The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-06-15
GEORGIA DAY MADE
FAIRS REAL Opening
PRESIDENTS SECOND VISIT TO
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION is
NOTABLE.
Opens Georgia BuIdine-Comments
on Child Labor in Southern Mills
and Urges Compensation for In.
jured Employees.


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 Roosevelts 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 tho
opening of Bulloch hail. replica of
the early home of President Roose-
velt's mother, at Roswell Ga. erect.
ed as the Georgia state building. was
the feature that drew the president
to the exposition for a second visit.
Busy Day at the Fair.
From the time the president and
Mrs. Roosevelt and their distin.
guished guests We're landed at the
government pier at 1880 o'clock in
the morning until their departure ut
4:31 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 enthusiasts
tic welcome. He visited the Georgia
building, the New York building and
the negro exhibit.
Pride in knshjp to Georgia.
The president. in beginning his ad
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 a replica of his
grandfather's house at Roswell. Ga
where his mother passed her youth
After felicitating the south on its
grand material progress, MIR. Roose
welt continued:
I'm the south, as everywhere
through the union, we need to see q
good education given free to all chill
dren. no matter what may he theil
race OF color. Nor can we wisely per
nit this education to be of merel,
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 he agri
/ cultural and industrial colleges, and
above ALL schools in which there car
be elementary preparation for agri
culture and industry. These schools
for technical training will hold ;
great place in the future in fittint
our citizens for doing their economi,
duties in the hest possible shape
Strikes at ChiId-Labor Evil.
ut is a matter for congratulatior
that there is such a steady increase
of interest in the southern states il
everything pertaining to children
| This has already markedly shown 1t
self, and ! 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 a very
poor place indeed for child; indeed
personally think the factory poo
place for a woman-certainly for {
married woman, or for an unmarried
woman for more than very few
years.
AS regards children, It is as essen
tial to look after their physical al
their mental training We cannot af
ford to let children grow up ignorant
and If they are sent to school the,
cannot, while young, also work hare
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 Il
secure pecnniary compensation t.
workmen suffering from accidents ant
to their families He said:
"1t is neither just, expedient, no.
humane, it is revolving to indgmen
and sentiment alike, that the financial
burden of accidents occurring because
Of the necessary exigencies Of thei
daily occupation should be thrust upor
those sufferers who arc least able Il
hear 1t, and that such remedy as /.
theirs should only be obtained by liti
cation which now burdens our courts
The national government should be /,
model employer. It should demand
the highest quality Of service from it!
employees and should care for then
properly in return. Congress SHOULD
adopt legislation providing limited bu
definite compensation for accidents t.
all workmen within the scope of thu
federal power including employees II
navy yards and arsenals. Similar les
islation should follow throughout tn,
states
Saloons Close in Pittsburg, Kan.