Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-27
child.
Importance of Good Employees.

cially to all who have any control what
soever in any institution. in any society.
| and that is, that they should take the
| utmost possible care to have employe
who is not of the best possible character
| in any position which will bring that en-
| ploye in contact in any way with the
| children of the institution. 1t is an evil
| thing to have a bad public servant IN
any capacity 1t is not merely an evil
| but a criminal thing to permit any en-
| ploye. public or private. In an institution
where children are peculiarly liable TO
temptation. peculiarly liable to have their
principles perverted unless that employe
Is of character concerning which we are
absolutely certain.
There should be affirmative knowledge
| of the good character of every individual
employed in any capacity around an in
stitution where these children are being
educated to be the citizens of the future.
Il earnestly hope that the managers.
| the directors of all institutions and So
| cietes throughout the United States will
carefully study the recommendations of
| this body of experts. L hope that THIS
study will be given alike by the men in
public and. the men in private life; that |
! legislatures, public officials, philanthro- |
pists will try to apply these principles in |
| their philanthropic work for children.
| hope they will apply not only what is |
good. but what is wise in what you have |
| recommended. If there is any one quality. |
| if there is any one failing against which |
| it is necessary that phllanthropist
should always be on his or her guard. 1t |
| is the failing of permitting the avoidance |
| of hardness of heart to cary him or her |
into the cultivation of softness of head. |
| 1t is just as necessary to be wise it |
| is to have good intentions.
Will Do His Best.
| Il shall send special message to
! Congress recommending the establish
ment of a federal children's bureau and
| recommending law for the Dis |
| trict of Columbia. and the federal terri
tories which shall apply the principles
and methods that you advocate in
practical fashion 1 want to explain |
that when 1 have sent such a message
| to Congress 1t does not do any good !
| to write and ask me why it is not
passed Excellent people will now and
| then get me to recommend something |
and then write me in great indignation |
| to inquire why | have not made it d |
law. l will fsend the message to Con |
gress. and then you do your best to get
! il made into law. j will do all l can TO !
! help it. but | have got to have your help
TO that end
| 81 am sincerely glad to have had the
| chance of greeting you tonight. ! thank |
| YOU for the great work you have done |
| and ! will do all that in me lies to see
that that work. regards the federal |
| capital and the federal government. bears
| immediate fruit.
| Plea for Federal Bureau.
| The first speaker last night was Miss
| Lillian ID. Valid, member of the ma
| tional child labor committee. Speaking
on the general subject of a federal chill
dren'S bureau, she declared thai it is alb
| solutely Impossible to get at the facts
| surrounding the condition of orphan chill
| dren without a central bureau controlled
| by the government. Rev Francis H.
| Gaysk. member of the state board of
| charities of Indiana, spoke on the sub
iect al Sn nd q
! the delegates on the harmonious ending
| of the sessions Controller Metz of New
! York city told the audience that one
| third of the 10000 orphans of the country
We're cared for by the city of New York
He spoke in favor of federal laws provid-
/ ing for widow and orphan funds. say
| ing that if the states should have the
| matter left to them there would be abso
! lutely no uniformity.
THE New England manufacturer can
| not compete with the south because the
south has child labor and fourteen-hour
| labor. State action cannot do any good
| in case like that; it needs federal legts- |
| lation.
! Mornay Williams, president of the Chill |
! dren's Village of Dobbs Ferry. n. Y. |
warned his hearers that the downfall of
! all charitable work would come as soon
| as commercialism "cloaked its sins be-
| hind the mantle of philanthropy.
| This is an age he said, when the |
dream of false commerciaism is dying |
| and the dream of new civic righteous |
ness is coming to birth. DO not let the |
methods of the so-called trusts enter into |
| your work. for If you do you will see the |
death of all true work for children.
Saved From Unseen Perils.
Judge Ben b. Lindsey of the juvenile |
court, Denver, Col. delighted the audi |
| ence with a speech replete with incl |
dents gathered from his experience in
| Juvenile work He said in part.
han fv1 hG
| problem of the dependent child unless |
we consider its relation to the great |
| industrial, social and political -ques- |
| tons which concern us as nation |
| The child is the state and the state is |
| the child, and in a fair discussion of |
the problems of the child you cam Ut |
escape the problems of democracy. We |
are not here to felicitate ourselves upon |
what we have done, but rather to de- |
termine what we ought to do. and |
through unceasing, relentless effort to
see that it is done. Perhaps no form Of |
heroism so appeals to the sentiment or
the imagination Is the rescue of a little |
child when its peril is imminent. The |
child endangered by the onrushing
train, the burning school building: will |
strike the spark of heroism and divln-
tens of thousands of children every |
year in this nation beset by perils not |
less imminent because they are less APP |
parent. These perils are many, and |
my purpose to attempt to classify or |
discuss them in any relative i'm por- |
| lance
| Judge Julian w Mack formerly Judge
| OF the juvenile court of Chicago said that !
| the real work of the child-caring organi- |
cations is to prevent children from be-
coming dependent whenever possible He
said that one of the big things to be done |
was to bring about state of affairs when !
! Industrial slavery would be a thing of the |
| past. He also advocated that out of each |
| wOrkman's wages a percentage should be |
! taken to provide for a pension fund.
Secretary Garfield of the Department of
| the Interior was to have spoken, but he |
| was unavoidably absent.
The Dinner Committee.
The dinner arranged by a commit |
| tee consisting of George S. Wilson. chair
man: John 3. Sleman treasurer: Ernest
! p. Bicknell. Commissioner Macfarland |
| Charles +. Nell, James F., West. Owen
| r. Loveioy, n. b. Feagin. A. J. Nc
! Kelway. julius Rosenwald. Robert w
! Bingham, George w Wider, Jacob NJ.
Moses. Charles P. Putnam, John B. Mont
gomery and Charles D. Hiles.
| The reception committee was composed
Brown P. J. Brennan. William Knowles
Cooper, William F. Downey. John JOY
Edison. Thomas X. Gallaher. Edward J.
Hannah. Rev Joseph |. Himmel DR.
George Nj. Kober.. b. Pickman Mann, Mrs
| II. b. r. Macfarland George w. Need
ham. Mrs Ellen Spencer Mussey. Rev DR..