The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-13
ROOLS OJ I'll Question Is Asked By Dr. Felix Adler in a NOta-
 ble Address SPEAKING CLOSES
 CHILD LABOR MEET Immense Audience Hears Addresses of Dr. Adler and Miss Jane Ad- dams-Vote on the Child
 Labor Bill
 

The seventh annual National Child La bor conference, which was voted the most successful in the history of the move ment, was closed with meeting yester- day afternoon, at which pr. Felix Adler, founder of the Ethical Culture society of New York, and Miss Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago, were the principal speakers.
 The final session of the Child Labor con- ference was attended by crowd that more than filled the Orpheum theatre. At the conclusion of the strong appeals made by the two speakers in behalf of child labor reforms the sentiment of the vast audience was found by standing vote to be unanimously in favor of ask ing the legislature of Alabama to pass those bills now pendinb before the body for further regulation of child labor in this state. It was said at the meeting that delegation representing the confer ence and local beneficent organizations will go to Montgomery this morning in the interest of the proposed bill.
 The last session Of the conference was presided over by Dr. J. H. Phillips. He introduced the first speaker, Dr. Adler, as a man of international reputation be- cause of his efforts in the uplift of hu- manity.
 In Interest of Humanity
 q can but echo, in opening my re- marks.o said pr. Adler, ''the words of your chairman as regards my interest for childhood and the uplift of humanity. II is my intention to speak not only in the interest of childhood, nor of the pity we should have for the child; but l shall sneak. as your chairman told you, in the interest of humanity.
 q remember, when I was boy, read ing the story of how an ancient city was built with music, of how the stones leap into their place under the charm or interwoven melodies and the walls were built. The story, of course. is only an allegory. but it has an application to the nresent day which means that if we are to build up a glorious city we must build II to the sounds of music. We must puilo it up not merely to the sound or the creaking wheels of industry but to music-- f., measure, the incorporation Of that measure of doing things with due con- sideration of the means employed, and to the greatest of all social interest, and that the means used should not be to the detriment of the committee.
 Dazzled By Birmingham
 CT have been dazzled today with the first sight of your wonderful Birming- ham, l have never before had the op- portunity of seeing this beautlful clty hetween the mountains, whose indus trial progress Is so prophetic or the future I wish that that legend or the olden days might be impressed on the mind of your people, that they might build the future city according to measure.
 "It Is not merely in the south that we need to learn, but it is the whole country that needs to learn the lesson of self-restraint and moderation In self lf-aggrandizement. Let me say at the closing session of the National Child Labor conference that pubic opinion is back of legislation which regulates the conditions of child labor and the effectiveness of such legfsla- lion Is shown by the very fact that 
 the greatest number of young people who enter into industrial trades are in every case at the minimum age al- lowed by legislation. It is holy war in which we are engaged.
 students of sociology have agreed that 1t is the period of prolonged fn- fancy which has been the sine qua non, the condition without which the evo- lution of the human race could not have come about. It Is the period of prolonged infancy drawing parents to- gether during the age of helplessness of fhe child which has unlocked the spirit of willingness, of self-sacrifice of the parents to bear the burden of the young and thus mankind has climbed from a state of uncouthness, of bar parity.
 For Detestable Gold
 Do we wish to destroy the founda- tion on which all civilization has been built? Do we wish to remove the