to secure from all sections of
the country proper attention to the subject. Nothing in the world
can prevent free meals, free eyeglasses, free medical care, free
material relief at school, unless educational use is made by each
community of the facts learned through physical examination to
correct home, school, and street conditions that produce and
aggravate physical defects. The national bureau can mass
information in such a way as to convince budget makers in city,
county, and state to vote gladly the funds necessary to promote
the physical welfare of school children.

[Illustration: THE DARK-HALL EVIL IS HERE INDEXED BY ADENOIDS.]

How the committee got things done is often referred to. There is
something about a request for cooeperation, whether by schools or by any
other agency, that enlists the interest of those whose help is asked.
The reason is not that people are flattered by requests to serve on
committees, or that human nature finds it difficult to be unfriendly or
unkind. On the contrary, men and women are by nature social; there is
more joy in giving than in withholding, in working with others than in
working alone. Men and women, official and volunteer agencies, will
cooeperate with school-teachers when invited, for the same reason and
with the same readiness that ninety-nine farmers out of a hundred, on
the prairie or in the mountain, will welcome a request for food and
lodging.

[Illustration: WHERE "GETTING THINGS DONE" IS POSSIBLE BUT
"DOING THINGS" INEFFECTIVE]

Mothers will naturally take a greater interest in the welfare of their
children if held responsible for proper food and proper home
surroundings than if not reminded of their responsibility. In New York
City a woman district superintendent of schools, Miss Julia Richman,
has organized a unique "social settlement." She and several
school-teachers occupy a house, known as "The Teachers' House." This is
their residence. Here they are subject to neither intrusion nor
importunity; no clubs or classes are held here; visitors are treated as
guests, not as beneficiaries. The purpose these teachers have in living
together is to work out the methods of interesting private and official
leaders in community needs disclosed at school.

Where clubs and social gatherings are held in school buildings, it is
not unusual for a thousand mothers, recent immigrants, to meet together
in one hall to hear talks on the care of chil