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Show CHILD LABOR IMPORTANT. The national crusade for legislation to prohibit all employment employ-ment of child labor below 1 6 years and in some states 1 8 years, is a beautiful dream of all uplifters. Like all dreams, reality presents another side in the fact that 82 per cent of our children leave school and perform labor of one kind and another before finishing the eighth grade. How will legislation leg-islation affect them? What does this mean to hundreds of thosuands of families? What does it umean to the children themselves? For the families it means greater comforts. For the children it means habits of industry, learning the value of money, and less sports and loafing. What is the value of forming habits of industry, of earning money, of learning trades and occupations to children? No one can estimate. Can boy or girl be raised to substantial manhood and womanhood woman-hood without early in life learning with harhds and brain, learning the value of time, money and materials? Only by labor can we combat habits of idleness and money-spending which are being promulgated promul-gated in a thousand ways? Do you want to raise our child to be an idler, a parasite, a street-walking creature of leisure, or a real man or woman? How can you do it without labor? All this is involved in this crusade to prohibit all child labor as it is called. There are two sides to the question. |