Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-06-27 | Page 3 | Child Labor in Rural Districts

CHILD LABOR IN RURAL DISTRICTS MILWAUKEE June 7 Reports Reports of at I recent rural investigations by the national national national na na- child labor committee will be presented by br members of the staff at atthe atthe atthe the sixteenth national conference on child labor to be held here June 24 in conjunction with the national conference conference conference con con- ference on social work The general topic of the meeting will be FairPlay l Fair FairPlay Play for the Country Child The principal speakers will be Dr Felix Adler founder and senior leader lead lead- er of the Society for Ethical Culture of New York and find professor at Columbia Columbia Columbia Co Co- lumbia university Professor E. E C C. C Lindeman of at North Carolina college field secretary of the American Country Country Country Coun Coun- try Life association Charles E. E Gibbons Gibbons Gibbons Gib Gib- bons and Sara A. A Brown Drown both of the field staff of tho the national child labor committee Owen R R. R Lovejoy secretary of at the national child labor committee will preside Conditions of child employment in certain highly Industrialized forms of agriculture such as beet raising and onion culture will be described The right of country children generally to toa toa toa a good school and to plenty plent of whole- whole borne bome play ploy and recreation will be emphasized em em- The conspicuous feature of rural child labor says the com eom- comI committee I mitlee Is Its Interference with school attendance The average school term In the United States is da days s I while the city term is days Of every hundred children enrolled In InI city schools the dally daily attendance is eighty I while of every hundred en enrolled enrolled enrolled en- en I rolled in rural I schools only sixty sixty- I eight Ight are aro in rHea attendance ance f V 1