Show PUBLIC CONTROL OF PRIVATE FORESTS President of American Civic Fed Federation Federation Made Vigorous Plea For It It REGULATING CHILD LABOR Isac Isaac X N SInn Sint State 01 On time thc Subject Jait HJ Horace president of the Amen Ameri American can Civic federation made a pica pira for legislation to promote public con control control of cd forest forests be before before fore the conference on uniform state legislation today Using ever every da day three times as much as aR We grow and wasting as much as we use we can see ace the end or of orwood wood In the United States he tie de of the timber standing In tile the United States is privately owned and nfl al Is being cut destructively The remaining Is In government and Ir if I It were cut clean there would only bo left to lat last tim tho United States 10 years at the present rate or of con consumption Al All the power to preserve these forests rests wih tile the sovereign states I It Is for that reason that uniform legislation fol for public control of privately owned forests Is imperative CHILD LABOR Isaac N Seligman or of New York chairman of the finance committee or of the Ule national child labor committee made an urgent plea for uniform tate state la laws rs regulating child labor laborIn In part Ie he said The Tho Importance of uniform legisla ton Is obvious particularly whore where States are within the same name Industrial area there thore may be some ques queston question ton tion whether the m manufacturer who Is forbidden to employ under 14 years or of ago age Is placed thereby ot et a In competition with the tho across tile the state Ino who mar was employ or of 12 years ears he Is Ikel likely to ho he suffers suffer A system of uniform laws careful carefully ly h codIfied to so that there could be rio no a as to their provi dons anti and a as to the machinery or of en enforcement would remove a consider considerable considerable able percentage e or the difficulty now had b by employers offIcials and Interested ted citizens In to mater 1 1 We recommend the estAblishment ot of otH H 14 yosts s th hO minimum age limit for foral nil al employment Below that ago we contend that no child should be regarded as having any ec coo value Lt Let Ul us haten hasten to sa say however that We dont regard the mere fact of hay hav havIng haying Ing become 1 14 years or of ago a a sufficient warrant arrant for 01 removing protection from children In the standards we roe rec recommend they tile must also have attained a certain stage of physical ment roughly Indicted Indicated where morE more complete scientific tests are not avail available able by a height of 60 Inches and a wel weight ht of SO pounds pound They must further have hail had suf educatIonal opportunity to enable them to o answer reasonable tests of mental development equivalent to tIle the normal development acquired b by chi dren In tIme the first eight years of tIle the public school school We maintain ln that no child under 16 years ears of age ag should be employed In an any occupation at night or should hould be employed lon longer er than an da day or week weel SAVINGS DEPOSITORS Pierre Jay chairman of tile the dele delegation a aton ton tion of the National Association of Su Sn SupervIsors or of State Banks strongly ad advocated advocated the beter better protection ot of sa say sayings Ings depositors In state and other banks particularly In the west He saId that In 3 3 states stateR saving savings do po In Ill regular banks banIs were not protected an all more than were check checkIng In Ing depositors and that In man many In Instances instances stances they did not have that much protection Oum OUI association believes savings depositors he said who put their mone for safekeeping and Investment In state banks and trust companies are arc entitled first to have It kept separate and distinct from the money or of tIle the merchant and manufacturer who sito puts his funds In those thoe banks for an en entirely different purpose and second to have It invested not In the usual corn com comI I loans but In such mortgages and hond I as are considered the safest I and best In the state slate In which time the hank bank hankI Is situated I |