The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-04-14

Mary Calm, dead from starvation,
with an emaciated baby four months
old crying at her breast, was found
this morning at 513 Myrtle avenue
Brooklyn, by Policeman McCannon or
the Flushing Avenue Station Hud-
died together for warmth IN anotner
part of the room were the father,
James Calm, and three cnlldren,
ranging from two to eight years on
age The children gazed at the po-
ucemen much as ravenous animals
might have done. They were famasn-
cd and there was not a vestige OF
food in their comfortless home. =
New York Journal, January 2, lso].
In the United States 10000 children
are toiling out their lives in the tex
tile nils alone. They never see Tue
,av .hcss. on the night-shlft are
asleep when the sun pours us llie
and warmth over the World, white
those on the day-snift are at the ma
chimes before dawn and return 10
the,r miserable dens, called "homes'
after dark. Many receive no hloie
than ten cents a day. There are Va
HES who work for five and SIX cen
a dav. Those who work on the nlgnt
shift are often kept awake ny na'iii:7
cold wafer dashed in their faces
There are children six years OF ase
who have already to tnelr cfeu
! eleven months work on the nlsht
shift When they become sick ana
.ro unable to rise from their beds 10
90 to work, there are men emploseu
to 90 on horseback, from mousse W
house. and cajole and bully them mo
arising and going to work Zen per
Govt NJ mem contract active consump-
ION All are puny wrecks, dlstorteu'
stunted mind and body. Eloert nuo
hard says of the childlaborers OF tne
chi,d.laborers of the Southern cotcon
mills: ,;++,o
81 thought to lift one of the NIUE
+o;1ars to ascertain his welen''
straight away through his thlrty-h'e
Wounds Of skin and bone there ran d
tremor of fear, and he struggled LOT
ward tn tie a broken thread. at
trac+ed mis- attention by a touch anu
offered him a silver dime. ne looh-
ad at me dumbly from face tna'
might have belonged to man or SIX.
tv so furrowed, tightly drawn, anu
full of pain it was. He did not reacn
for the money-he did not know wnat
# was. There were dozens OIL SUN
children in this particular mill. y
nbvs,cian who was with me SAID thal
thew would all be dead probably IN
two wears, and their places hllea ny
others-there were plehS ii4oi
Pneumonia carries off most OF tnem'
Their systems are ripe for disease
and when it comes there is no re-
bound-ne response. Medicine simply
does not act-nature is whipped,
beaten. discouraged, and the cnllo
sinks into a stupor and dies.
So fafes modern man and the chlio
Of modern man in the United States,
most prosperous and enlightened OF
| all countries on earth. 1t must De
remembered that the instances gwen
are instances only, but that they can
he multiplied myriads of times. II
must also be remembered that what
Is true of the United States is true
Of all the civilized world. Such mis-
erv was not true of the cave-man l.
Then what has happened? Has the
hostile for his descendants Has the
cave-man,s natural efficiency OF
FOR food-getting and shelter-gettlns
| diminished in modern man 10 one
half or one-quarter?
On the contrary, the hostile enVir'
onment of the cave-man mas peeh ue
! c4roved. For modern man 1t no loii'
| ger exists. All carnivorous enemies
the daily menace of the younger
world have been killed off. Many OF
tho species of prey have become eA,
| tinct. Here and there, In secluueu
nortions of the world, still hnger a
few of mans fiercer enemies. ou'
thew are far from being a menace "
mankind. Modern man, when ne
wants recreation and change, goes
+o the secluded portions of the Worlo
for hunt, Also, in idle moments,
he walls regretfully at the passing OF
the big game" which he knows ID
the not distant future will disappear
from the earth.
Nor since the day of the caVe,man
has mans efficiency for food-geoone
and sherter-getting diminished. 1t mas
Increased a thousand fold. Since the
sdav OF the cave-man, matter has been
mastered. The secrets OF mater
have been discovered. It's laws nave
been formulated. Wonderful artinces
have been made, and marvellous IN
.yentions, all tending to increase ire
mendously mans natural efnciency
of in every food-getting, shelter
getting exertion, in farming, mining.
manufacturing, transportation ana
communications.
From the cave-man to the hand
workers of three generations ago, the
food and shelter getting has been very
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