The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1919, Page 28

"Science Could In the Dr. Lenna L. Meanes ( Gives Medical Association, and boards of healt! the cold verdict of That fine messa, tions was given m and dignified spons: Bhe was one of the earliest pio- neers of the “better baby movement,” which has swept the country and Deen taken up so enthusiastically in! New York. Away back in 1911, out im Iowa, Dr. Meanes wus medical Girector of the Baby Health Confer- ence of the Iowa State Department of Agriculture, when that State de- ded to go in for producing babies aa femarkable as ite prize pigs and pumpkins. Dr.‘Meanes is a graduate of Towa State University and of the Towa College of Physicians and Sur- géons, and she has served on‘ the staff of- several Des Moines hos- Bhe also has worked loyally und ; Qe vicAnes _ etticiently for babies in two import-| chairmanships; that of tho ae oe and Children's Welfare ommittes, Council of Health and Instruction of the American Assoctation; and of the! Welfare Committee, Pubiic) Section, General Federation of Women's Clubs. “Making babies better is a fine! “thing.” I observed to Dr. Meanes, | | when I finally had cornengd her in eRe of the offices of the conference, “pat you know the old rhyme about | ‘without hasting, without rest, #0 from better, unto best.’ I wish you ‘WOuld tell me some of the things wo | should do if we want the BEST ba- ‘ies in the whole world, the babies so geod that no improvement can be made on them.” “We must see to it that every child | te born well, that after birth he is “fed, housed and clothed well, that he a) proper sleep and proper play, any slight defects are corrected at ‘once, that his general health, his t and his growth are watched Fesponsible authorities and any promptly remedied, that he goes to schoo! his health is matter of community care and gonservation,” she replied, “The Federa! Children's Bureau has ® splendid programme, with which ‘the rest of us interested in the wel- of babies and children aré co- heartily. “But it we want the best babies in ica we must have the best To-day the old conception “ ‘the good mother has changed and tremendously, It iy no @ case of ‘me and my son * The woman who merely takes most loving and scientific care of , ehildren in her own household is | oat ility of all the other little! and be their mother too. That phe must interest herself in ail the helpful community movements better milk. more playgrounds, ‘Aurses and health centres—th that are trying to make ALL the best, without dis- . FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919 America Best Babies Be Followed Before “100 Per Cent.” Children Can| Be Made a National Achievement—Before the “‘100| Per Cent.” Baby There Must Be Produced the 100 Per Cent.’’ Mother. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Coprricht, 1919, by The Press Publishing On. (The New York Evening World), MERICA can have the best babies in the world—the best because | nothing can be better than perfection. pull together with the Federal Children's Bureau, the American | can make a land of 100 per cent. not only “dest"—as of course they are now point of view of mother love, physically, mentally and morally. of Women Physicians now holding its sessions ¥, W. C. A. headquarters, No. 600 Lexington Avenue. Dr..Lenna L. Meanes, of the conference's programme committee, about “best babies” is because she knows #0 Much about mothers can be taught how to ea “the best mother, unless she does | more. She must accept the | Give Whole World List of Rules Which Must | By Max S. Watson Coprright, 1610, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) OW can I tell if the man who comes to mo looking for h& job ag a” skilled mechanic knows his trade? Anak him trade questions, A trade question is based upon ex- jact knowledgo of a trade and Is word- ed tn such @ way that It has only short answer, It can’t be bluffed trade knowledg If you don't believe it. newer any the twenty the end of tha worked at | If all of us, ‘everywhere, . the doctors, nurses, social workers | bh in our respective communities, we | babies, of children | from the but “best” according to science, Ot and flawless specimens, | ust have rit and ¢ | questions Be of hope for the coming gonora- | © by one of the most conservative | ors of the International Conference | given at Jarticle, Unless you OF 8 come The reason I asked the trade for which the question written you will not b je to anewe better babies,” it. Try them on some one you know —— {Who belongs to that trade and Unction of money, birth, color, sex of | now casily he will answer each quas- any artificial division.” , (tien with the exact word or number i belay we must make democracy ‘that in given an the answer to it. He aie ec and br. When the army tackled tho bigest employment job tho world has ever “The same chanco, and & #004 | seen, the hiring and placing of 4,000,° chanee, for every baby born in the ip) ‘ need United States ia the ideal wo must Se ere eee sath el Mis batore UL” Wie sald jme problem t at every employer Js | Then, at my urgent request, ahe who must have skilled mechanics, It went into detail about some of the |“CUld have been poor managemen: definite work to be done if we are to “M4 costly to have sent men to France have & gatistation of beet babi 4a carpenters merely on their own Wrst, there must be many more Wor and find, when they arrived, maternity clinics,” she said, “whore | ‘hat they had never built more than a p for | back fen’ ‘They did send one man | ves [Over duting the early part of the yar cities, |{0 lay gaspipe because he said he was but |4 pipe cutter. They learned when | arrived that he meant s:noking pipes. There is quite a difference in the two jtrad ‘The army [men are themselves and for the little that aré coming. Tho big many of them, have such clinics, it would be splendid if one could be opened in every community, however small, Then we must, improve our obstetricians, so that every baby may | be, treated fairly on his entrance to no they gathered together the, world, |group of employment men and py- “More women must nurwe their chil- |chologists and mechanics and made dren, Ten bottle-fed babies die to /trade tests. The most important thing had to be sure of their one nursed by Its own mother. jabout these tewis was that they woman capable of doing uid | worked. Gund Det paby in the natural Way.) fue the army trade teats cad tot and there should be an unremitting |, “ sicaps effort to convince every mother of the |P° Used for hiring men for your fac- overwhelming desirability of this pro- |'F¥ oF Shop. In the first place they | bedure’ lure npt available and in the second place they are not suited for tndustry 'Y are too general. “The need of babies for fresh air is another point to be stressed, All You want quer through the West mothers are put-|'lon8 that fit your job and uot an | ting the little crib or carriage on the |#Mmy job. But you can use and | plagza and letting that be baby's bed- |*hould uso the principle of the trade room—of course taking care that he |test. ‘This article ts intended to tell is screened agninst Mics and mosqui- | you a little about how it can be done toes and his eyes shaded against] pefore you start to‘hire a man for the sun. The more fresh outdoor ait |any joy be sure you know cxactly a baby sots, the better, |what the job ix and have it all writ “There should be the most perfect |ien down no that you ean toll the ap- cleanliness for the baby, his cloth pitcant all about it. ‘This Is your Job his food and everything assoctated | Hoseription and the first and most im with him, When he begins to take | portant tool of the employment office. other food than milk, his diet should | staxe it as completo as you van. ‘Tell de of tho Mmpleat, mort easily di- lan tho nad things about tho job an gestible and the most nourishing |well ag the good ones, Be frank, 1f foods, He should get al. tho undis- jth e ma does not kno HM the fact turbed sleep he wants, Bie ee ttsae canes we eroqeut smedieal 2° will soon find them out, and 't is MAR HInLibta: pd toe Chase the pant Jetter to have him refuse the Jo than |method—outside tho large cities, | Wit after a few hours, which have their own machinery of| Also down an exact descrip: | milk stations and district nursing tion of what your experience has is the baby health conference, At} stown you to be the best man for the job in question, age, weight, height, nationality, eye- sight particularly the skill and kind of experience required are im- portant. After you know what your fob is and know what kind of @ man you would like to have to fill it, you are ready to find the man, If you are looking for an expert die sinker you want an expert, An unskilled man would spoil too much material, If you want to put up a wall you want such a conference the baby can be weighed, measured and examined for physical conditions by physicians us- ing the standard score card provided by the American Medical Association “So many ininor defects of sight, teeth, glands, weak arches, malnutri- tien and others can be remadied com- pletely if they are observed and treated in babyhood or early ehild- hood, Of the men chosen in the draft, thirty-three per cent, were rejectes! and for physical reasons, Nineteen pérja bricklayer, If you have a thread- cent. of thet rejections were due|cutting job on a lathe you want a to defects which could have been | tathe hand, and no one else will do. corrected if they had been noted | Giner considerations should not be and treated early in life, Could there A be more convincing proof of the use- | overlooked, but at present we are in- fulness of the baby and child welfare campaigns, with their strict physical examinations and subsequent terosted in the use of the trade ques- tion idea for picking that die sinker, provement?" conoluded Dr, Moanes. | Pricklayer or lathe hand, What is For the best thing about the babies |thd principle involved? seems to be that they have the boat | Btop and think about your own ee imen and women—veat American {business ‘There are many facta con- it that seem very common- citizens! With the Inventors An English inventor has patented) have been invented for the use of | A vest with lapels that are turned ee workers. 9° 3 and buttoned to form @ throat and) 6) mrench invention is an automatio | chest protector, | atte verver for restaurants in which food | ‘A recently patented treasure belt to|is displayed in a circular glass cov- be worn under the clothing is sus-|ered cabinet that is turned until the tye or not, is a new idea. And that is the | composition? 8 % said Farmer Sage, as his face took pended from the shoulders by stra pa | deaired object reaches « coln operated | ot eee ee son an-employinent | R EMAN—How many etrands| 4 mane Le ale 3. Seven, |on a glow of honest gladness, “she's |im such @ position that 1t will not bend | opening nia ary man must ask since he cannos p¢ AN | of wire are there in a halfinch guy |4, Twitch, , Felling. 6, Coal, 7,|what I'd call a real common-sense articles in its poe . | Levers outside a new gas range | expert in all trades, In the ary ma-| wire? Shellac, 8. Brake. 9, Twelve, 10,| gal, dressed sensible and proper in A telephone, microphone and pho- move a broiler tn@de to any desired |chinists were examined by men who} 4, HORSHMAN—What do you use| soldier. 12, Centre, 13, [old clothes without frills or fol-de- nograph have been combined by a, Position with relation to the heat, did not know a Stillson wreneh from/to hold an unruly horse by the upper] B-X, 14, Yoke, 15. ty. 16, Rol-| rols, I guess you oall ‘em, Bvery Siete inventor tn crensuit enunde Peer ater sprained. wrist and accurately | lip ler, founder, 1 19, Fehl- | mornin’ before the sun's hot she's out from the last to distant points or gov. | A% & ROR pushes open a now pen | classified as to their trade sk | §, TAILOR—-With what is the ing, 20. Interference ahead of the crowd, first lookin eral biases a: coon | door its back is sprayed with disin-| A trade test should not be usd In | sleeve fastened at the top and bottom| ‘The nest article will be devoted to|around and spottin’ the good bushes ute ee | | fectants, which a brush rubs into its |industry in @ set form with an exact | in a coat sieeve? the rules to follow in writing trade}and fixin’ in her mind to keep away Paper eleevo protectors that are hide, the lower part of the animal's scoring method as in the army, The) 6. MOULDEK—What is generally | questions and suggestions of how to g o osterved, bind-pecked-to- fastened together with a gummed tag after thelr size bas been adjusted body being treated by # roller which | garven as & G00r ollh S inaiaieaiiie snes adlis_ooanatie naaien eeeemeeelieaiien Picking the Right Man for the Job THE into very elope contact with | ‘time and start findin Such facts as| SKILLED TRADESMAN First of a Series of Articles Written by Max S. Watson, Voca- tional Expert, Adviser to the U. S. Re-employment Bureau | | | | CAN YOU READ THIS CODE MESSAGE? This Is a Test of Your Mental Alertness and Adaptability. 138—144—177,—9—159— 126—27— 100—4—110—14—124—79—-9—164—-1—1—-15—. 29—40—55—67—82—96— 133-27 —138—25—179—129—193—98—198 — 48 — 47 — 114—206—122—8—170 [S| |M| Rio |z [wie |7|alH |v |B lF |o|P| 1 6 0 es | ir osha 39 |72 | 85 | 96111 |124|157|150| 163 |176| 169202] Ra 99 |112 125 |158| 151166177 |190e03 159] 152 16s 178191 leod a1 | 114 [127 |140| 155] (6 129192 205| L. U5 167\I Vi 191] D | || | | 7 [oon leo P| A T | | / Translation of Code Message WRITE FOUR LETTERS ON EACd SHORT LINE—TIME ALLOWED, 41-2 MINUTES, DIRECTIQNS—The list of numbers printed at the top is the CODE MESSAGE. Each of those numbers stands for two lettors in the KEY chart_below the message. Find the first number in the code message, which 138, among the numbers in the key. Then find the letter in the key which is directly above 133 at the top H. Next find the letter which is directly to the right of 128 at the right hand side of the A. The lett HA are the two letters for which the number 138 stand: Do the same with the 144, which stands for VE. After you hav» found tho letters for the first two numbers note the the letters for all the other numbers. Cross off each number in the code message as you find the lette: flor which it stands. Write these letters for which the numbers stand at the bottom of the page under the “TRANSLATION OF CODE MES3AGE.” The letters will make a message of four-let- er words with a complete word on each short line. To pass the test you must have decoded the letter in not over four and one-half minut OTHER TESTS OF Your INTELLIGENCE Witte BE GIVEN iN: MR. WATSON'S SUBSEQUENT ARTICLES. no | ac | of statements of the appli- | He may tell you that he place to you, but you will find +h one knows those facts unless they irac cants, isa | knots and sappy places before paint course of bricks called if the brick: | are set on end? can state, without guessing, how many times a locomotive puffs to each com. plete ‘Fevolution of the drive wheel. tion work and can lay off the rafter | euts for any kind of a roof, ask him this question: What figures on a steel sure to earn it. Jout of luck. yourself, whether tne answer is right | generally used between words in hand | does the signat Q-R-M mean? | trade questions should be used as! mixed with wand to make green sand past of the interview to check up tne facing? about making up @ #et for your ow employment office, 7, PAINTBR—What do you do to|cans with huckleberries to be sent lin that businegs, Every line of activ-|machinist who has done fine work | ing? ity has its own language and its own|where he uses a mocrometer a great] 8. SHBETMETAL WORKER — names for tools and-methods; its own |deal, He proves it if he can answer What machine is generally used in] niga yoy think pickin’ berries is plain slarig expressions, There is no person |this question; “How many complete | forming skylight bars? pickin’ berrics, Well ‘tis and ‘tain’t, reading this article who has not! turns of the barrel of a micrometer! 9% BOLGRMAKER — How many} jepondin’ I guess mostly on how, watched a locomotive start up hun-|cquals one-tenth of an inch?" threads to an inch has a standard) many perries you pick, what kind dreds of times and yet not one in a| If he ix a house carpenter and says | Stay bolt? ‘ou pick and last but most interestin’ ‘ >| 10, BRICKLAYER — Wh: = hundred, unless they are trainnien, that he has had charge of conatruc-| 10. BRICKLAYPR at is a 11, DROP FORGER (Board Ham- ‘The answer is “four.” Wete you |square do you use to lay off the top ee esata Kind of wood is the| (i oitcen, “all fussed up in high- ‘ | : joard made 1 right? How many can tell why at {and bottom cuts of a hip rafter on a x eta inves, $c ga ea times of ie ent te gree | PALE pitch roof? 13, STRUCTURAL IRONWORK- HO LENE jase petticoat bein lis crescent shaped? Most of you will| If he is an engineer and says he gly More bes you start to reave up| iO "1. shreds ‘a her satin gown say it is because the shadow of the|knows how to set slope stakes for eri Of triple blocks for a heavy| on” tained black and ® hair not earth hides the rest. Of course that |road construction, use this one and ore ss = : : that’s disintergratin’? has nothing to do with it. ‘These /others like it: How fur from the cen- Prag piliosle dag SB MEAN YW Ua Metin how she find with the questions serve to illustrate that peo- |tre line of a 16-foot railroad fl do] SveaAa ate name for fexible berry bushes, flittin’ from here to : ess they have |you set the slope stake for a 5-font . yhdd i und; ple do not learn facts unless they hav oH ‘ t ane aa fl res 14, LOCOMOTIVE MACHINIS there and back agin and around} jto know them in their everydny Um | : BR Fe Pe ee ot by | What are the guides fastened to at! she's already deserted enough Bulgin’ | rnia is why trade questions will these questions can be answered bY | 16 yack end? hes to fill several gallon cans, Ipick a tradesman, He knows the |"ot more than two words. If in the} 45 yagi HAND—How many{though she's been pickin’ for an hous language of his trade, You may say |COUrse of an interview you asic ten} gog, there in the angle of the|she's barely covered the bottom o| lthat a superintendent of construction {uch questions and they are all an-| ooint of a lather contre? her own small pail. i c would be able to answer a carpenter's | SWered correctly, you can be suro the | 46 What tool do you Then watch her friend,” sa question, Maybe he wobld, but he |Man knows his trade, Such questions | use to remove the sharp edge from| Farmer Sage as he pointed her out, will not apply for the job, and if he are 4 help to the real mechanic be-| prays? ‘dressed not quite #0 bad but foolin' Jdid you would be lucky to get him |cause he knows, but the man who is| “47, 7ORSHSHOER—What usually| with a lot of half-stunted, three- lor the money because he would be| trying to get by on a t is surely | causes drop sole? quarters stripped bushes. ITalt the 18. BRASS MELTPR—How many Asking an applicant questions about TRADE TEST QUESTIONS. pounds of metal does a No, 40 pot!toys with each berry and examines his trade is not a new idea, but ask-| 1, PRESSMAN — What are the | hold? ‘em like she was meéasurin’ each one ing him questions which have only |strips of wood that are used in a 19, CHEMIST—What solution is! for a new suit, She'll never begin to one or two words for an answer, 8) | form generally called? used to test for sugar? fill her pail, because there's nothin’ you can tell without being an expert} 2, COMPOSTTUR—What space is| 20, RADIO OPERATOR — What/ doin’ on the bushes she’s pickin’, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919 GUY gives two rings before he connects with wife these days—engagement ring and | wedding ring. Finds out hie party ‘won't answer, 80 he gives her the en- agement rock, Girl then answers— 3 Yes.” Guy gets bis party on the second ring, Yop, he gets his ‘party good and plenty—can’t get di connected unless he makes a call to j Reno, This two-ring business is no circus. Diamonds cost $400 a karat and you can't blame it on tho vegetable trust. Customer it in the same place as | usual—the neck—whether it’s a wring ring. Places it on the girl's third er and then he’s engaged. En- gaged in paying instalments for the next twenty months. Every month has a certain stone, according to the almanacs; but you an't tell that to a girl. ‘They play the came on diamonds the year round in her league. All the guy that buys the trock knows is that every month has a payment. Poor guy has as {much cha of ducking a payment ‘as he has of finding a string of pearls na clam chowder, Cost of karats ts the cause of long nents. Ambitious swain buys and it takes him three years to At the end of three A guy 6 ain eng ta ring come even again. years he buys a wedding ring. we know had his wedding ring en- graved S. O, S—C, O, D, And his name wasn't Smith and hers wasn’t Dooley—and yet the initials didn’t He. Girl of to-day has a failing for plat- inum, Lotta young men have a fail- Ing for the very sagne thing—usually followed by a bankruptcy sale. Plat- inum looks Ike silver on every thing except the bill, Often confused with radium, especially on price lists, Only platinum deposits are in Ruasia, but that aln’t the only place. Largest platinum deposit we evar a of was in New York. = so 4 gold ring and a pa brick are in the same class, Except that you can't peddle gold rings even among the country Janes. Girls now demand platinum or nothing. E pluribus platinum—that’s their mosto, | And when a chick wants platinum or By Neal R. O’Hara Covrright, 1919, by The Preee Publishing Co. (The Now York Bring World). hothing, count. You can @ool an engaged girl the way you can a pawubroker. You give her the ring and all your love. She won't doubt your love, but she’s sus- picious of the ring. It's elght to five she takes it to a jeweller—eight to five being the jeweller’s office houra. Jeweller gives it a stony glance and gives his valuation of it. Girl mul- tiplies it by two and then tells her friends uf! about it. It's a lot easier to break a flance than to break an engagement. Hardest part of breaking an engage- ment—for a girleis giving the ring back. Lotta girls will send back the guy's picture and ali his mush notes, but forget all about the ring. Forget all about it till the Sheriff comes her second choice dont |round with the papers. A busted romance means @ busted romaniac. All the guy has left ere 'js memories, and you can't rater money on them. Not unless you're a music composer. A swain and @ the- atrical producer that spend all their money on one engagement are in the some fix—haven't any show when their money's gone. A bride in hand is worth two in the announcement column, Never can tell when a girl may change beaux. Last thing they make up is their mind, A guy’s in the running only till he gets bis walking papers. It's a girl's privilege to give a feller the gate and expect him not to take offense. Smart Alea plays safe till he's signed the articles cf matrimony, That's tho r son a guy's a chump to have the engagement ring en- graved. No sap should count all his 88 on one finger. If the engage- ment fails to take, wise guy can use the same ring and the same line of tall on another party, Only clue to the ring’s history will be the finger Prints, kugraving the wedding ring’s an- other thing. If the wedding fails to take or take place, wedding ring’s a dead loss, Guy should first catch his go%8e, then have the engraving done, This ring proposition’s all wrong. Guy should seal his love with a kiss instead of a ring, and the kiss ar- rangement would be O. K. Seal and the guy would never be broken. TWO MINUTES By Herma OF OPTIMISM | n_J. Stich by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). “By Their Berries Ye Shall Know Them.” ARMER SAGE laughed a father- ly, good natured laugh as he watched a group of “city girl filing or trying to fill their gallon! -|nome to mother to make jams, jel- i pies and preserves. “Mebbe,” he said, “because pigs is on who picks ‘em, “Seo that lady over there,” con- tinued Farmer Sago as ho directed the party's gazo to a girl of about 8 time she picks and the other half she “But that’ last little girl there,” picks only where the berries are achin’ to fall and fill her can, and let me whisper she's sent off home over a gallon or two a day since she's been here, Yes, sir, it's pald her boant up here and more, “'n when she starts pickin’, it's Pleasure, by heck, to watch her, It’ twig after twig, branch by branch, from the bottom up, inside ‘n out, aad take it from me when she's through with @ bush there ain't enough good berries left to feed a sparrow what's Just had his fll. “Yes, sir, she's @ first olass Picker and I'll bet she's a good secretary or confidential adviser or whatever you city folks name ‘em—and, say, she'd make & mighty good housewife too, “You know," commented Farmer Sage, “that saying In the Testament, I don't just happen to remembes how much experience the man had what said {t, but he certainly said something when he spoke: ‘By their berries—I mean fruits—ye shalt know them,’ ” a HIS BUSINESS, HEN you insist that the et. ficer arrested you while you were quietly attending te your business?" inquired the Judge, “Yes, Your Honor, He caught me by the collar ang threatened me with horrible things un« legs I accompanied him immediately to the police eta~ \tlon,” Hum!" oO marked the Judge, “And you say you were quietly attendjng to your busi- ness at the time, making no noise or commotion of any kind?" ‘Certainly, your honor,’ Again the Judge looked doubtful “And what is your profession?” “I'm an appropriator, your hones,” “An appropriator? Of what?” “ce 1.| pieces, storm-spoiled specimens that most of the othese kill time with, She Si aac oe hi il a san “Ot other people's possessions, your honor, he newspapers, perkeps, would describo me as « burglan"—~ San Francisco Bulletin,