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Show VJJ Step by Step. To follow the course of any measure undertaken for the good of the children chil-dren Is to see how the sense of civic obligation deepens and widens, bo-1 bo-1 comes more intimate and personal, as i the child Is recognized by the state as a possession of value. The compulsory com-pulsory education law Is much to the point. The state said the child shall have education. That edict brought hungry children to school. Then the state had to begin to see to it that the child, made to come to school, was i in fit physical condition to learn. I Forthwith opened out a far-roachlng state paternalism that must follow the child from tho school back to the home, and eventually concern itself with miking the home a proper one. Visiting nurse, school doctor, and ' school lunch are tho natural sequellao of the compulsory educational law, and even more nearly, It would seem, we ' approach the plan of reimbursing the needy family for the child loaned to the state during the educational po-rlod. |