Show I I Everything Should hould Be Regarded eg ed From r x i Viewpoint of Chil Childrens dr enss y are re reBy By MRS FRANK R R. LILLIE Chicago Chicago I 1 cannot hide the fad fact that the thc Crane Cran family is gett getting e Y ry r enormous sums of money from the labor of others without an anything 1 mt j commensurate returns to society for it There is no good act or generous deed decd of any member of the Orane family Crane family that at all will or should invalidate invalidate I date this conviction I have no dogma to impose upon society but I see that children are injured by modern indu industrial trial conditions which have molded the lives of us all aU In my opinion everything should be regarded from the point of view of our childrens children's welfare for upon upon them depends the entire future of the state stare If a thing is good for them it is good and if it is bad for them it is i i bad But sor society ty doesn't take this attitude Instead of looking at the world from the childs child's point of view view we e t take ke the point of view view of business Education Education Education Edu Edu- I cation politics industrial conditions housing housing in m all these matters busine busi- busi ne ness s comes first and our children come second It is is business which dictates and ancl after it has hafl made the rules we try we-try try as s well as we wc can to adapt the welfare of our children to them But the day will arrive arrive when if a method or project is is good for business but bad ad adfor for the children it will be pc rejected That is is one of the reasons why I J favor Javor the strike of the employees of the Crane company They want a short shorter r workday If th they y get it the father will be able to spend more time at home with his children The fathers father's influence upon his children is is just as important as that of the th mother If th the father lather is is prevented from spending a certain cerbin amount of time w with th his children there is something definite lacking in in their hoir rearing Senator Thomas of oJ Colorado Colorado It It may be possible to reach the goal of uniformity in m the conditions of labor but I question if that can be done otherwise than by m making the standard of the lowest and leveling down downto to it If this he be s so then theft strict uniformity in m world labor conditions can be bc attained only on-ly at the expense of the Am American rican wage earner r His superior superior supe superior supe- supe skill i int intelligence t productive capa capacity ity and opportunities can avail him but little |