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Show CHILD LABOR 15 THE SUBJECT OF I ADDRESS An exceptionally interesting program pro-gram was carried not last night in the Tinnl ward meeting house, under the direction of Elder Joseph Deis The musical numbers were furnished by William H Manning, tenor, and John Haynes basso. The former gang "A Urea 111 of Paradise," and "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" aud the latter. ' Am bored" and " sleep in the Deep." The accompaniments were played by Mrs. Julia a. Van Dyke and Jeanette Bons and Mrs Van Dyke also played the organ prelude pre-lude and sacra mental music. Nie speaker of the eveinnn was T. K-ir' 1'ardoe the BUbjecl of his ad-I ad-I dress being "The Child Labor Question Ques-tion " The forepart of bis discussion treated of the subject from a notion;.' nnd international standpoint, in this connection he predicted that the child labor question would be one of the most vital one? that will be brought to the attention of the world, and es pecially to America, when the European Euro-pean war is over. Speaking further. Mr. Pardoe quot-e, quot-e, statistics with regard to the em-ohe em-ohe ment of children between the aes of S and L6 V-'ars in the lure cities ol fhe eaBt. showing a truly appalling condition to exMst. Especially strong Lvidcncc of this was shown in a rc-! rc-! i ort from a child labor commission in ono or tne larger cities or the east, which cited the fact that out of pvei three thousand boys that were found at work only 02f of them were without with-out parents. The speaker also told of several personal experiences in New York City and Boston, where he had followed newsboys to their home and found their parents of a dissolute character and unwilling to work. In Utah, be said, the "street trade?' for minors were legalized and in Ogden Og-den alone, nearly :'.0u boys, between the ages of 8 to 15 years, were work-! work-! ing without chaperonage. Continuing, he said that the fact of their learning learn-ing to earn money was not the vital thing, b'ut that it gave them the op-; op-; porlunity to learn vice aud in this I connection he illustrated his point by relating several instances that proved it. which occurred in Ogden to his own knowledge. In conclusion, he endorsed the women's wom-en's clubs as doing much good work for the children, and said that if vice would be suppressed that the Important Import-ant thing was for the parents to become be-come more interested, not only m their own children, but in their neighbors' neigh-bors' children. There was a large congregation at the service and the speaker held their close interest throughout his talk. The benediction was pronounced by Myron B Richardson. Ir |