f accepting Thanksgiving turkey or a park picnic from a
political leader who encourages inefficient government is sickness,
misery, deficient schooling, lifelong handicap; that children and
adults have health rights in school and factory, on street and
playground, which the law will protect if only they know when these
rights are infringed.

10. _Central supervision of school hygiene._ In private and public,
boarding and day, country and city, reformatory and military,
commercial and high schools, the index--physical welfare of school
children--should be read and interpreted. Headquarters should learn
whether or not physical examinations are made and whether harmful
conditions are corrected. So far as public schools are concerned,
"headquarters" means for cities the fact center that informs city
superintendent or school board; for rural schools, it means the county
superintendent's office. Whether city or county headquarters have the
facts and act accordingly should be known by state superintendents.
Whether state superintendents are demanding the facts and educating the
county and city headquarters of their states should be known to the
national commissioner of education and by him published for all the
world. Some people think the state health board should be responsible,
others the state educational authority. The important thing is to make
some one officer responsible. Methods can be easily worked out if the
need is conceded. Legislatures will gladly confer the powers necessary
to reading the index of all public schools.

As for parochial and private schools, they may resent for a time public
supervision of their hygiene teaching and practice. However, the case
could be so presented that they would ask for it, because it would help
not only their pupils and society but the schools themselves. No
religious belief or private investment can afford to admit that it
disregards child health; state supervision would require nothing more
than evidence of adequate school hygiene.

11. _Information gained at school regarding conditions prejudicial to
community health should be published and made the basis of an
aggressive campaign for the enforcement of sanitary laws._ Ten thousand
uses can be made of the information gained at school, ten thousand
forces can be made to do educational work, but only a few kinds of work
can be done effectively at school. Franklin Ford has said: "You can
relate school to all life, but you can