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THE DAY BOOK II v 500 SO. PEORIA ST 398 TEL. MONROE 353 Vol. 1. No. 163 Chicago, Thursday, April 4, 1912 One Cent "WORKING BABIES" SPELL DEGENERACY AND RUINED LIVES, SAYS RABBI LEVI The following remarks of 'Rabbi Levi, of Temple Israel, are re spectfully called to the attention of Dean Walter Sumner, of the cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, who wishes to check the increase of physical and mental degeneracy by saying who shall and who shall not marry: j Boston, April 4. "Unless you men of the National Clothiers' Association, and you owners of department stores here today see to it that apti-child labor laws are passed and enforced, I tremble for the future of ''the nation. "The people o( the United States do not know what is hap pening to the children of the present generation. They would not dare to let it go on if they did know. "I have seen toddling-babies'scarcejy able to walk, forced to work and sweat all day long'to help their parents earn enough bread to exisr. " r "You manufacturers .and you department store owners, here today know the truth of -what I say. You know that there are babies of three years of age working in New York today. "To those who say they do not know; to those who say they do not believe it possible, I answer thafl can prove it. , "In one scattered canvass of-the factories and stores of New York, whtch took in only 558 working-children, here is what was found: , "FQur children of three years of age; 21 children of five years' of a"ge' 41 children of seven years of. age; 45 children' of nine years' of age, aVid 76 children who were,under ten years of age. "Such conditions cannot go pn. They spell'. degeneracy, and sickliness, and ruined lives, and whisky-sodden-men and prostituted 'Women. They spell the fall of the nation." These are not .-the words of what the capitalistic newspapers, love to call a "Socialist labor agitatoV." They are the words of Rabbi Levi, of Temple Israel, one of the most noted Jews in the United States. Rabbi Levi added to these words by saying that there was,, no limit for child labor m the states of New York and Mainef-that ..a&frvg- jukmmmmjmm2tjjmaf2