Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 278, 3 November 1915 — Page 9
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"In April 191, Congress passed a law ' creating the Children's Bureau which was promptly signed by the president This law states that the Children's Bureau shall Investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life. It is given no powers of administration or execution. Its usefulness entirely depends upon the theory that, If the facts can be discovered and their relation to child welfare shown, the intelligence and conscience of the
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make such changes In law and custom as may appear necessary," said Miss Julia C. Lathrop, chief of the Children's Bureau at Washington, at the charity conference last night. "To investigate and report upon all facts pertaining to the welfare of chil
dren is a vast unaenaaing. 10 carry out this order the bureau was given a staff of fifteen people and an appropriation of about $25s000; Its first work could therefore be ' merely exploratory. A large correspondence began as soon as the Bureau was es -K1l-fci ! Vila I, that IKau
WHiiDun nut " . ymiu iiw mwio were certain things which the American people thought the Bureau ought to study and report upon. "Many letters came from individual fathers and. mothers asking information about the care of children and accordingly one of the first pieces of work undertaken was the preparation of a series of pamphlet! on the care of children. Thus far two number in this series have been issued, the first upon Prenatal Care and the second entitled Infant Care which deals with the baby up to the age of. two years. The bureau occassionally now receives a communication saying, 'Our baby is doing very well by your pamphlets thus far, but it will soon be two years old and it Is time you got out another pamphlet.' It is the plan of this series to embody information regarding the care and growth of children, both physical and social through the period of development. This is In itself an ambitious program and will require some years to carry out. These studies undertake to embody the results of careful research of the best material on the various topics considered, they are not offered as original contributions nor as final express- j
Ions, but only as statements of the accepted authorities from time to time. Letters Flood Office.
in tnis connection I want to Bay
mat the letters that come to the office, the demands for popular bulletins on the care of children, the interest and good-will of the mothers who make the Infant, mortality inquiry possible are
Improvement (n law or In enforcement Birth registration will never be complete In this country unless individual
fathers and mothers know about it
and want it It is complete in foreign
countries chiefly because standing armies make it Imperative that every
possible soldier should be located at
birth. ., Women Club Respond.
"Women's Clubs throughout the country very generously responded to the joint suggestion of the Bureau of the Census and the Children's Bureau that they undertake Birth Registration Test to learn how complete births are recorded in varying localities. . .The
finest, and for American the most rel
evant, example in the world of a low infant death rate is that of New Zea
land. This country has for years en
joyed the lowest infant death rate on record. For the last eight years a
volunteer organization entitled the So
ciety for the Health of Women and Children has co-operated with the Government in constant and successful efforts to drive the Infant death rata still lower. The conditions of New Zealand are so analogous to those presented by many of our own States that its work for Infant welfare has
been made the subject of a pamphlet by the Children's Bureau. While the wide understanding of those who are responsible for creating the Children's Bureau gave it a charter as broad as childhood Itself, it must be remembered that the movement was largely
urged by those who had been specially
touched by the injustice of allowing some children to work while happier
children are at school or at play. Ana
the law especially directs studies of
the employment of children. It also directs studies of legislation affecting children and the first bit of work done by the Bureau in the industrial division has been a compilation and analysis of child labor laws and compulsory education laws, showing by tables and charts where ttfey dovetail, and where the child suffers by their failure to tit into each other. Report of Census. "The report of the last census on working' children gave a new turn to the attention of those interested in the problems of industry which affect the young of the land, for it pointed out that nearly a million and a half children are so occupied with agricul
tural pursuits, and their . schooling is so scattered and spasmodic, that they
can only be classed as working chil- t
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statesman cauia survive was ws noi born upon the farm and worked at the plough before be had learned his letters. Those were the days when
American soil still responded to the
of the use of eye and mind and muscle are not pre judical to his still grow
ing and tender frame. Thus we may
believe that as there are developing better standards of housing.' of city provision : for ' amusement and for health.' so there are destined to grow up new standards' for the human element In all industry in order that the strength of young workers may be conserved for a vigorous adult life. This attitude toward the labor of adolescent youth is one requiring painstaking: study upon which we have hardly, entered either in this country or abroad. But its importance is recognized in Europe and America alike. The Children's Bureau Is now under taking some preliminary studies in occupations by which it will carefully and accurately describe the physical exertions of various groups of muscles required in various kinds of labor.
It is hoped to develop a manual which may be a guide to examiners
granting employment certificates by which they can determine whether the proposed occupations are suitable- or not for the Individual child. Even this preliminary work is slow and difficult
and will require time for useful developments. . -
"In tae iong run is it not plain that
the purpose of the Children's Bureau
is to serve the -welfare of all; the
youth of the nation, to ascertain and to
popularize true and just standards for
the nurture and upbringing of its
children, and to aid in the slow task of
pushing upward the level of life." CHRISTAIN CHURCH MEMBERS OBSERVE HALLOWE'EN NIGHT
CENTER VILLE, Ind., Nov. 3. Members and friends of the Starr
class of the Christian Sunday School
were very pleasantly entertained to
a Halloween party at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer Jackson, Saturday
evening.
1 nose enjoying the affair .were
Misses Inez Ellason, Charlene Burgess, Bessie Townsend, Mary and Balpis Plnnick, Mamie, Beulah, Essie " and
Mildred Bower, Clara and Geneva Smith, Ethel Richard, Hazel Longinfelter, Mabel and Martha Gilmore, of Muncie, Leah Petro, Mabel Revelee,
and Mrs. India King.
- Messrs. Mark and Claiborn King, Clyde Driffel; Gaar Ellason. Paul Mat
thews, Robt. Morris, Gordon Revilee, Stanley Eikenberry, Park Foland and Will Bertram; Mr,, and Mrs. Earl Lux, dy of Cambridge City, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Brumfield and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Kimmel and daughter Katherine and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer .Tackoon an children.
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Spoils ... . , .
proof enough that : mothers are .-eager I t,ckle of the gbare aJ)d we ha4 notbe.
to go to endless pains in order to give
the best, possible care to their children, and that if they fair through ignorance or through poverty or through bad civic conditions the fault
"The infant mortality inquiry depends on our ability to learn the names and bizthdays of the babies whose welfare should be studied. It is humiliating that this is possible only in a comparatively small area of the , United States. A good system of vital statistics the orderly record of the births and deaths and marriages of our people seems so reasonable and fundamental : a piece of public business that it is disconcerting to find the neglect we have thus far accorded it. It is said that no other civilized nation in the world has quite so discreditable a record. "Those who urged, the creation of the Children's Bureau realized the val(je of vital statistics. They knew, for nstance, that birth registration is a real safeguard to the lives and rights )f children. , "Recognizing the Importance of birth registration the -General Feder
ation of Women's Clubs asked the Bureau to take up the subject and the
bulletin on birth registration was the
Bureau's first pamphlet. Public inter
est in the subject is growing . fast. In the three years since the pamphlet first appeared it has come through three editions, each one showing an
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the old need is a gentle and natural
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gun to hear abcut the law of dlmlni ishing returns. No greater change has
taken place in any department of life than that which has taken place in agriculture in the last century. 'jit is recognized now that the succ isful agriculture of the future is an
i Pupation requiring intelligence aaJ
11 as hard work. Further, it is recognized that the more intelligence is put into it the more can the hard work be minimized and the profit increased and schools of agriculture are beginning to spring up which give us some inkling of that newer sort of practical and cultured education that the next generation will develop for its boys and girls. A school inspector in one of the largest agricultural states commented on the boys who are kept at home to work on the land: There are over 15,000 boys on the farms of this state between the ages of 11 and 16 years who only see four months school each year. There are over 30,000 boys now in their 20's out of school forever who have never completed the fifth grade. Why? Because those boys instead of being 'given the scant seven months' schooling that the
law contemplates and that the district school board usually provides, they are taken to do the work of men oh the farms." Crops Are Mortgaged. "If this is to be said of many thousands of the sons of prosperous land owners, what is to be said of the sons of tenant farmers or Of those who work, mortgaging in advance every crop in order to secure the .food which maintains them while it is made. The question of child labor in this country, great as are its claims upon attention
through mill and factory and the evils
of crowded city industry, is a prooiem never to be settled until it is settled upon the land as well. . "Thus far the child labor laws have been largely prohibitory. There is an increasing effort to make them constructive by fitting together, the pro-, hibltlons of child labor with the compulsory school requirements and by providing mothers' pensions and school allowances so that the child may not be cheated of the value of his schooling because he is ill-fed and neglected at home. - - "Better still is a growing feeling that the States responsibility for the child is ' constant and must follow him wherever he goes. In the most highly developed schools this, is expressed by the most careful attention to the building and equipment of the school house . itself, by painstaking examinations on the part of doctors and then steady attention of school nurses and truant officers -to see that medical recommendations are faithfully carried out. The morning the child becomes 14. gets a certificate and leaves the school for industry, this costly solicitude ceases. In a few localities notably New York, Baltimore and Cincinnati, the boy . and. girl is given a physical examination as a preliminary to the granting of a certificate and in cases where physical unfitness is obvious it may be refused. "If the welfare of the citizens is the main concern' of the city then it it is necessary to follow the child occupied in industry instead of in school, and to know that in tha.Bhgp. aa.in, the.sqhool room the physical conditions of life,
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ua uunu in various organs, -tissues.
Joints. One becomes flabby, obese, nerv
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due largely to an ingredient derived front
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METHODISTS DEGItl ' REVIVAL SERVICES
GLEN KARN, Ohio, Nov. 3. Ollie Martin, of Maryland. Geo. Koons, of Palestine, and Allie Koons and family
spent the day Sunday -with Chas Koons and family. - ' -'
-,. .Farm Brings $8,000.. -Mrs. Maggie Peden, widow of the late Melvin Peden. has sold, her farm adjoining Glen Kara on the South, to Oscar McClure. The farm consists of
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vw acb mm ve vsu .w. w .... Grant Forrest and wife motored to Portland Sunday to visit relatives.... Elan MikeeeU, -wifa-and eon of near Middleboro were guest of Wm. Horn's Sunday. ...Protracted meeting has begun at the M. E. church. The Rev. Mr. Cole, of 8prtngfleld delivered the address Sunday morning. Rev. McCleary of Arcanum will come Wednesday to take .charge Frank Bowman and family and Miss Lois Lamb spent Sunday in Winchester with Carl Thompson and wife.... Earl Mitchell and wife entertained the following at dinner Sunday: Messrs. and Mesdames Russel Longfellow, of Lynn, Thos. W. Hough of Spartansburg. Luther Horn, Herschel Horn and Dan Cotter. Misses Sylvia Thomas of Arba, Francis Hough of Spartansburg, Gerald Horn, Hubert and John Hough.... Grant Moore and wife spent Sunday in Greenville.... Walter Peden and wife of Palestine were in town Sunday.... Mrs. Will
Harrison and the Misses Ltpp's of Un- j
ion city and W. H. Cbenowatn ana wife of New Paris visited W. A. Chenowe ths Sunday. .. .Charles Jonas, and wife were the Sunday guests of Joe Cisco and family. Little Roy Koons suffered a painful accident Sunday evening. While at play he had two of his front teeth pulled out with a string which he had In his mouth, '
ALFRED HADLEY SERIOUSLY ILL.
WOrd has been received here of the severe Illness of Alfred Hadley, who for years was a resident of Richmond and who is well-known throughout the county. Mr. Hadley left Richmond about eight years ago to make Ills home In Florida but at the; present time he and his wife are living with their son Clifton Hadley . in Tarrytown. N. Y. Mr. Hadley is the father of Mrs. Lee Klrkman of North Nineteenth street
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iKyE B I E
Dayton, Ohio. Merchants everywhere tell oar 800 salesmen that business is booming. Farmers have had two record crops, at big prices, with biff demand at home and abroad. Stocks of manufactured material are short, and labor is in ffreat demand. Exports largely , exceed imports. Factories are busy, many work" ing overtime. More freight cars are needed, and steamers are taxed to capacity. People are living better, and spending their money more freely. This country has the best money in the world, and more o f it than ever before. Such a combination of favorable circumstances never has occurred before, and probably will never occur again. Billions of dollars are passing over the merchants9 counters. The people who spend this money want the best service. They demand it in all kinds of stores, from the smallest to the largest. They get it in stores which use our up-to-date Cash Registers, which quicken service, stop mistakes, satisfy customers, and increase profits. Over a million merchants have proved our Cash Registers to be a business necessity.
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