Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1918 — Necessity of Safeguarding Children Attending Schools Is Emphasized [ARTICLE]

Necessity of Safeguarding Children Attending Schools Is Emphasized

By OWEN R. LOVEJOY,

General Secretary National Child Labor Committee

i We must have a compulsory system of education, one which will not (permit truant officers to feel that they have done their full duty when they (have brought back to school children who have been staying away. We ■should make our schools so attractive and alluring that no child would Ibe willing to stay away. To do this there must be a combination of book Seaming and hand learning. j I advocate the physical examination of every child entering kinderand the system of following up that child with a record of his ( physical resources which will be like his own shadow. When he is through and ready to enter the business world there will be his health card iready to show his prospective employer. By this means, if we should have .another war ten or fifteen years hence, we would be definitely sure we Should not have a generation of weaklings to offer for service. Some of our states show 80 per cent of the volunteers rejected because they were physically unfit