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Show tory laborers' children, for whose education edu-cation and welfare no single community commun-ity is responsible, and among whom illiteracy Is particularly high. Serious retardation has been found also among working children of farm owners. Of Interest In this connection is the American Amer-ican Farm Bureau federation's declaration, declara-tion, In the resolutions adopted at Chicago, November 14, 1919, that "with few exceptions in the past forty years the farmers' sole profit has come from unrestored fertility taken from the soil, and from long hours of work and unpaid labor of women and children these are legitimate factors in the cost of food production, and must be so recognized by colnmerclal Interests Inter-ests and by the general public." TO CO-OPERATE WITH CHILDREN'S BUREAU Women Will Assist in Carrying Out Program for Benefit of Mothers and Children. The Home and Community committee commit-tee of the American Farm Bureau federation fed-eration has developed definite plans for co-operating with the federal children's chil-dren's bureau of the Department of Labor. The committee plans to devote much of Its energy In assisting the department de-partment in carrying out Its program of benefit for mothers and children in rural communities, according to Mrs. Charles Schuttler, chairman of the committee. Mrs. Schuttler pointed out that through the farm bureau the work of the children's bureau could be made of practical value to the farm woman In I 1 plllllllllilllillllip Mrs. Charles Schuttler. the same manner as the farm bureau has brought home to the man on the farm the value of the Department of Agriculture. The children's bureau of the United States Department of Labor, summarizing summar-izing the work done by it in rural districts dis-tricts since Its establishment ten years ago, makes the following statement: "The bureau's studies, in addition to those concerned with maternity and infant care and child hygiene, have covered Juvenile courts, care of handicapped handi-capped and dependent children, illegitimacy, ille-gitimacy, mothers' pensions, and the work of children as related to school attendance ; they apply both to city and to country and with respect of these subjects rural as well as urban localities have been surveyed. The bureau has called attention to the fact that courts with special provision pro-vision for dealing with delinquent children were available in 1918 to only 15 per cent Of the rural population. In co-operation with the state child-welfare child-welfare commissions it Is- at present studying children's needs in North Dakota Da-kota and South Dakota, giving special attention to rural problems. Studies in Delaware concerned with "Children Deprived of Parental Care" and "Mental "Men-tal Defect In a Rural County" have shown the needs of country children suffering under these conditions. In Colorado, Wisconsin and Teias the work of children in sugar-beet and cotton cot-ton raising areas has been studied, special emphasis being placed on the school attendance and school progress of these children. Similar studies relative rela-tive to truck fanning are be'ng made In certain eastern states. A problem to which these studies are call-r.g attention Is that of the migra- |