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 3016 March 31,1930. Cbild Health Day. Preamble. Vol. 45, p. 617. PROCLAMATIONS, 1930. military and naval honors under orders of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy may be rendered on the day of the funeral. Done at the City of Washington this eighth day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fourth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: WILBUR J. CARR Acting Secretary oj State. By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Congress by joint resolution has authorized and requested the President of the United States of America to proclaim annually that May Day is Child Health Day; and WHEREAS all the States of the Union, to~ether with Maska and Porto Rico, through their healih officers, medical societies, and other agencies of ~ood will, with the support of their respective Governors, are now actively supporting organIZed child healtli programs; and WHEREAS the White House Conference for Child Health and Protection, composed of groups distinguished in all the vital phases of child life, is mobilizing knowledge in practical application for sub- mission to the country at large; and WHEREAS while applied science and invention have given us world leadership in mechanical processes, we shall fall short of our highest aspirations if we fail to practice all that science can give in service of our funddmental asset;--Qur children; now Settingapa!"l May I, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United as, and InVIting ob· S fA·dhbd· M fir fhis Child servaDcetbereof. tates 0 menca, 0 ere y eSlgnate ay st 0 t year as Health Day! and I do invite all our people and all our agencies inter- ested in boys and girls to assist every reasonable effort of their com- munities to make this a day for organizing and coordinating interest in child health. Our children have the right to be born in health, to be well through- out bab:yhood and the preschool years; to be surrounded with moral and spint11al inspiration; to work and to play through primary school with well minds based on well bodies; to enjoy and to profit to the utmost by their higher schooling because of wholesome habits of thought and deed; thence to graduate into adult life, strong in body and inculcated with the sense of fair play and of responsibility for the rights of others. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty, and of [SEAL] the Indl3pendence of the United States of America, the one hundred and fifty-fourth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: J P COTTON Acting Secretary oj State.