The Glenwood post., 1908-04-04
Important Meeting Being held
to Discuss This Great
National Question
LARGE CROWD PRESENT

Atlanta, Ga, Apr. 2.-Several
hundred men and women, incluu
ing religious workers, educators.
phllanthropists and others OF
wide prominence. assembled in
Atlanta today to discuss the ques-
tion of securing adequate protec-
ton for the hundreds of thou
sands of toiling children through
out the United States. The occa-
sion is the fourth annual meeting
of the National Child Labor com
mittee, an organization which has
already accomplished much in the
direction of solving the problem
of child labor in factories, mines
and other industries.
There is perhaps no body in
the United States more widely
representative than the National
Child Labor committee. Among
its noted members are President
Roosevelt, Secretary Taft, Cardi-
nal Gibbons, ex-President Cleve-
land, Senator Tillman, Miss Jane
Addams, Governor Hoke Smith
of Georgia, President Eliot of
Harvard university, Felix Adler,
and Clifford Pinchot.
:. The objects of the committee
Jas outlined in the call for the
present gathering are to assist in
protecting children by suitable
legislation against premature or
otherwise injurious employment.
and thus to aid in securing for
them an opportunity for elemen-
tary education and physical de
velopment sufficient for the de-
mands of citizenship and the re,
quirements of industrial efficien-
cy.
The initial session to day was
held in the auditorium of the
Piedmont hotel. After the pre-
liminary business of organiza-
tion had been disposed of the
committee listened to addresses
by Senator Roberts of Pennsylva-
MIA and General Secretary O. r
Lovejoy. Senator Roberts dis,
cnssed the question. "What Is
Good Child Labor Law9" and
Secretary Lovejoy took as his
subject, "Uniformity of State
laws" Ex-President Cleveland
and Secretary Taft sent letters
expressing their sympathy with
the work of the committee and
regretting their inability to at
tend the conference in person.
During the remaining two days
of the conference the followin.
interesting program Of papers
Snd addresses will be carried out:
." Friday afternoon: "Child La
bor and Education" Presiding
Officer A. j. McKelway: "Child
Labor and Practical Education"
O. R. Lovejoy; Compulsory Ed
ucation the Solution of the Child
Labor Problem" Lewis w. Par
ker of South Carolina "Scholar
ships for Working Children"
Homer Folk, New York City.
Friday evening: "Annual ad
dress by DIR. Felix Adler, chair
man of the committee; "The Ba
sis of the Anti-Child Labor Move
ment "Child Labor in New
England. Everett w. Lord. sec
retary of the New England
states; "The Leadership of the
Child" A. J. McKelway. secre
tary of the southern states; "The
Child and the MILL" Don Mar
quis of Atlanta.
Saturday morning: Reports Of
state and local committees; "Es-
sentials in Factory Inspection" a
symposium of factory inspectors
of the various states. Hon. John
Morgan of Ohio, Miss Jean Cor.
don of Louisiana, Charles Daugh
erty of Oklahoma and others.
Saturday evening: Presiding
officer, DIR. Felix Adler. General
theme. "The Child and the
State" "The Federal Investiga.
ton Of Child Labor" Hon. Chas.
= Neill. United States commits
Moner of labor; "The Consum-
A.. Resnons;hiltv for Child In