HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real Beat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gifts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L HUNT Mrs. Ellen H....
...Before moving there she worked a year collecting material and getting it into shape for use...
...She had a case of boxes for pamphlets that she bound before coming to Beloit...
...H. A. Elkourie, president of the Young Greeks' Progressive Society of the city went to the platform and presented Miss Jane Addams of Chicago with a loving cup in recognition of what she had done for the Greeks of this country...
...For many years a teacher, Miss Swan grew anxious to know the joys of an independent life, and decided to secure a home for herself and her two nephews...
...All articles rent for five cents and can be kept for two weeks...
...Inadequate as the statement is, however, they feel that it gives a better idea of the joyousness with which she lived and labored than anything they might write at this time...
...She has one hundred magazines on the subscription list which is still growing...
...Miss Addams who has received degrees from the greatest universities of the country and honors without measure was so touched by this tribute that she could make no reply...
...E. N. Clopper, Secretary for the Ohio Valley States reported the strengthening of the law in Indiana, which leaves Pennsylvania and West Virginia the only states employing boys under sixteen in glass factories...
...She sends two circulars with each order and her patrons give these to their friends and that is all the help she needs to increase her orders as fast as she can fill them...
...Friday was marked by the arrival of Colonel Roosevelt, who addressed a great meeting in the public park, and also spoke at the evening session on "The Conservation of Childhood...
...If a few parents sorely need the help of their children, the whole commonwealth needs the health of its children.—Meyer Bloomfield...
...Teachers, ministers and club women are the best patrons...
...She rented a small house and arranged her material on shelves in a chamber room...
...there was a short editorial about her and on the cover page was a picture of her as she appeared in cap and gown on October 5, when she received a doctor's degree from Smith College...
...She printed a few circulars and sent to the presidents of the federated clubs, the principals of schools and the librarians of all public libraries...
...In our issue of December 31, both pages of the Home and Education Department were given to Mrs...
...Richard's life and work...
...He reported however, that Governor Blease had vetoed an appropriation for factory inspection, which furnished an indication that there would be no adequate means of enforcing the new laws...
...A. J. McKelway of Washington, D. C, who is Secretary for the Southern States of the National Child Labor Committee reported that laws regulating night messenger service had been passed in Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina...
...Pour days later at Birmingham, Alabama, there occurred another dramatic incident...
...The average gain in height in the typical room was .53 inches...
...that a sixty-hour week had been adopted in North Carolina and that South Carolina had done away with the exception to its child labor law providing that children might work under twelve if it were necessary for them to support themselves or their parents, and had also passed a law prohibiting night work for children under sixteen...
...In explanation of the title of his paper, he said in closing: "If the employment of immature children tends to their bodily, mental and spiritual degeneracy, an industry so founded upon the basis of child labor as this one is can be indicted for child murder, for the slaughter of the innocents...
...Addresses were made by Dr...
...The first session was devoted chiefly to reports of progress...
...The Gleaner's Library By MAME B. GRIFFIN IN READING of the achievements of women of today, I call to mind the adventure of one brave woman, Miss Phoebe Swan, and how successfully it turned out...
...Florence Kelly...
...It was found that while the children in what is called the "typical" room had gained on an average of 2.39 pounds, those in the fresh-air room had gained 3.17 pounds...
...My school is never listless or apathetic, whatever else it may be...
...In 1908 she bought a large fourteen room house in order to accomodate her work which had grown very rapidly...
...What suffragists contend for is the right, seeing that they are governed, to have a voice in the forming of the government...
...And those who looked on knew that the preparation for this dramatic incident had been laid in broadmindedness and helpfulness and the sympathetic recognition of common interests and hopes and ideals in spite of differences of language and customs...
...To quote from the children, they are 'coming up in all their lessons' since they have been in the fresh air room...
...Through the combined efforts of the Women's Clubs, the Labor Unions, and the State Conference of Charities, Texas had gone beyond the hopes of the Child Labor Committee and adopted a strong law, making a fifteen year limit for child-dren in factories and a seventeen year limit for those employed in mines...
...She knows that these influences have been so powerful, so universal that most of the governmental failures have been caused by them...
...The great State of Alabama and its garden spot, Birmingham, have come to pay homage to the woman everyone loves...
...H. B. Favill of Chicago, Miss Jean M. Gordon of New Orleans, Miss Jane Addams and Mrs...
...What the children say it would take volumes to record for most of their literary efforts during the winter have had fresh air for their theme...
...The articles are classified and kept by subjects the same as books are in the libraries...
...It has taken hold of the new work in arithmetic, long and short division, with a rapidity and an assurance that have surprised me...
...Her story of how "Peter Pan" had been successfully staged in Chicago without the employment of children under sixteen indicates that the enforcement of child labor laws will not interfere with art...
...With one exception they express themselves as delighted with the experiment and they report appetites improved to an extent that is almost alarming considering the cost of living...
...Orders come from every state in the union, and also Mexico...
...The first year she started work in April but as the season for woman's clubs was over then, she did not have a great call...
...Miss Addams, who had missed the earlier meetings on account of a hearing before the Illinois legislature on the subject of the contemplated repeal of the child labor law as it applies to stage children, reported that the law was probably safe...
...Deep Haven, Minn...
...Woman's weakness as well as woman's strength will doubtless affect the future government of this country, as the present government is an exposition of man's strength—and weakness...
...But the activity of the theatrical interests marked by the efforts to have state laws repealed and by the formation of a society with the rather misleading name, "The National Protective Alliance for Stage Children," has forced the National Committee to take a strong stand on the question...
...We differed as to the wisdom of the order, but we all knew that the preparation for this dramatic event had been laid somewhere and by some one in greed, suspicion and the love of power...
...It is obvious that a government by the people must be imperfect in proportion as the people are themselves imperfect...
...This experiment has now been carried so far that some of its results may be expressed mathematically...
...Richards for help and inspiration received from her and their appreciation of the value of her public labors...
...The next year she sent circulars into all the states and since then the growth of the library has been as fast as she could care for the orders...
...At first many of Miss Swan's friends tried to turn aside her plans but she was obdurate and what was looked upon as an adventure is now one of the growing industries of Beloit, known as "The Library...
...Saturday evening was devoted to the subject of child labor on the stage...
...The fresh-air pupils lost 2.4 days on an average from sickness and the other pupils 4.79 days...
...Their measure of her life indicates their measure of the loss which has come through her death...
...It has been the policy of the National Child Labor Committee in the past to leave the matter of children on the stage to state and municipal regulation...
...Child Labor Conference THE SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON CHILD LABOR met in Birmingham, Alabama, March 9—12...
...The meetings were held in the Orpheum Theatre which was crowded to overflowing on the occasion of all public sessions...
...in the fresh-air room .71 inches...
...As a Man Sees It Editor, La Follette's Weekly Magazine: APROPOS OF and in answer to her recent anti-woman suffrage argument before the suffragists of New York, would like to ask if Miss Ida Tarbell is under the impression that hitherto in the largely masculine conduct of government, there have been no concessions to personal friendship, no nepotism, no government by disreputable powers behind the throne...
...Colonel Roosevelt disclaimed any knowledge of the technicalities of child labor legislation but made a strong appeal to the "common sense of the common man," asking those present if they would wish to have their own children working in factories...
...Counting the Gains from Fresh Air THERE appeared in our issue of December 10 an account of a fresh-air school in Washington, D. C, which was being conducted in an ordinary school-room without any special equipment except blankets and the necessary cups for serving milk or cocoa during the morning sessions...
...The program of the National Child Labor Conference was interrupted for a few moments and Dr...
...He said quaintly: "Miss Addams, in presenting this cup, I realize that America from the East to the West, from the North to the South, has in some way expressed her appreciation of your work...
...So that this argument is quite beside the question...
...The teacher says: A LITTLE GIRL WHO DOESN'T GET SICK ANY MORE "So far as I can judge, the gain in mental alertness, in accuracy, in interest, in energy, in initiative has been if anything, more marked than the physical gain...
...When the experiment had been in progress two and a half months the children in both rooms were again weighed and measured with most interesting and encouraging results...
...A. W. Burton...
...The first year Miss Swan rented a small house, confining the most of her work to one room...
...On the other hand one child who refused to go into the experiment at first later relented and joined the army of health seekers...
...When the experiment was begun in the middle of November the measurements and the weight of each child were taken and purposes of comparison those of the pupils in another class of the same grade conducted in an ordinary school room were also...
...If the article rented is an extraordinary one and very difficult to be found ten cents is charged instead of five...
...The library itself is made up of gleanings from periodicals and pamphlets, and material can be obtained upon any subject desired...
...There have been no desertions from the fresh-air room...
...Ellen H. Richards MRS...
...And if refusing to be reformed, holding on to the last gasp to its child labor system with its long hours and low wages and the defenseless condition of its workers, it is destroyed at last, on its dead smoke stacks which now proudly flaunt their business or industry against the sky, men will write: the obituary of the ancient Herods: 'They are dead that sought the young child's life to destroy it'" * * * What We Sow, We Reap ON THE SEVENTH of March we heard that twenty thousand soldiers, one-fourth of the United States army, had been ordered to the Mexican border...
...And among the citizens of the State of Alabama the sons of Aristotle, the offspring of Aristides, yea the branch of the heroes of Thermopylae have come in their humble appreciation to present you what they regard as a token of respect, that you may remember them and continue your good work...
...She now employs six helpers to assist her in classifying and arranging her material...
...At that time the editors felt that they were (expressing but feebly their own indebtedness to Mrs...
...ELLEN H. RICHARDS died in Boston on the evening of March 30, after a week's illness...
...She bought and begged all the old magazines she could get hold of, patronizing rummage sales and peering into old attics...
...As the people are cowardly, venial, dishonest, so must their government have the same defects...
...As Beloit was the largest place near her home town that contained a college she decided to locate there and start a reference loaning library...
...In a paper with the striking title, "The Herod among Industries," Dr.McKelway reviewed on Thursday evening the history of child labor in the cotton mills of the country, and its present status as shown in the report of the United States Bureau of Labor, recently reviewed in our columns...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 14
