WHO OWNS LA FOLLETTE'S?
Who Owns LaFollette's? CERTAIN newspapers have printed, as news, the statement that La Follette's Weekly is now owned and published by the Wisconsin State Journal. This false and misleading story...
...asks a reader...
...Revision of the federal employees' compensation act...
...Effective legal safeguards for working women...
...Purtell says: "Mrs...
...It has happened on several occasions in the past year...
...It is printed in colors and in it are gathered, discriminatively, pictures and stories which will fascinate the little people and help the mothers to provide amusement for them...
...Can the Babies Be Saved...
...Eleven Roosevelt electors and two Wilson electors were chosen...
...O'Leary's cow is about the only critter that has moved from Chicago onto the farm, and she is up to her old tricks, kicking over the lantern, which, of course, could have been safely hung up.'' * * * MOST ATTRACTIVE, unique and artistic is John Martin's Book, a new monthly magazine for little folks...
...A Legislative Program for Labor IN A RECENT announcement, The American Association for Labor Legislation outlines what it calls its "immediate legislative program...
...At any rate it is supremely important that we find out why it is that one baby out of every eight dies before it is a year old...
...It seeks to discover the favorable conditions concerning children who survive and it is believed that its whole purpose is such as to enlist the good will of the mothers of the country who will welcome an opportunity to cooperate with the government in trying to save infants' lives...
...Of these at least 150,000 could be saved...
...It will be seen that this is an absolutely democratic inquiry, involving as it does visits to every mother of a baby bora within a given period of time...
...The official count gives the following total vote for presidential candidates: Roosevelt, 283,610...
...WHAT WAS the final vote for president in California...
...The death rate for the total population is slowly but surely declining, that is, adults are living longer lives, but the death rate for babies less than one year old is not declining and, in the words of Sir George New;-man, "This is the broad fact which constitutes the problem to be considered...
...Taft, 3,914...
...We give space to this matter, incidentally to record another case of "faking" the news, but chiefly to reassure any readers of La Follette's who may have taken seriously the false statements...
...There is no reporter in Madison who could not in a minute's time have obtained the facts...
...Why not make the year 1913 set a new mark in this nation for justice to the workers...
...Brotherhood A Lincoln Anniversary Editorial THE LINCOLN editorial on the cover page, written by Richard Lloyd Jones, is an appreciation of the Great Emancipator's service to humanity that has its message and its inspiration to all of us in these stirring times of social readjustments...
...It will be the first intensive house-to-house inquiry conducted by the United States government that is based upon birth records rather than upon death records...
...IN A RECENT BULLETIN on "Fire Loss on the farm," T. M. Purtell, Wisconsin's State Fire Marshal, says that lightning heads the list of causes of needless and preventable farm fires...
...If it is found that untoward conditions of living are responsible for the unnecessarily high death rate among infants, then we may know where to strike to make conditions better...
...and he secured the replica of the famous Weinman statue for the campus of the University of Wisconsin, than which, he believes, there is no fitter place in the nation for the figure of Lincoln to stand...
...It is the universal brotherhood of man...
...Why do babies perish in such numbers ? The Children's Bureau, under the direction of Miss Julia Lathrop has set out to find the answer to this question...
...He would permit no paper bearing his name to be owned or controlled by any one else...
...In residences the cause is chiefly defective flues and stove pipes...
...What purpose was behind the writing of this untrue statement we are willing to leave to conjecture...
...TO TRAIN UP a child in the way he should grow is so to control the circumstances of his life, that he shall grow as straight as possible, as much as possible, in as many directions as possible, and as harmoniously as possible...
...He was active in preserving to the nation Lincoln's birthplace at Hodgenville, Kentucky...
...State workmen's compensation legislation...
...survives that long...
...Yet the story was sent out—and printed—that (to quote from one newspaper) "La Follette's Magazine, which has been published on Main Street, was moved to the plant of the Wisconsin State Journal, WHICH BECAME THE OWNER OF THE MAGAZINE SOME TIME AGO...
...Protection from lead poisoning...
...This false and misleading story appears, in the cases that have come to our attention, as a Madison dispatch...
...Jones has caught and translated, effectively, the essence of the Lincoln spirit which will, finally, permeate all our institutions...
...Investigation into industrial hygiene and safety...
...There arc a few commonwealths that have an advanced and really effective body of labor laws, but they are few and far between...
...Factory inspection and labor law enforcement...
...The value of the field-work done by the agents must necessarily depend upon the cordial cooperation given them by all mothers in the communities which they study...
...Wilson, 283,-436...
...The inquiry will have some new features...
...La Follettb's is neither owned nor published by the State Journal...
...La Follette's is printed by the Journal Company under contract with The Robert M. La Follette Company...
...Jones has been a life-long student of Lincoln—his philosophy, his character, his work...
...Debs, 79,201...
...In '' The Brother to Men," Mr...
...Statisticians in Europe and America have recently called attention to the astounding loss of infant life and to the importance of making careful inquiries into its causes...
...The Bureau has already received most cordial assurances of sympathy and cooperation from mothers and health authorities in various parts of the country...
...This program calls for eight reforms, as follows: One day of rest in seven...
...The editor must surely be grown up, but he evidently possesses a heart which still retains the radiance of childhood...
...If bad milk and adulterated foods are in any degree responsible, then the state may know where to extend the strong arm of the law...
...Commenting on fires in barns, Mr...
...of the stock in The Robert M. La Follette Company...
...Its method will be to secure a list of all the children born within a given year in the communities under consideration and to trace each child through its first year of life, if it...
...At the beginning of the year, a field inquiry was begun, covering the subject first mentioned in the law creating the Bureau, namely, infant mortality, or the deaths of babies under one year of age...
...Here is an inquiry that should meet with the hearty cooperation of all right-minded citizens...
...The method of this inquiry will necessarily be that of visits to parents by the women experts of the Bureau...
...Chafin, 23,366...
...JAMES WARD...
...Uniform reporting of accidents and diseases...
...Senator La Follette owns, edits and publishes this weekly, holding 95 per cent...
...There is no editor, anywhere, who could not have exercised his responsibility easily in getting at the truth by reading the editorial announcement in La Follette's for January 4, when the change in form was made...
...This is a program that should find its way into the laws of all the states...
...Seldom has a government investigation been undertaken that comes so close to the home...
...While Congress is engaged in shaping laws to protect working women within its jurisdiction, and providing adequate compensa-tion legislation, let the states that are still in the rear of the procession move forward...
...At first smaller towns outside the large urban areas will be chosen, so that each city can be a complete study in itself, comparable with later studies and furnishing types of varying social and industrial conditions...
...ABOUT 300,000 babies die every year in the United States...
...The schedule has been very carefully prepared to cover the questions of housing, feeding, and care of the child, the milk supply, industrial and economic condition of the parents, sanitary conditions of the neighborhood, and other phases of the hygienic surroundings of the child...
Vol. 5 • February 1913 • No. 6
