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...ISPENT very little time after that in Illinois for many months, but I heard from it often and most of the political news was disheartening to one who had been born and had lhed most of her life in Illinois and who wished it to be not only great, but good...

...Moving picture shows also had a place on the program...

...Lee had been chosen as its president...

...Later, when the Committee of Seven was formed for the purpose of organizing the seven thousand in Illinois who had not bowed the knee to Baal, and to clean up its politics, I was not surprised to find Mr...

...The need of humane education in all countries, and of the help of the church and school in developing and extending the work of animal protection was strongly urged by many speakers, the discussion being opened by Mr...

...George E. Lee and a little circle of earnest people whom they had gathered about them...

...The PeHnsylvania Railroad Company exhibited a model of its standard livestock car, approved by the Pennsylvania S. P. C. A., and provided with every known device for lessening the dangers and discomforts to which animals are liable in transportation...

...Here there were on view illustrations of methods employed by the societies in their work, and various devices and inventions for securing more humane conditions...

...THE WAY it happened was this: Seeing that I was somewhat dispirited, she said, "Come and stay where I am staying...

...While I was in this dejected condition, lacking even the shade of a juniper tree, along came Agnes Nestor, who was in Springfield at work for the eight-hour bill...

...and the more depressed, the more tired...

...It was during that memorable session of the Legislature which made a chapter of unsavory history for Illinois...

...She did for me what the Lord did for Elijah of old...

...The discussions in this field were rather more tinged with sentiment than those on the subject of child saving, but on the whole, the tone was sane and practical...

...Lee was hostess for the state convention held last week in Springfield and, as her house was headquarters two years ago for those who worked to secure the Ten-Hour Law, so it will be headquarters again next winter for those who are planning to work for the extension of the law until it includes not only those who work in factories but also the many other classes of women workers.—c...

...A topic of general interest taken up on the last day of the meeting was that of animal protection in connection with public health, special features of which were the need of slaughter house reform and of improved conditions in the care and transportation of livestock...

...of the headquarters of the Women's Trade Union League and of the good people that are to be found there...

...When one man, advocating the desirability of teaching children the universal kinship of all living things, declared that he would no sooner step on an an\ than on a baby, another speaker promptly pointed out that it would be difficult to bring people generally to this point of view as long as nature continues to produce such a profusion of household and garden pesti and noxious insects...

...and Mrs...

...Edward G. Fairholme, secretary of the English Royal S. P. C. the pioneer anti-cruelty society of the world...

...Home Economics is at heart Consumption, and must be so because the home woman is more and more purely a consumer...

...Consumption is the broadest of generalities, requiring the broadest of liberal educations.—William Hard in Everybody's...

...William O. Stillman, was successful in preventing a discussion from being precipitated by some of the ardent anti-vivisectionists present...

...Thomas D. Flynn of New Orleans added to this a plea for the more general recognition of child protection as a branch of social economics, and the establishment of training courses for probation officers and others engaged in the work of saving children...

...I found that "they" were Mr...

...Their possibilities for good were generally recognized by the speakers, but in view of the demoralizing effect of many of the pictures exhibited, it was recommended that censorships be established to eliminate pictures of this class...

...an organization whose influence, it was hoped, would extend further into the state...

...George E. Lee IWAS in Springfield, Illinois, about a year and a half ago...

...THE last half of the program of the Conference was devoted exclusively to animal protection...

...I grew very tired, and the more tired I became, the more depressed...

...and Mrs...

...The much controverted subject of vivisection was not given a place on the program, and the able and tactful president of the Conference, Mr...

...Because of her official position Mrs...

...I found that the house was the headquarters for those who were organizing a good government club for Springfield...

...The subjects discussed in these two Congresses overlapped to a certain extent, since one section of the Prison Congress was devoted to the consideration of the problem of preventing crime among children, and reforming young criminals, while the Humane Conference gave the first three days of its session to a similar subject, that of child conservation and protection...

...Everybody was busy and everybody rushing...

...I have told them about you and they are all admirers of Senator La Follette, and they want to meet you...

...I am not sure whether things were worse at Springfield at the time than I thought they were, or better, but of one thing I am certain, I got the impression of a great mass of people all very much more intent upon their own interests than upon preserving the good name of Illinois...

...and Mrs...

...Owen Lovejoy, general secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, calling especial attention to the need of looking beyond the individual child and the individual employer to the economic system of which the little toilers are the victims...

...Paul last September, opened a discussion on the moral education of children with a paper on "Protection of Children from the Standpoint of the Conservation of the National Resources," urging that the lessons of right and wrong, so essential to the moral development of the child should be taught in the public schools...

...Reports of progress were presented from societies in all parts of the world, organized along the same lines and for the same purposes as our own Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, more familiarly known as the S. P. C. A. One session was devoted to reports from Spain, Mexico, and other countries in which an active crusade against bull-fighting is being carried on...

...and Mrs...

...And if the flora of the vicinity had been favorable, I might have followed the example of Elijah of old who, when he saw hi s countrymen all rushing off after strange gods sat down under a juniper tree and sighed, "I, even I only, am left...

...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT The International Humane Conference By LUCY C. DANIELS THOMPSON FOLLOWING close upon the heels of the International Prison Congress, the International Humane Conference held its first American meeting in Washington, October 10-15...

...B. N. Baker, President of the National Conservation Congress held in St...

...But a very important part of the "they" was the circle of people with whom they were working, for in thir day and generation if people want to do anything of importance, they must inspire the confidence of others and breathe enthusiasm into them...

...Louis Post...

...They belong, I should say, to that class of people who usually think they have all they ought to attend to in supporting their families and providing for old age, and who feel justified in leaving reform and public work to those who have leisure and independent incomes...

...The value of the juvenile court and the probation system in the work of saving children, the reformatory methods employed in various countries, the progress of child legislation, are of as vital importance to those interested in the child from the point of view of its protection from cruelty and its individual betterment, as to those interested from the point of view of the protection of society from the evil results of badly cared-for childhood and the general social betterment...

...In addition to the subjects already noted, child labor was discussed in all its species, Mr...

...When the news was the worst, all I could do was to bring to mind the people of the state who, I was sure, were steadily working for better things, and the places from which good influences were going forth...

...L. H. * * * Infantile Paralysis is Communicable THE advisory board of the United States marine hospital service, whose members are among the most distinguished physicians, sanitarians, and bacteriologists of the country, came to the practically unanimous conclusion at a recent session in Washington, that infantile paralysis is a communicable disease and should be placed in the reportable class...

...Women of the Hour Mrs...

...The work of the humane societies both here and abroad in the field of child saving was illustrated by series of photographs and publications, showing not only the methods of these societies but also the great need of such work as they are doing...

...And always among the places and the people who came to mind were that humble little home on the outskirts of Springfield and Mr...

...I would think of Miss Addams and Hull House, and Miss MacDowell and the University Settlement...

...she showed me the seven thousand, not in Israel, but In Illinois, whose knees had not bowed to Baal...

...But this is not the attitude ef mind of the Lees or their friends...

...They are not poor as we usually reckon poverty, though they live very simply...

...and Mrs...

...Lee and the group of earnest friends...

...During the first day I stayed down-town and business took me back and forth between my hotel and the Capitol...

...Improved crates for the transportation of poultry were also shown, and models of street drinking fountains for horses and dogs...

...Of course I went,—some of us have formed the habit of doing what Agnes Nestor tells us to...

...And off she flew to a hearing, leaving me to wonder who "they" were and why I should inflict myself upon "them...

...Lee were living in a very modest little house...

...I found that it was also legislative headquarters for those who were from time to time going down from Chicago to work for the eight-hour bill...

...Exhibits of improved harness, horseshoes, feeding bags, veterinary ambulances, fire escapes for stables, all attested the interest taken in securing better treatment for horses...

...And when the Springfield branch of the Women's Trade Union League was started, I was not surprised to learn that Mrs...

...Many of the delegates, indeed, sent to represent their governments in the Prison Congress, remained in Washington as delegates to the Humane Conference, notably those from China and Japan, where the two lines of work,—humane endeavor and prison administration,—seem to be very closely linked...

...The house to which I was invited and where I found a welcome which I was glad to feel was given me for the sake of the good Chief, who was at that time in Washington, belonged to Mr...

...Important results are hoped for from the investigation, which the laboratory of this service is now engaged in making into the causes of, and method's of checking pellagra, infantile paralysis, tuberculosis, and typhoid...

...Lee on the committee...

...and of the office of The Public and of Mr...

...ANOVEL and instructive feature of the Conference was the exhibit occupying four rooms on the ground floor of the National Museum adjoining the beautiful new auditorium in which the meetings were held...

...There were also models of lethal chambers for destroying cats and dogs in the most humane way, and devices used in foreign slaughter houses, showing a marked contrast to our barbarous methods...