Show much good gray matter h has as been troubled over the n extent of child labor sad fate of children in the united un cited states under sixteen years of by BI ROBERT P GREEN new york age alle alleged 0 ed to be at work at gainful and often painful occupations in this country but the census figures do not substantiate these dismal statistics so sweet to lo the tongue of socialist orators and up lifters there are but instead of the vast majority of these are fourteen and fifteen icare old and should in fact be working the proportion in mines and factories and what may perhaps be sailed unsuitable work is given in the census figures for 1910 as 6 15 ander sixteen years of af age in ill mints mines which is less than three quarters of me ne per cent of all so employed moreover five eighths of the work vcr ground the persons under sixteen years employed in factories numbered by the census about 2 per cent of the total of persons so implored imp amplo loyed fed children of c ourse course should not be put to work at too tender an age ag oe due rut just why anyone should want to keep tile the children unemployed after oi of age il eis is very strange sti ganve c when will they learn toworu to work if not when they are young keeping them at school all day dav is very stile use ilse |