Show much good gray matter 1 am has been troubled over the q extent of child labor sad fate of children in the united states under sixteen years of by ROBERT P GREEN new york age alleged to be at work at gainful and often painful occupations in this country but the census figures do not substantiate these dismal statistics so sweet to io the tongue of socialist orators and up lifters there are but instead of the vast majority of these are fourteen and fifteen f fears old and should in fact be working the proportion in mines and factories and what may perhaps be sailed unsuitable work is given in the he census f figures for 1910 as 8 3 under sixteen years df af age ace t in mil mines leei which is less than three quarters of me per cent of all so employed moreover five eighths of the work ver iver 0 ground round the persons under sixteen years employed in factories numbered by the census about 2 per cent of the total of persons so BO imp mp maloyed oyed loyed I 1 children of course should not lie be put to work at too tender an age dut ant just why anyone should want to keep the children unemployed oyce after fourteen years of age is very strange when will they learn to work if not when they are young kee keeping ping them at school all da day Y Is i is very ittle we use |