The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-07
KANSAS COlAAENT
WISE KANSAS MOTHERS.

w 4soE KANSAS MOTHERS.
The fact that the laws of Kansas
pfohlolt the employment of boys I'M
DER 10 years of age is worrying many
Lnotners IN the state. who are won
Qerlng what to do with their boys
during the vacations. The result of
the worry is that Attorney General
John 3 Dawson and State Labor
Commissioner W. l. A. johnson are
receiving scores of letters from the
mothers, asking If there were not
some exceptions under the law.
me mothers want to keep their boys
pnsy during the summer months.
SchooI is out and some of the boys
get into mischief while idling away
their vacations. Boys between the
ages OF II and 5 years are able to do
lot or work during their summer va
cations, and they are also able to get
INTO a lot or mischief If they have 10
work to do Consequently, the moth
ers think they have a problem con-
fronting them. Some of the mothers
md fault with the child labor law, al
lnougn tney would not think of placing
one or their children in a sweat shop
or of keeping one Of them out Of
school In order to work.
keep boy out of summer employ
ments letting him run the street until
ne Is 16 years old, and you have sent
q boy long way on the road to worth
iessness," says one woman in a letter
TO the attorney general. "Give the
average boy some honest work during
the summer vacation and you insti1
the germ of industry and thrift. The
boy who earns his own living or a
part of it before he is 16 is sure to
become useful and much better citi-
zen Indn one who runs the streets and
gets into mischief"
The tenor of all the letters is that
the next legislature be asked to revise
the child labor law, so that BOYS of
Il can work during their summer va
cations. The law prohibits them now
One noticeable thing in connection with
the letters is that not one of them
comes from a father It is the mother
who is anxious about the boy and
wants to keep him employed. However
there Is no hope in the attorney gen
erafs and labor commissioners Office.
They cannot change the 1aw.=Holton
Signal.
ARE HOT WINDS GLOWING? NIX.
If Kansas should have real hot
wind the people would just keel over
and die They call the winds this
year hot. but they are refreshing
breezes compared with the hot winds
they used to have out in Western Kan
sas. These winds are disagreeable,
those were killing. In a day they
have been known to kill every living
thing that was making an attempt to
grow. The mornings were cool out
there, but about 10 o'clock the ovens
of a thousands devils were opened and
the hot blasts came trooping out mad
for conquest, impatient of the re-
straint that kept them in over night.
Nothing was spared, nothing escaped.
There was no cry of quarter, because
there was no way to hear the cry. The
dumb stalks of corn were suppressed
into silence and hastily rolled into rolls
so tight that they never could unroll
BY night everything was dead, but
there sprang up an aggravating and
delightful breeze which cooled things
off But there was nothing for the hot
winds to do the second day. They
raced over the desolation like ghouls
One day was enough. one day muir
dered the crops.-Lawrence Journal.