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Show NATIONAL AFFAIRS Child Labor in War Material Production Puts New Angle on Vital U. S. Problem Reviewed by CARTER FIELD (Released Talk about United States entering the war grons again in official circles . . . Long range consequences of 'lending" Britain war materials present difficult problems. by Weatern Newspaper Uolon.t Exigencies of war again bring the problem of child labor to the fore. Foreign nations, their "unessential" industries bled white of manpower, are looking the children as a large, un- tapped source of labor. While these nations are seek-- ; iBtll Syndicate WNU Service Ing to obtain more work from their children, a campaign is in WASHINGTON Talk about the in the United States to United States getting into the war progress child labor. This cam restrict soon is growing again in official cir reaches its climax each cles. There are many senators and paign administration leaders who are qui- - year in the national Child Labor etly predicting that we will be in day which will be observed this the war within six months. year on January 25. A 3 to ! ' is being circu- ; ' lated about extending credit ain. Lots of things are to Britbeing writ- ten and said which are true, but which do not affect Die main point. The main point is that Britain is going to get the credits, assuming she holds out, which is now the general assumption. The British propaganda for credits was a little premature, nearly everyone in Washington believes. But the mistake in propaganda will have very little effect in the developments later on. The administration is determined that no stone will be left unturned to keep the British from being beaten. Meanwhile, the premature publicity has stirred up a storm of discussion as to the "vast" quantities of British gold and American securities still in the Brit- j of child labor in this country are urging the ratification of the Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution which would em-- ! power congress to regulate the la-- : bor of persons under 18 years of age. It has already beer, ratified by 28 states, only eight short of the Ill, tilt 1 , Opponents majority required. First Child Labor day was observed in this country in 1906 the civilized world was approaching the end of a period of comparative security. The result of this lull in the cycle of blood and warfare was the growth of a more humane and two-thir-ds When the These youngsters shown above receive pittance wages for many hours of work. The young girl works on a machine in a textile mill, and the boy is shown collecting garments for a tailor. see boys and girls of 12 and 13 years running tractors and other mechanized farm units in this province." Italy .Mobilizes Youth. Last spring shortly before Italy became a belligerent the Italian cabinet approved a bill providing for civil mobilization in war time which would include children of both sexes of 13 years up. About the same time Rumania was reported to be drafting, from the National Youth Movement, 4,000,000 school children between the ages of 7 and 18 in an t, d If ff&vffl mm i vs Transients Require s. Expect Farm Income to Increase -- - I ,,Uf-;,..;r- f' two-thir- i i ' IXTIKSMtM all-tim- e f "nr Mil m ; J o WEEK a -" , lemuel .Corj.idtcd VET - c..,t f. eph ambassador Service.' C. Grew, to Japan, got his into a cave and on a tiger. No bv crawling hlf-n!so- n Bear Wrangler, -- Tiger-Tilte- r Was Diplomat Crew fb parton Features-W.- W YORK.-Jos- .f.-.t"- a 5 wonder he isn't afraid to W-- A' ta'.k back to Foreign Min Matsu- - ister i that "The Amer ican people are firmly determined in certain matters." About that tiger. Just out of Harvard, the young Bostonian headed :mH to tf.ll him for Singapore, to piece out his sheepskin with a tiger skin. He hunted big game for two years in southern Asia, engaging in a great deal of jungle milling before he found the open door in China the entrance to the tiger's cave which was his gateway to a distinguished diplomatic niMtj hi h r a j career. non-reside- nt A princess frock for that you'll want two waVsT.,. tV..s" day and everyday! 7" .most becoming line in fr for petite figures. "if 'adroit gathers at the S:ies reCl7 front panel to give a ;;.;,. rr ncss where roundness THIS :;; after she without an employment certificate. "The cause of this accident car. readily be traced to the fact that this girj was given no opportunity to learn' gradually the intricacies of the operation of such machinery. Had she received the proper instructions concerning it, the accident might not have happened." Migratory Problem. In the field of child labor our most serious problem today is that of mi gratory labor. Last year in New Jersey legislation was passed which seeks to better the conditions of children employed in industrial agriculture. For 35 years families have been brought into New Jersey from other states, notably Pennsylvania, to work in cranberry bogs and on truck farms. Miserable conditions, excessive work and low pay have been the rule. The new law raises the age at which children may leave school to work. It also makes ilchillegal the work of dren when the schools of the district in which they are living are in session or when the schools of the states in which they maintain local residence would require their at- A .' hours tendance. The effect of industrial migration the children of migrant famiupon ish pot. was described as detrimental lies, BRITAIN KEEPS U. S. STOCKS by Paul S. Taylor before the LaFol-lett- e There is a curious angle to this. i J.V- civil liberties committee. The British, who have always been "Incessant migration retards the rather expert in matters of intereducation of children. A few Amerinational exchange, are apparently can parents are beginning to comi i reluctant to sell their American plain that their children cannot write stock certificates. They are spending as good English as they. There is their gold hoard freely. Apparently "agricultural army." a growing consciousness that for Since 1938 the wages and hours act they will think that they are getting many of their kind the future poran inflation price $35 an ounce for has played a large part in regulat- tends not progress from generation their gold, and that by the time ing the employment of children un- to generations, but retrogression." der 16 and in regulating hours and they have to sell their American Members of the national child laShares inflation may have hit them, wages for older workers in interbor committee deplore the fact that so that they will get a higher price state commerce industries. But this 16 hp years is the minimum age at than if they sold now. act is only a beginning. It 4V t which children may leave school for Jesse Jones has perhaps encourfrom national work in Entirely excluded only 12 states. aged them a little. He offered some regulation are all children employed In defense of their position, they in industries which are intrastate. time back, when there was much Long hours of hard work are the Large numbers of boys and girls un- point out that "those who are now talk of their selling their American besecurities, to lend them huge sums lot of this young boy employed on der 16 are in personal service our children will in future years will they come our citizens. How of R. F. C. money if they would a turpentine plantation. in work at trades, laundries, hotels, meet the dicult problem ahead of use their securities as collateral. beauty parlors and filling stations. world attitude towards cerpositive serve as clerks or messen- us as a nation? How can they solve So far they have not resorted to tain age-ol- d Many problems. Among these the democratic and educational this, preferring to finance their problems child labor was beginning gers. Their hours are long and of the future?" needs by selling gold. to assume international proportions. their wages low. This fact is even challenge more serious than at first it appears, This has gradually percolated It was the beginning of a world throughout Washington and is caus- harmony on this and other allied since the fields in which children ing a good deal of concern about subjects which seemed for a time are today in greatest demand are those which do not come under fedthe whole question of our gold hoard about to stabilize the precarious eral law. Lots of people are pointing out that Medical Assistance of the world. Accidents occur more frequently the Germans have learned to get peace Child labor standards not have re minors than do among they among along without gold, and the British Youth's immature nerves will too when the war is over. In mained unaffected by the present aduits. Transients, variously estimated at world A crisis. brief newspaper are more easily susceptible to rou- 200,000 fact the charge is being made in to 1,000,000, are "on the road" from Toronto, mental and paragraph the Canada, strain tine, fatigue friendly arguments here that the which for the most part are unable to and in late states 1940, speed-upfrom appeared resulting British are planning that very polifrequent the necessities of life withprocure that not will be uncommon to "It The following report from an anal- cy, and that this is the explanation out assistance. The general welfare for their being anxious to sell us of the whole country is closely linked gold instead of American securities. to the health problem presented by this class of needy persons, accordLOAN' PRESENTS PROBLEMS ing to a bulletin recently published While the spectacular character of by the U. S. Public Health Service President Roosevelt's suggestion of These "on the road" people are LaSalle Map of Business Conditions. "lending" war materials to Britain, discriminated against in programs vrr as a means of circumventing the 7Tt of material aid and public medical Johnson and neutrality laws, overcare through the application of resishadowed everything else, the posdence and related requirements, sibilities of the situation after the Passed Assistant Surgeon Charles F. war, assuming Britain survives, are Blankenship and Fred Saner, Assoso interesting that one wonders who ciate Social Science Analyst, aufirst thought of this idea. thors of the study, state in this new Two factors that favor the British bulletin. tremendously, as against an outright The Public Health Service points loan of money, occur immediately L out that "migration is an outstandto anyone thinking through the plan 1 r ,. to its ultimate possibilities. ing characteristic of the United One involves the immediate situaStates." Economic improvement is tion following the day the war ends. the main incentive for migration. The other involves the later period. Since it is true that almost On the day that the war ends, of of the agencies giving mediA V for Unty. (Ml v cal care to transients restrict care r iv r course, the machinto either emergency or selected ery of this country will be going full tlAltl I'Nivntvry blast. cases, the difficulties facing the M TXS Now consider the next few weeks transient who required public medafter that. If the British had been Income of farmers throughout the country is expected to rise over ical care are matters of serious concern. borrowing money from the United five per cent this year. The shrinking foreign export market is still Illness Rate High. States, either from the U. S. governmore than replaced by an increasing domestic demand. The gain in inment or from individual investors, either interstate or "Transients, there would be no doubt whatever come, however, ivill be slightly offset by higher prices of production. intrastate, have considerably more that the British would have to pay illness than persons who By L. G. ELLIOTT been doing for several months. De- disabling some stupendous sum for war suphave resided in communities long fense expenditures are already dou(President, LaSalle Extension plies which actually they would not enough and under such conditions as ble the of University) amount six months ago, to have the status of want then. Obviously their own airresidents. InThe farmers of the country will and are scheduled to go much highplane factories, ordnance and munitrastate transients have even higher tion plants would be perfectly caprobably receive $500,000,000 larger er soon. While it lasts, this spenddisabling illness rates than have the pable of turning out more supplies income this year than they did in ing provides employment to a larger interstate group. than they could possibly want for 1940. During the next few months numoer or workers and thus in- "However, as illness strikes more creases their ability to buy. they will be marketing the remain peacetime. the result seems to be frequently, of der their last year's crop, which U. S. ABSORBS OUTPUT The gain in income from higher that further migration is delayed was larger than average. For most prices and But undoubtedly, also, the conbe and often the greater demand migrant settles down tracts they had with American mu- of these crops they will receive partly offset by higher costs may of pronitions workers would not permit prices which are above the level of duction during the coming year. In in some community and eventually becomes a resident. This tendency abrupt cancellation, leaving the a year ago. spite of this, however, the outlook may be responsible for the high rate benefit Farmers when manufacturers with a lot of unsalafor agriculture 1941 is favoraemploy of illness and disease found in cities ment and pay rolls in the cities are ble. Farmers during ble goods and inventories on hand and business men in But with Uncle Sam doing the buyhigh. Demand for their products is rural communities are very likely to among the local homeless, many of increased whenever the income of have the best year in more than a whom may well be former interstate no such ing, problem would be in transients disabled for migration industrial workers rises, as it has decade. The "loan volved. of supplies by chronic or recurring diseases." would naturally stop with the end Prospects for industry are also faData on medical care received by of the need of them. In fact, even and the output of factories vorable, transients reflect the results of the supplies on shipboard and in BritAuto Area Tool Shops is expected to be around 10 per limitations imposed on the ish depots on Armistice day could cent higher than the group. peak No class or Near Capacity Output production last be used to "repay" the "loan." type of nonresidents, Those indusyear. American manufacturers would DETROIT. The potential capacitries directly affected by war or- except special beneficiaries of the have to depend on the U. S. treasty of tool shops in the automotive ders and defense expenditures, such federal health services, receives as ury to take the "unborrowed" muarea for small tools needed as steel, machinery, aircraft, and much medical care as even the nitions off their hands. This phase for national defenseurgently poor is shipbuilding, will continue to make production in resident groups. Although most might work out all right, even for "pretty well exhausted," the greatest gains. Other lines of students of the according Uncle Sam, for if we are going to to Chester Cahn, secretary of the industry are moving forward under care received subject agree that ship everything possible in the way Automotive Tool and Die Manufacby many residents the stimulus of greater consumer is not of war supplies to Britain, then our turers' association. Mr. adequate for the maintenance Cahn said purchasing power. The outlook is own national defense needs at the 70 per cent of the tool and die shops that a balanced upward trend will of health, the report shows that end of the war could absorb quite in the automotive area were "workcontinue for both agriculture and in. transients receive even less care a little. than do residents. As a result illness ing on national defense orders. dustry. is more common among transients. British-owne- if r T rcr'5 en NEWS ' rX Pennysis, issued this year by the insylvania department of labor ar.d "A minor itself. for dustry, speaks girl employed ty a food products enmanufacturing concern, while had in tomatoes, assorting gaged her thumb crushed, necessitating amDutation at the first joint. Th;3 TerP.;d I lot of eyewash WHO'S 1 By WILSON ADLAR Lovely Frock fur School or lirties j j ' When the tiger story was pub-- ! lished, it caught the eye of Pres-- 1 ident Theodore Roosevelt, but it was a later bear story which really stirred his interest. Young Mr. Grew took three straight falls from an angry bear. Nat-- I urally, T. R. saw in that the makings cf a diplomat. Cables the next dav routed the bear- into a wrangler and tiger-tiite- r lifetime career in diplomacy, starting a post with the Egypat Cairo. tian consulate-genera- l He was nacpd stpaHilv nn tin through posts at Mexico City, Petro-graBerlin, Vienna, Copenhagen and Berne. He is rounding 60, 36 years in the diplomatic service, tall, His erect, weathered, graying. durable career typewriter has come along with him down the years, and on it he raps out his terse reports to the state department. Bear-wran- gling, diplomacy and this and that has left him with only one good ear, but it serves to register a bieeer ear ful than most diplomats get with two. Mrs. Grew is a granddaughter of Commodore Perrv., who nnpneri Japan to the western world or vice versa. Living with them at the embassy is their daughter, Mrs. Cecil Lyon, with her two children. d, VERNE MARSHALL was born and grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and for 26 years has been editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Scribe Stays Put, Hte likf s stay put, and Believes the V. S. thinks the U. Should Do Same S- - A- - ouSht to do the same. In New York, he becomes the organizer and director of the No Foreign War Committee, which puts him in the opposite corner to William Allen White, the other sage of newspapering, who heads the Committee to Defend America. Not that Mr. White wants war, but their ideas are so opposed that they already are pumping large-calibeditorials at each other. Mr. Marshall lost one war. For his courageous anti-gracampaign in Cedar Rapids, he was awarded the Pulitzer prize, on May 4, 1938. But while the cheers were still erhninr h Iowa Supreme court, the next day, knocked out his ' graft charges against 31 persons. He kept on slugging, however, and is highly esteemed in those parts as a hard-hittin- g mid-weste- rn er ft and the waist scoops in to beguiling tininess, above the piquant flare of the skirt. In velveteen or taffeta, with a white silk pique collar, design No. 12G9-will be the piettiest kind of party frock. 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