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THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN OF THE KENTUCKY  
COMMITTEE FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES, Inc. E S
Published quarterly by The Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies, Lexington. Ky,  
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00 PER YEAR   II
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VOLUME III. NOVEMBER, 1927 NO, 3 I
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“Entered as second class matter June 30, 1926, at the P0st Office at Lexington, I I
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J`,} "The Time Draws Near the Birth of Christ"
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The little girl on our cover, who comes to play with the
I Red Cross class doll at the Hyden Dispensary, and flashes back
  at us in this snapshot such a look of triumphant motherhood,
  goes a long way towards putting Christmas into our hearts. We
_ are apt to forget what it means to motherhood. `
  During the past month one of us was in New York and
‘ went as a guest of that royal movie promoter, Elizabeth Perkins,
A head of the Film Mutual Benefit Bureau, to see the French child
{ Cosette in Les Miserables. In the poignant scene with the dolls,
i where the little girl, like so many of our mountain children,
  tricks out a rag to fondle, and then gazes with adoring eyes
upon the real dolly in the showman’s cart, we see an expression ·
L of that instinct whose age told in aeons,——that creative instinct,
J old as recorded time, which springs up anew in every girl baby.
y Why must she needs mother something, with the first outreach-
` ing of her tiny hands? Why plead so early for a life which will
· l one day pierce through her own?
l When Christmas comes we understand a little less dimly.
l The Light of the world could only come to His own through a
Y woman’s body. Only a woman kept the mysteries of His advent,
_ and pondered them in her heart.
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A writer in the Rotarian recalls that Woodrow Wilson once  Q
declared that, in his belief, the millions of people living in the L'
mountain regions of Kentucky, Tennessee, the Virginias and the  i`
Carolinas had been preserved there to supply a great future  ti
need in American life.  Y
If this is true, the reservoir holds the very finest material.  .
These mountaineer folk trace back to the stock, mainly Anglo-  T
Saxon, that settled the Atlantic Colonies 300 years ago. Coming  T
to the mountain wilderness, they remained there, unadulterated l
by foreign infusions, untouched by the jazz-mad world all about  a
them, holding still to the convictions and beliefs of their fore-  
fathers, speaking a language which clings to idioms and phrases v_ 
current at the time Jamestown and Plymouth were settled, sing- -3 
ing ballads in their log cabins that their progenitors sang in  
thatched cottages of old England and Scotland. .4 
These mountain people are capable of wrestling with the  I
world, when armed by education. They are not weaklings. it 
Their lives have been a continuous struggle for existence. Firs·t  
it was the Indian, the primeval forest and the predatory animal,  
and later came the fight to raise food crops and food animals on  
stony hillsides or in flood-washed valleys. Their wits have been y
sharpened on a natural whetstone. I
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y , On Saturday, October lst, before a crowd of Leslie County
 } citizens, we laid the corner stones of the two buildings which
 { comprise the Hyden Health Center and Cottage Hospital.
 I Mrs. Henning, Vice—Chairman, came up from Louisville
 xl especially for the ceremony and trowelled into the mortar for
  the corner stone of the district nursing wing, while Judge L. D.
I} Lewis, Hyden District Chairman, officiated in laying the corner
_, stone of the hospital section. Several of the leading citizens
gave short addresses; Mrs. Henning spoke a few gracious words·
 in about her friends Mrs. David Morton, and Mrs Gill, the two
 . Louisville women these buildings memorialize, and the Honor-
 AA able Clifton R. Breckinridge closed the ceremony with a brief
1 message. The invocation was by Mr. Westbury and the bene-
{  diction by Mr. McKee.
 E Since then the walls have slowy risen until the line of stone
s is just below the roof. The building stands in simple dignity on
E a spur of Thousandsticks Mountain and looks acros·s the little
  town to a far vista of the winding waters of the Middle Fork.
 “, The machine well drill has plunged its mammoth tongue 112
{  feet into the ground and found abundance of water. The stud-
 ' ding is up, and one may stand in a room and say: "This is the
 { Dis*pensary" or "There is the Living Room." The stone-work
 is is charming. Our mountain masons have a keen eye for beauty
  of line, and the window arches alone are a monument to their
’• art. The people of the neighborhood are so proud of the new
building that every Sunday sees a stream of them at the site
} commenting on the changes of the week.
_‘  wsmoovxzws BABIES
to  Wendover welcomed a variety of babies through November.
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helped with folding and stamping the Committee Christmas  
Appeals until an hour before his arrival! A second mother g
came with her baby for a good visit to have Miss Park help along 1
the breast feeding. Lastly, Dusty, the sheep—dog, had eight pups.  
THE New DISPENSARY W  
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The Nurses at Up River, Gladys Peacock and Mary Wille—  
ford, have built and equipped as their gift to the Kentucky w
Committee, a dispensary for their Stinett Creek section, which _» 
is at the outer bounds of their district. The site was donated by 3- 
one of the local district committee members, Mrs. Flora Morgan, I 
and the hauling by another--that public spirited citizen, Albert  
Hoskins. — p
The dispensary is an attractive building, a stone’s throw  .5
from the Creek, with a touch of the old in its roof of hand-hewn  
shingles, and much of the modern in its lining of beaver-board!  
A VERY ¤.|TT1.E BABY  
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The Up River nurses "cotched" a 2% pound premature baby, E  
who now, at six weeks, weighs 4 pounds, and generates his own  ;
body heat. He wisely chose an intelligent mother, from whom ‘  
there has been rare cooperation. Everybody is wishing them a . -, 
Merry Christmas. g
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A This autumn we did much eye work. Following Dr. Sory’s "§
visit we took 18 cases of tracoma to the United States Tracoma _ il 
Hospital at Richmond, Ky., from which some have already re- ?' 
turned, cured of that terrible scourge.  
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l Three little children, nearly blind from congenital cataract,
I and two with strabismus, have been taken to the Children’s
{ Hospital at Louisville and operated on there with marked suc-
. cess·.
A All of the 23 patients and their nurses travelled on passes
I of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. In reckoning up its
  dividends, does this corporation count in the vision restored, the
 } crippled children walking, the sick made whole—all of them,
g and they are many, transported without charge over its lines?
‘_  Perhaps corporations have no souls, but certainly the men of
 Q this one have hearts as big as the world’s need.
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 Q ‘ AMERICAN RED cR0ss
j Miss Alice Logan, the Supervisor, and the Secretary to the
 ;{ Director, Miss Martha Prewitt, attended the Regional Confer-
  ence of the American Red Cross at Hazard on October 26th.
 E Miss Prewitt spoke of the work being done in Leslie County,
 l stressing particularly the Junior Red Cross classes which have
  been regularly conducted by the Kentucky Committee at Hyden
  with excellent results. Mr. Henry M. Baker, National Director
  of Disaster Service and Miss Clyde B. Schuman, National Di-
  rector of Nutrition Service, were among the Red Cross officials
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Miss Ellen Halsall reports that she has moved from the one
room log cabin, which has been Possum Bend headquarter since
July, to the permanent center nearly finished. The nurses were
not quite ready to move, but the rain beat in on them so badly
T in mid-November, and the river was ris·ing so rapidly, that they
decided to get their belongings up to the new place while travel
was possible. They made three trips, the last one with their
horses swimming, but still, as Miss Halsall concludes trium-
phantly "we made it." She adds that the new center is, in her
opinion, "The most beautiful house ever built."
We have added two new nurses to our staff. Mis·s Rose
McNaught, former supervisor at Union Center, Henry St.
Settlement, New York City, joined us in October. Miss Ellen
Marsh, one of the Queen’s Nurses, came to us from Hove, Eng-
land, early in November.
Miss Lois Harris and Miss Frances Van Nostrand have com-
pleted a year’s work with us. This is as long as a nurse can
remain with us, who has not yet had her mid wifery training,
as we have only two posts available for nurses who are not mid-
wives. Miss Harris goes to the East Harlem Nursing and Health
Demonstration for a year’s additional experience in Public
Health, and then takes her midwifery on our scholarship be-
fore returning to us permanently.
Miss Van Nostrand, after a visit home, wishes to take the
two years study required for her B. S. Degree and Diploma in
Public Health Nursing at Teacher’s College.  
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An Announcement
The Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies held its
semi-annual meeting in Louisville, October 24th. There was a
large attendance of the members and all were pleased when Dr.
McCormack brought as a guest, the newly elected President of
the American Public Health Association, Dr. Bundeson, Health
Commissioner of Chicago.
At this meeting an amendment was passed to the Resolutions
adopted by the Committee upon its formation in May, 1925.
This amendment placed the governing power of the Kentucky
Committee in a Board of Trustees, the number of whom, both in
and out of Kentucky are to be determined by the Executive
Group from time to time.
Annual Membership in the Kentucky Committee for Mothers s
and Babies· from now on shall be as follows:
Members—Contributors of $5.00.
Sustaining Members—Contributors of any amount over
$5.00 up to $1,000.00.
Foundation Members=Contributors of $1,000.00 or more.
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NEW YORK COMMITTEE  
Mrs. Francis Boardman Miss Anne Morgan i
Mrs. Henry Breckinriclge Miss Margaret Parsons ii,
Mrs. John C. Breckinridge Miss Elizabeth Perkins l.
[ Colonel Francis Gordon Caffey Mrs. Douglas Robinson  
Mrs. Cleveland H. Dodge _ Mrs. Franklin ltouscvelt  
Mrs. Archibald H. Douglas Mr. and Mrs. Henry Randolph Sutphen ig
Miss Edith M. Hadley Mrs. \\*arren Thorpe 1
Ralph \Va1do Lobenstein, M. D. Mrs. liichnrd \Veil  
Henry Hamilton M. Lyle, M. D. Mrs. E. \Varing \Vilson ii
Mrs. Langdon Marvin C. E. A. \Vinslow, Ph. D
Mrs. Byron D. Miller Miss Ella. \\’oorlyard, Ph. D.  
BOSTON COMMITTEE .
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Mrs. Robert B. Almy Mrs. Homer B. Richardson  {
Mrs. Lincoln Baylies Mrs. John Rock A Mi 
Mrs, Arthur T. Cabot Mrs, Henry H. Sprague _
Mrs. Harvey Cushing Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer  
Miss Rose Dexter Mrs. XY. T. Sherman Thorndike  
Mrs. Clarence R. Edwards Mrs. \\`illian1 Vaughan  
Mrs. Robert \\'. Lovett Mrs. Barrett \Vendell `_
Mrs. George \V. Perkins Mrs. Frederick \\'hitwell  ie
CINCINNATI COMMITTEE i 
Mrs. Davis C. Anderson, (Chairman) i 
Mrs. Charles Anderson Mrs. \Vm. Cooper Proctor  
Miss Judith B. Colston Miss Dorothy Rawson ~
Mrs. A, H. Cordes Mr. and Mrs. Charles \\'. Short _ 
Miss Amy R. Campbell Mrs Henry Urner —
Mrs. Roscoe B. Crabbs Martin Il. Urner, M. D. ._ 
Mr. E. IV. Edward Mrs. Henry Matson X\’aite 1] 
Gcorge J. Hener, M. D. Mrs. liussell \\’ilson  `·
Mr. and Mrs. George Hoadlcy Mrs, John F. \Vinslow  
Mrs, James ll. Perkins Mrs. Philip KVyinan i 
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  _________ THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN 11
  Statement of Ownership
2 Statement of tl1e Ownersl1ip, Management, Circulation, etc., required by
tl1e Act of Congress of August 24, 1922, of
f' QUARTERLY BULLETIN
Published Quarterly at Lexington, Kentucky, for October 1, 1927.
  State of Kentucky Q SS_
'.‘ County of Fayette '
  Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid,
, personally appeared Mary Breckinridge, who, having been duly sworn accord-
Q ing to law, deposes and says that she is the Director of tl1e Kentucky Com-
` mittee for Mothers and Babies, Inc., publisher of the Quarterly Bulletin and
that tl1e following is, to tl1e best of her knowledge and belief, a true statement
{ of the ownership, management, etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date
tg shown in the above caption, required by tl1e Act of August 24, 1922, embodied
* in section 411, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this
  form, to wit:
  (1) Tl1at the names and addresses of tl1e publisher, editor, managing
1 editor and business manager are:
. Publisher: Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies, Inc., Lexington.
Kentucky.
_ Editor: Mrs. Mary Breckinridge, Wendover, Leslie County, Ky.
,  Managing Editor: Mrs. Mary Breckinridge, Wendover, Leslie County, Ky.
 __ Business Manager: Mrs. Mary Breckinridge, Wendover, Leslie Co., Ky.
  (2) That the owners are: The Kentucky Committee for Mothers and
  Babies Inc., the principal officers of which are: Dr. A. J. A. Alexander,
` Chairn1an, Spring Station, Ky.; Mrs. S. C. Henning, Louisville, Ky. and Judge
I  E. O. O’Rear, Frankfort, Ky. vice—chairmen; Mr. ·C. N. Manning, Lexington,
. Ky., treasurer; Mrs. W. H. Coffman, Georgetown, Ky., and Mrs. Joseph ,
¥  Carter, Versailles, Ky., secretaries; and Mrs. Mary Breckinridge, Wendover,
g  Ky., director.
I (3) That the known bondholders, n1ortgages, and other security holders
`_ owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or
  other securities are: None.
`· (4) That the two paragraphs next above, giving tl1e names of the
 ,_ owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list
 1; of stockholders a11d security holders as they appear upon the books of the
’ company, but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears
‘  upon tl1e books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation,
C the name of tl1e corporation or person for whom such trustee is acting is
‘  given; also tl1at the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing
, _ affiant’s full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions
y under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon tl1e
_ books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity
other than that of a bona tide owner; and this affiant has no reason to
.  believe that any other person, association. or corporation has any interest,
_ direct or indirect, in tl1e said stock, bonds or otl1er securities than as so
J ' stated by her.
  KENTUCKY COMMITTEE FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES, Inc.
"'  By Mary Breckinridge, Director.
‘ . Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of October, 1927.
  VV. S. EVERSOLE, Notary Public,
_  My con1n1ission expires January 1930. Leslie County, Ky.
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THE KENTUCKY COMMITTEE FOR
` MOTHERS AND BABIES, INC.
Its motto:
"He shall gather the lambs with his arm
and carry them in his bosom, and shall
gently lead those thatare with young/’
  Its purpose:
To safeguard the lives and health of mothers and young
children by providing trained nurse-midwives for rural areas
where resident physicians are few and far between—these nurse-
midwives to work under supervision; in compliance with the
Regulations for Midwives of the State Board of Health, and the
law governing the Registration of Nurses in Kentucky; and in
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