks of human society. Inspiration Is Expected. | mation of knowledge and |such as lies before this these facts and put them I know that this gfoup has the vision and the understan .mglm tatives of peo- | thus endowed. It will rest ,wnhm to lfinmnm of that in- | spira in general pubiic con- science, and from conscience lead it into action, ‘The many activities which you are assembled here to represent touch & | thousand points in the lives of children. | The interest which they obtain in the minds and hearts of our country is & turning to the original impulse which inspired the foundation of our Nation, the impulse to secure freedom and bet- terment of each coming generation. The passion of the American fathers and mothers is to lift children to higher opportunities than they have them- selves enjoyed. It burns like a flame in us as & people. Kindled in our country by its first ploneers, who came here to better the opportunities for their chil- dren rather than themselves, passed on from one generation to the next, it has never dimmed nor died. Indeed human progress marches only when children ;xczl thel’: pu:nnu. In democnz 3:: rogress e sum of progress individuals—that they each indivi achieve to the full capacity of their abilities and character. Their varled gemnlllues and abilitles must be rought fully to bloom; they must not be mentally regimented to a single .mold or the qualities of many will be stified; the door of opportunity must be opened to each of them. May you who are meeting here find in your deliberations new fuel with which to light this flame of progress so that this occasion may be marked with s :mh lu.utt:r ‘u‘;‘n’ set us anew on road rot crowding com- plexities of modern life. SALE OF QUEEN QUALITY Arch Form Shoes At These Reduced Prices 7.85 , 8.85 These shoes are nationally famous for their style and comfort, for walking and semi- dress occasions. Shown in black and brown suede, mat kid and brown kid, patent and satin. All sizes and Baby Louis heels. widths. Cuban and CONTINUING OUR SALE OF 60 SMART MODELS. Newest Fall Shoes 5.85 Pumps - Strap Pumps - Oxfords Suedes - Kidskins and All Materials. Louis and Cuban Heels All Sizes AAA to C. Queen Quality Boot Shop 1219 F Street N.W. ‘There has not been before the sum- B NOVEMBER 20, 19830 = CHILD. CULTURAL PLAN S PRUPLSED System Suggested Similar to That Now Used to Aid Farmers’ Live Stock. A Why :;otdoummh!w children as for nizations, with the t 3 Jointly by "1: States ':nd the Federal Department of Agriculture, were recom- to the Conference on Child Health and Protection today by & com- mittee on_the pre-school child, headed by Prof. John E. Anderson of the Na- tional Research Council. “A type of organization which is so successful in meeting the scientific and practical problems of the farmer in raising cattle, hogs and corn might ciso prove successful solving the ing problems of the parent and child,” the committee reported. A study of normal young children in all aspects of living should be under- taken on a wide scale, the committee concluded after its own partial .dy. It urges actually studying children as they are from observation, and not by the methods of armchair philosophy. The members also want to train par- ents as teachers, ‘The average 4-year-old gets from one to four spankings a month, and is spanked more frequently by his mother Lflnn his father. Besides, he is scol quite frequently, but parents have grown away from such punishments as coL mnth him unfavorably with an- other c! corner. Typical Homes Seen. ‘These were among the findings of the Committee on Infant and Pre-School Child, headed by Prof. John E. Ander- son of the National Research Council. The committee workers had to go di- rectly into nearly 3,000 typical Ameri- can homes to get a sampie picture of the life of approximately 16,000,000 pre- school children, almost 14 per cent of the entire population, but an eleme t to which organized society pays very little attention. It found conditions better than it expected. ' In these homes of nts with elementary school educations it found the youngsters getting their baths dally during the Summer, clean under- wear twice a week, of their own and plenty of milk. Xt also found these comparatively uneducated folk doing their best to keep up with the latest| developments in the scientific care of the child, reading articles in the news- papers and magazines and occasionally new a book. It found an average of six kinds of toys in the home and one play article in the yard. But the investigators found that about half the children were afrald of something, but even the un- educated parents, trained by radiv talks and news articles, are trying to explain away the fear rather than soothe or di- vert the child's attention. In the average home, the investi- gators found, the 4-year-old has learned to say his prayers, can count a little, learned and songs, but The Finest Section of Petworth $7,950 4009 New Hamp- shire Ave. N.W. (Between Shepherd snd Taylor Sts.) Six rooms and bath and garage, on this beautiful well shaded avenue te ATk reservation. This home is ‘modern in every respect and in- glassed enclosed sleeping thoroughly screened. and § complete set of awnings It was buillt by Middaugh & Shannon, nd has been occupled since com- one of our leading hitects. row ‘house. Veme i Washineton * Open every afternoon and evening Phillips & Canby, Inc. Exclusive Agent—Realtor Investment Building Nat. 4600 lded | d or putting him to bed in &/ | have more time to learn ‘When they go to college many of them | the damaged hearts, 675,000 presentl: serfous behavior problems and M,oa But the darkest ftem of all was the ' ittee’s finding that there are approximately 6,000,000 malnourished American children, for only about 40,000 of whom is special provision being ade. Special education for handicapped children to. enable them to make ously handicapped, whose de be_overcome by special treatment. This condition is part the report says, the mind of the average special education is charity, not sound public policy.” The committee found a pitable inadequacy of trained teach- ers for the handicapped. The cost of special handicapped, the report points out, is between $400 and $500 a per indi- vidual. Prom the handicapped Prof. Berry's committee turned to the op- posite extreme—the child geniuses and near geniuses found in every community leading lonely lives, their possibilities neglected by society. There are gmximnuly 1,500,000 of these in the nited States, the committee found. Only about 4,000 are enrolled in special classes, Rebel at Routine. They are brighter than their class- mates and often than their teachers. They rebel against the routine estab- lished for children closer to the average. They learn their lessons uich;. ;‘r:'d ail, not because of lack of brains, but because of these bad habits. Special classes for them are advocated. ‘These neglected children are the salt of the earth, the t points out. From them has come the civilization of the past and will come the civilization of the future. 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