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i "ix i day, DEcraium I.
NEXT GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK ADMITS
HE LIKES TO SEE GOOD HORSE RACING
Bureau Organizes Branch to
Direct Mothers With Refer
ence to Health, Games and
Play of Children.
YHfc. SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES
UNCLE SAM HELPS
HOI EDUCOT
WASHINGTON', Iec.4. ".-Vnd Ml
the information you can to these
mothers. We ar- : miles' from a
doctor. o many women die."
"Many women in this district live
from to lU'i miles from a physi
cian." Appeals like these received by tho
Ijurcau of education throughout the
United States in the past year indi
cate tho need which mothers, espe
cially in remote distric ts, fel for ad
vice in the care and training of their
children.
In recognition of these needs the
home-education division of the bu
reau of education has Lecn establish
ed. Its objects are:
"To help parents in the home edu
cation of their children with reference
to health, camcs and play, early men
tal development, and formation ofj
trior.ll habits." Also " to interest boys
bov.H and irirls who have left school'
and are still at home." The method
is "by directing their home reading
and study; and to further the educa
tion of the parents in the home."
To accomplish this the bureau of
education cooperates with the na
tional congress of mothers and parent
teacher associations, with a view to
reaching as many homes as possible.
A series of bulletins on home edu
cational problems has been prepared
and parents desirin.fr advice in child
nurture and home making may receive
i. from the bureau.
As a basis for further work the
home-education division has obtained
a carefully selected list of women in
all parts of the United States to co
operate in extension of opportunities
to all parents lor education in homo
making'.
County superintendents of schools
were asked to furnish the names of
women in their communities who
could be depended upon for a certain
amount of initiative and leadership.
Ciet 10,M0 Names.
Through the efforts of 1,593 wo
men thus selected and from other
sources, tho bureau has been furnish
ed with nearly 40,000 names of moth
ers who feel tho need of information
on the care and home training of
children .and it is with these 40, 000
mothers that a beginning has been
made.
The bulk of the requests are for
held in the problems of home making
and the care of children. The mothers
ask the bureau for help in choosing;
literature, in reading courses for
themselves and their children.
They ask for bulletins on "home
matters, material for home study for
boys and girls; literature on moral
training; books suitable for children
who have completed the common
t chool course; methods of bringing to
gether the homo and the school; sug
gestions for forming1 sewing and cook
ing classes; and information neces
rary for forming parcnt-teachcr asso
clatiom. Some of the states, through packet
libraries and by other means, aro
reaching theso people who aro with
out access to the usual sources of in
formation. No Kflort to "Krai-It Mothers.
In most localities, however. no effort
Is made to reach the mothers them
elves with tho facts that are essen
tial to the sound development of the
children and tho home.
It is in this Held that the home
rducation division plans to do its work,
not by Interference with local condi
tions, hut a.s a clearing house of in
formation for ttate and local author
ities. I.n connection with the foregoing
CJov. McCreary of Kentucky recently
announced the appointment of a
state illiteracy commission and tho
beginning of a campaign to eliminate
illiteracy from his state.
A thousand volunteer teachers spent
the latter part of the summer at work
in the "moonlight schools" teaching
Kentucky's l'OS.000 adult illiterates
how to read and write.
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NEV YORK. "I like to see a good horse race," said Governor-elect
Charles i. "Whitman of New York state to an interviewer today. Then he
added: "Rut, of course, the law prohibits gambling, and I am always in
favor of enforcing the law."
From this remark racing men hore aro deducing the inference that Mr.
Whitman will not be illiberal on the subject of sports and a new era of
racing brilliancy is predicted.
Kxtra fine carnations, 4 0c a dozen,
Saturday. All colors. Reyer Moral
Co. Advt.
TRY NEWS-TIMES WANT ADS
MEXICAN LEADERS
MAY-GET TOGETHER
"WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. Georgo
Carothers, Mr. Bryan's special agent
with the forces of Gen. Yilla, is with
the Villaista generals at Cuernavaca,
a suburb of Mexico City, endeavoring
to bring about a conference between
Gens. Zap;;ta and Villa.
(Jut of this conference department
ollicials expect some delinite agree
ment which may restore order at the
Mexican capital, although there is
still ahead then, they say, the elimi
nation of Gen. Carranza, who has es
tablished his government at Vera
Cruz, and is backed by a large army
which Is fed from the revenues of the
port of Vera Cruz.
The department is informed that
on Nov. lS Carranza and his chief
military aide, Clen. Aguilar. were at
Tezuitlan. The dispatches to the de
partment describing conditions in the
city of Mexico, say:
"The Zapatistas, very mcagerly
clad, some being barefooted, patrolled
tho city and the army of the north is
encamped in the suburbs."
Other dispatches to the department
say that good order prevails at Ciudad
Porliro Diaz and at Monterey.
George Coler, an American citizen
of San Antonio, charged with commit
ting political offenses, has "been given
the liberty of Monterey" and may
soon have "complete liberty."
A shortage of corn, beans and rice
is reported from the districts of Monterey.
VILLA AT CAPITAU
JUAREZ, Mexico, Dec. 3. Gen.
Villa entered the palace at Mexico City.
Thursday night at the head of 5.000
of his northern veterans, according to
a telegram received by Tomas Or
nelas, commander of the Juarez gar
rison. The entry was made with Kmiliano
Zapata, Provisional Pres't Gutierrez
and the Zapata troops who were in
the suburbs.
Guayamas, the commanding port
on the west coast of Mexico, was cap
tured by Gen. Ramon Iturbe, com
manding1 the Carranzaista troops, ac
cording to Information received
from Nognles, Sonora, Thursday.
A tight between American filibust
ers who were escorting an ammuni
tion train across the line occurred
Thursday near Palomas, Sonora. and
three Americans iire reported killed.
Villistas attacked the train, losing one
man. The ammunition was captured.
Extra fine carnations, 40c a dozen,
Saturday. All colors. Beyer Floral
Co. Advt.
With the comnletion of present
railway improvements in Manchuria,
the trip from London to Japan will be
reduced from fourteen days to twelve.
Extra tine carnations, 4 0c a dozen,
Saturday. All colors. Reyer Floral
Co. Advt.
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(Unsweetened Sterilized)
Ordered by United States Government After Severe Tests
Uncle Sam Rigidly Safeguards
The Health of His Seamen.
The Commissary Department of the
United States Government, realizing that
the physical fitness of our Navy Itfen in
peace or at war, could not be maintained
by the use of a milk that was subject to the
slightest possibility of decomposition, or
dered tests made of concentrated milks.
Sunset Evaporated Milk Was Se
lected and 1,500,000 Cans Ordered.
And on all of Uncle Sam's Dreadnaughts,
Cruisers, Destroyers, Submarines, etc.,
Sunset Milk is served on the mess tables of
the Jackies and in the Officers' quarters. It
v is also used in H cooking and baking on
board ship. v ' - v
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Of the 1,500,000 Cans Not a Single One
Was Returned as Imperfect
This remarkable record is impressive. If
an evaporated milk withstands the severest
tests of all use on board ship, subject to
climatic changes and a hundred other con
ditions unknown in ordinary use it is the
safest milk to use in your home.
Being Unsweetened and Free From
Artificial Preservatives
and containing nothing but pure Cow's
milk reduced to creamy consistency by
evaporation and later thoroughly sterilized
and sanitarily canned, it is fret from all
dangers that constantly menace milk deliv
ered by dairymen.
Sunset Evaporated Milk once tried is
usually used for all purposes,
All Grocers.
NATIONAL GROCER CO., WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS, SOUTH BEND.
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NEWS-TIMES WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
Jnlow
We
By MRS. JULIAN HEATH,
President of National Housewives' League.
SOMKWHKRB on the statute book there is
a law that covers nearly everything that
ought to bo corrected. The trouble Is
that the laws are not enforced and there has
heretofore been no known way to have the
laws enforced.
Th National Housewives League has, I
think, at last discovered the key to tho prob
lem. In our ficht for pure food and cold
storage abuses we were met with the discour
aging announcement by the New York State
Board of Health that they would like to enforce
the law but could not promise to do so because
they did not have inspectors enough.
Tho women of the Housewives' League at
once offered their services without charge to
the State Board of Health to act as inspectors
and see that the law was enforced. This offer
was accepted and the women of the House
wives' League now serving throughout tho
city as inspectors without coat to the city or
State, and at last the law is being enforced.
The wide application and importance of this
has not et been perceived. I believe that this
action by the women cf the Housewives'
League will have far-reaching results. We
havo opened the way for the enforcement of
the law in every direction.
If such a man as the late Commissioner
Waldo will not use his 11.000 pclieeraen to en
force the law we can make it so uncomfortable
for such a police commissioner by making our
selves citizen Inspectors that he will be com
pelled to do his duty. If a man like Waldo
should again become the head of the police de
partment we now know a way to see that tho
laws ar enforced.
"We haven't sufficient inspectors or police
men to cod- with the situation'' Is tho stock
Way
excuso given by inefficient officials whenever
the existence of public abuses which they have
failed to correct is called to their attention.
The answer is a familiar one to every one
who has ever had extensive dealings with pub
lic departments.
Undoubtedly it Is true in some cases. Tho
unfortunate part about it, however, is that even
public spirited citizens have been wont to ac
cept it as final. The object of this article i3
to point out that it need not be final at all.
The housewives' League, at any rate, has found
a way to overcome the difficulty, and it is one
which might be applied by public-spirited
bodies cr citizens wherever public officials de
clare their staff is adequate to enforce the
laws.
As I have said, the stock excuse given by
Inefficient public officials is often more or less
justified. Quite frequently the law which
creates a public department expressly provides
for the number of inspectors or other officers
to be employed by it. Sometimes that number
proves inadequate, and the work of that par
ticular body then becomes Inefficient. Hither
to the only plan considered feasible in such a
contingency is to have tho law amended, but
the process of amending a law i3 necessarily
flow, even when any one shows suicfi'ient in
terest in the matter to fight for it
More often, however, the chief obstacle In
the way of enforcing a useful statute or. other
regulation lies in an insufficient appropriation.
Lack of funds means lack of inspecotrs, and
lack of inspectors means non-enforcement cf
the law. The abuses the law was intended to
correct flourish because offenders go ucprose
cuted.
An excellent case in point Is that of the cold-
storage provision which the New York State
Board of Health passed a couple of years ago.
Theso were aimed at the abuses of the cold
etorago business from which the whole country
had lone been suffering. Tho regulation in
Cop J ri(
to
question required retailers who dealt in cold
storage provisions to expose a sign in their
stores Indicating that fact.
But New York's Su. Board of Health had
only ten inspectors Lo cover the whole State
of New York, and if was considered almost
useless to attempt any serious enforcement of
this very necessary law.
The result was that instead of attempting to
enforce the law partially, which would no
doubt have led to accusations of discrimina
tion, the Health Board decided to repeal It al
together, and it was repealed.
There was a case of a good law being taken
ofT the statute books simply because the rich
State of New York hadn't provided for a suffi
cient number of Inspectors to enforce it.
This situation came to the attention of the
Housewives' League a month or so ago, and
we at once decided to remedy it if possible.
Our first step was to seek the re-enactment of
the Health Board regulation.
V'What Is the use of having the regulation on
the statute books" we were asked, "when q
haven't sufficient Inspectors to see that it is
complied with?"
Then it occurred to us that the situation
might perhaps be saved, if the State Board
would accept some of our public-spirited mem
bers as "volunteer inspectors." If tho State
couldn't or wouldn't appoint sufficient inspect
ors to carry out its own laws it ought at least,
we argued, accept the services cf citizens who
were willing to undertake the work gratuitous
ly. As men volunteer for active service in
time of war, we were willing to volunteer for
active service in time of peace.
Much to our surprise and gratification, our
proposal was favorably received. The State
Board of Health at once re-enacted the regula
tion and appointed four of our members as vol
unteer inspectors, with the same powers ar.d
duties as the regular inspectors, who were paidN
by the State.
Similar progress has been made in at leat
two other States. In New Jersey, Miss Kdith
Deschler, of New Brunswick, head of the New
Iht, li14, by th Star Compiay, Great IJiiuin iajhu
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Jersey Housewives' League, has b-en ipp::i:ii
ed a volunteer inspector cf the State iioid
of Health there, and Mrs. Alfred O. Dunk, cf
Detroit, head of the Michigan Housewives
League, has obtained a similar appointment in
the Michigan State Department of Health.
Obviously this plan is capable of general ap
plication. There is no reason at all wy the
Housewives' League should be the onl. public-spirited
body to avail itself of a really so
universally needed.
Take, for Instance, the evil of unsaitary
barber shops. This, I understand, is prevalent
throughout the country despite the fact that
almost every State has excellent laws aimed
against it.
In New York the Sanitary Code provides that
barber shops shall be conducted in accordance
with regulations adopted from time to time
by the Board of Health, and the regulations
which they have adopted would serve the pur
pose excellently if they were enforced.
I am told, however, that there are very few
barber shops in which one or more of "these
regulations are not violated every single day
in the year, and diseases are contracted and
disseminated a3 a result, yet so far as I know
there has r.ever been a single prosecution for
violation of this provision.
If you a?.c the local Health Department why
no real effort has been made to enforce the
Sanitary Code in this respect, you will be told
that the limited number of inspectors makes
any real crusade against unsanitary harbor
shops impossible.
Here, then. Is an excellent opportunity for
public-spirited men to serve the community.
If they will not or cannot secure the enforce
ment of these, important sanitary regulations
in their private capacities, let them apply for
appointment as "volunteer inspectors." Com
missioners of the different municipal depart
ments may hesitate at first to employ volun
teer Inspectors, but once they admit that they
have not sufficient men to execute the laws
themselve3, they will be in no position to resist
very strenuously a movement on the part of
reserved. -
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JiXiUkli. Cw j --w' vV.l
pt'.blic-spiriJul citl.-.s to supply th'-.m gratui
tously. When thr- House?. iwv League was orjablzed
a few yv.rs ft,"o to "-jpliold the enforcement of
laws which a;T ' : Koi mij-pIIcs, the lamlly
health, ti.e cost of living and to sicare further
legislation, when necessary, toward that end,"
its slogan was "every housewife her on In
spector." Obviously that slogan suuge-sts the ileal con
dition. If every housewife and every citizen
were to interest themselves in the eniorce
ment of laws made lor public protection we
wouldn't nerd any oioials at all.
But, as It is, the work of protecting the many
is left to the public-spirited few, and for the
present, at any rate, relief from public abuses
must come mainly as a result of pro?p"utlons
instigated by paid oM'icials or volunteers.
There is no rTa.-on why the authorities should
turn up tbelr noses at the proff.-red assistances
of private Individuals, provided, of course, that
discrimination is u.--d in a;: ointlng them.
In the cae of the Ho !-'".vives' League mem
bers v:o have bom appointed Inspectors In
the State Boaid of Health, the utmost pre
cautions were used In selecting them. W
realized that a very Important principle was at
stake and the success or failure of this experi
ment w ould determine, its f lture application.
For that reason v.e tender' d the names of
women who we were certain were competent,
earnest and public-spirited enough to j rove
satisfactory to tho Stat- authorities, ami we
all agreed that the volunteer lnsj.ectorf sriould
be under the exclusive direction of the D03rd.
The same care would have to be taken la
selecting volunteer inspectors for other de
partments. It would never do to t;rant au
thority to private citizens Indiscriminately.
With proper precautions, however. I believe
volunteer workers would form a valuable Ad
junct to every over-worked department la the
country, and I hope to see the principle wblci
the New York State Hoard of Health has been
wise enough to adopt eneially appHeC
throughout the country.