The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-29
VIII Be Held in Atlanta on
April 2, 8, 4 and 5, This
Year.
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Atlanta, Ga, March 2S.-The fourth
annual meeting of the Child Labor
Committee will be held in this city
April 2, 3, and 5.
The National Child Labor Commit
tee was organized four years ago
with the objects of promoting the vel
fare of society with respect to the
employment of children in gainful &C.
equations, investigating and reporting
the facts concerning child labor, rails
ing the standard OF parental respOn-
simlity and public opinion with re-
gard to the employment~of children,
and assisting in protecting children
against premature or otherwise in
furious employment by suitable legis-
lation and the enforcement OF law.
The active members of the committee
include some of the most distinguish
ed publicists philanthropists and So
cial and religious workers throughout
the nation, the state committees in
utilization with it comprise the same
sort of people, has succeeded in Sc
curing the passage of child labor laws
or needed amendments to existing
laws in thirty states.
The programme begins with a re-
ceptiOn TO the members of the COM
mittee and it's guests at the Piedmont
hotel, Thursday evening, April End.
The morning and afternoon sessions
will be held at the Piedmont Hotel
auditorium and the evening sessions
will be popular meetings at the
Grand opera hall.
The programme is as follows, and
the readers of this paper are cordial
'ly invited to attend the exercises:
THE PROGRAM.
General theme: Child labor and
social progress.
Thursday morning: Reports from
state committee. Symposium, What
is Good Child Labor Law" presid-
ing officer. Gen. Secretary o. r.
Lovejoy- Address. Uniformity of
State Laws" Senator A1gernon B.
Roberts, of Pennsylvania
Friday afternoon: Child Labor and
Education, Presiding Officer A. ]. Nc
KeIway. Child Labor and Practical
Education" O. r. Lovejoy. "Compul-
sorry Education the Solution of the
Child Labor Problem Lewis w. Par
ller, of South Carolina, Scholarships
for Working Children" Homer Folks,
New York City.
Friday Evening: Annual address
by DR.. Felix Adler, chairman of the
Child Labor Movement in the Idea
of American Civilization Child
Labor in New England" Everett w,
Lord. Sec, for the New England
states. 1.-THE Leadership of the
Child A. J. McKelway,. Sec for the
Southern states. Poem, The Child
and the MILL Don Marquis, editor of
Uncle Remus' Magazine
Saturday morning: Reports of
state and local committees. Essen
tials in Factory Inspection" a sympo-
SUM of factory inspectors of the va
rious states. Hon. John Morgan. of
Ohio, Miss Jean Gordon of Louisiana,
Hon. Chas Daughtery, of Oklahoma,
and others.
Saturday evening: Presiding Off
Ger, DIR. Felix Adler. General theme,
THE Child and the State 1.-THE
bor," Hon. Chas. P. Neil, u. S. COM
missioner of labor. 'eThe Consumers
Responsibility for Child Labor" Mrs
Florence Kelly. Social Cost of Ac-
cident, ignorance and Exhaustion, "
Prof. Chas. R. Henderson, of Chicago
University. 1.-The Scope of National
and State Regulation of Child Labor"
DR.. s. NJ Lindsay, of Columbia Uni
versity.
Sunday afternoon, General theme,
'sThe Ethical and Religious Aspects
of Child Labor. Presiding officer,
Chancellor Kirkland, of Vanderbilt
University. 1.-The Employers Respon-
sibility for Child Labor" Hon w. A.
Covington of Georgia. Child Labor
and Criminality," Judge n. B. Feagin.
of Alabama. 1.-THE Psychology of the
Child Rev. John W. Stagg, D. D., of
Birmingham, Ala. THE People and
the Protection of Children" Hon.
Holze Smith, governor of Georgia
The members are: Rev. Neal Il.
Anderson, Winston-Salem, North
Carolina; Hon. n. B. Feagin, Judge
of City Court, Birmingham, Ala; Hon.
J. b. CASTOR. member of Alabama
Child Labor Committee, Montgomery,
Ala; Hon. Clark Howell, editor of
Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta. Ga. :;
Chancellor James X. kirkland, Van
derbilt University. Nashville, Tenn. :;
Hon. Beverly B. MunfordS Richmond,
Va; Hon. Hole Smith, Ex-Sscretary
of the interior, Atlanta, Ga; Hon.
Benjamin E. Tfllman, United States
senator Trenton, S. c.; Rev. c.. B.
Wilmer, secretary of Georgia Child
labor Committee. Atlanta Ga