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m fHEMYBOOK 500 SOf PEORIA ST.,' ' d398 TEL. MONROE 353 Chicago, Monday Nqvember; 13, 191 l.t - , yiCE.COMMISSiON RERPORT ON THE PROBLEM OF CHILD PROTECTION AND EDUCATION The Duty Society Opjes Where Children Are Sur rounded by Immoral Influences and Dangers Why Somes Children Areonr the: Streets Whaf Can -Be Doneto Protect These Little Ones? In the mad rush'for wealth-by some, and a strenuous struggle for a living by others, the duty society owes to itself of protecting the children has been neglected.- - . , Only in recent 'years has anything of note been accomplished in the way of legislation regulating chilti labor; and wevcan thank organized labor -for-tHat. ' " ' While it is-'still possible, it is-becoming more-difficult for men to grind-up the soulsand bodies of .little children to make dollars for themselves. Where the'hloo'd and brain .and muscle of babies'are 'still turned into the industrial hopper, to come 'out in . automobiles) -French' gowns .and $150hats at the other endf men can't get' away with-it: as easily as they, used to. ' But even'Jf -we could actually prohibit child labor, that alone, wouldn't save the children today. - 1 Industrial conditions will have to be so changed that fathers, and .mothers who are willing to work can earn enough money and have enough time to, properly care for their offspring. There may be a few inhuman parents whose greed would over come the natural parental instinct,' but the great majority of fathers aid mothers want ,to -make conditions in life better, so that' their children may have better opportunity than the parents Tia'd.v, It-is known that'it is the poor who have' the children, because the rich don't like to spare the time from social dissipation to have babies and to raise them. - This may -be a -wise dispensation of nature that families en- M mmmMmmmtrnmmtiMMmamMi