The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-06-14
GEORGIA DAY made
fairs REAL Opening
PRESIDENTS SECOND VISIT TO
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION is
NOTABLE.
Opens Georgia BuiIding-Comments
on Child Labor in Southern Mills
and Urges Compensation for In
jured Employees.


Norfolk, Va, June 1.-THE James
town exposition management has de-
termined to look upon Monday, the
occasion of President Roosevelt's Sec
ond visit, as the real opening. The
president lost no opportunity to voice
his approval of the showing made
since the backward opening of the
exposition on April &c.
Monday was Georgia day, and the
opening of Bulloch hall, a replica of
the early home of President Roose-
velt's mother, at Roswell Ca, erect
ed as the Georgia state building, was
the feature that drew the president
to the exposition for second visit.
Busy Day at the Fair.
From the time the president and
Mrs. Roosevelt and their distin-
guished guests were landed at the
government pier at 1875 o'clock in
the morning, until their departure at
ABB o'clock in the afternoon every
minute was occupied. The president
spoke in the Georgia ceremonies
from the reviewing stand and in the
afternoon addressed the convention of
the National Editorial association in
the exposition auditorium. On both
occasions he was given an enthusiast
tic welcome. He visited the Georgia
building, the New York building and
the negro exhibit.
Pride in knsFiip to Georgia.
The president, in beginning his adj
dress, expressed pride in his relation
ship to some of the founders of the
colony of Georgia and qualification at
the fact that the exposition build
ing of the state is replica of his
grandfather's house at Roswell, Ga,
where his mother passed her youth.
After felicitating the south on it's
grand material progress, Mr.. Rocse-
welt continued:
In the south, as everywhere
through the union, we need to see a
good education given free to all chill
dren, no matter what may be their
race or color. Nor can we wisely per-
NIT this education to be of a merely
literary type. More and more we
are growing to realize that there must
be an education of the hand as we'll as
of the head. There must be agri-
cultural and industrial colleges, and,
above all, schools in which there can
be elementary preparation for agri-
culture and industry. These schools
for technical training will hold
great place in the future in fitting
our citizens for doing their economic
duties in the best possible shape.
Strikes at ChiId-Labor Evil.
1T is a matter for congratulation
that there is such steady increase
of interest in the southern states in
everything pertaining to children.
This has already markedly shown it.
self, and l hope will still more mark
eddy show itself in the future. in war
ring against the evil of child labor
in factories The factory is very
poor place indeed for child; indeed,
personally / think the factory poor
place for woman-certainly for a
married woman, or for an unmarried
woman for more than very few
years.
LAS regards children, it is as essen
tial to look after their physical as
their mental training. We cannot af-
ford to let children grow up ignorant;
and if they are sent to school they
cannot, while young, also work hard
outside without detriment, physical,
mental and moral"
Asks Laws for Injured Workers.
In speaking on the labor problem
the president urged the need of addi-
tional state and national legislation to
secure pecuniary compensation to
workmen suffering from accidents and
to their families. He said:
ct is neither just, expedient, nor
humane, it is revolving to judgment
and sentiment alike, that the financial
burden of accidents occurring because
of the necessary exigencies of their
daily occupation should be thrust upon
those sufferers who are least able to
bear it, and that such remedy as is
theirs should only be obtained by liti-
CATION which now burdens our courts.
The national government should be a
model employer. 1t should demand
the highest quality of service from it's
employees and should care for them
properly in return. Congress should
adopt legislation providing limited but
definite compensation for accidents to
all workmen within the scope of the
federal power, including employees in
navy yards and arsenals. Similar leg
islation should follow throughout the