Show I i I Child Labor in in China i I I By CHESTER H. H ROWELL Shan Shanghai hal has turned ned down a move mo to to- limit child i labor The hopelessness of doing it in the rest of ot China may have been one ofle motive in n addition to toI I some others less Jess defensible Doubtless it is none of our business But do Americans realize that they are among the chief beneficiaries of this Chinese child labor I j The beautiful Chinese rugs for which America AmerIc Is j I the principal market are practically all made by I the labor of underpaid overworked and ch cheated children The same is true of ot Oriental rugs of ot I Turkish and Persian pattern at least so far faras as the they are are male maie in India I Whether adults also participate in Persia and Turkey the writer Is not able to say from p personal per pr- r- r observation but certainly even there much of the labor must be that of children This is not to say that we should cease buying these products I Probably that Would only make malee the situation worse But it is a reminder to AmerIca Amer Amer- ica ira that the price of ot one of our most prized luxuries is the e e. of children |