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department. Much-needed literature for
the education of parents along other lines
will also be disseminated by this new
government Office.
Accidents to children present another
special problem which, according to the
law, this new office must especially
investigate. Such statistics as have been
gathered to date show that children SUI
fer more severely from accidents than
do adults.
The blind child will also receive atten-
ton. If. as is charged, one-fourth
of our totally blind need not not
house will supply the information which
would save these thousands of victims
of parental ignorance. says Chairman
Sullivan of the New York Association for
the Blind: "Our blind asylums are now
full of children, supported at great ex-
pense to the state and private philan-,
thropy, who could have been saved ex
cept for general ignorance of this sub
ject."
Our mentally subnormal children are
another large class OF the afflicted which
this new bureau will strive to help. 1t
will learn how many of these unfortu-
mates there are among us, how many are
hopeless idiots and imbeciles, and how
many are sufficiently self-directing to
will learn where they are, what provision
is made for their education, what Is al
ready spent for their training and how
many of them are being trained to sup
port themselves.
1t is not claimed that all of these vari-
Gus classes of afflicted children can be
saved to their parents or their country
by the childrens bureau. But 1t is claim
ed that the bureaus aScertainment of
such facts as have been mentioned and
cal authorities will tend to the preserva-
ton of the lives of innumerable thou
sands of American children in the years
to come.
Dependent children constitute the sec
ond general class which the bureau VIII
study and the law establishing it charges
that special investigations under this
sertion. Senator Borah. who piloted the
bill to final passage in his house of Con-
gress, estimates that we nave 10000 de-
pendent children who cost us between
SO, 600 coo and $40, 100000 a year, spent
by private organizations and public in
stitutions. The chdren's bureau will find
out how many of these are orphans and
how many are illegitimate. how many of
the fatherless ones and motherless ones
have been deserted. what killed most of
their dead fathers and mothers, how
many have been orphaned by tuberculosis
and Industrial accidents.
Clues to preventable causes of orphan
age will thus be scented out. An inquiry
will be made as to the proportion of Or
phanage that results in child labor and
into the legal provision made by RESPONSE
BILE employers for the orphans of work.
men killed by accident
An annual reduction of our vast army
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Pennsylvania, where 1t is thirty-four per
hundred. while the lowest, in California,
is only sixteen per hundred.
About 100000 of our babies die before
they reach their fifth year. if the same
average rate as found in the states
keeping statistics is true also of those
which do not register these deaths.
Speaking of these tremendous rates of
infant mortality. Representative Barn
hart of Indiana, while championing the
children's bureau bill in the House. said
the other day.
y
1T is declared that million young
American mothers are annually bringing
children into the world with no qualifica-
ton for the proper care of their health
except love and devotion. The nation and
the states have bureaus of scientific re-
seardh which disseminate information on
all topics Of animal and industrial well
fare, but scarcely line is printed for
free distribution which would prepare
young parents for such care Of their
children as would make of them sturdy
and successful citizens"
To help reduce our annual sacrifice of
these Millions of babies, the children's bu-
reau will, in the first place. find out
the death rates in all Of these states and
then endeavor to account for the wide
divergence of the rates of different states.
1t will work on the principle that the
American child's powers of successfully
battling with the ills of tender age
should be uniformly normal in our va
1ious communities. Where the death
rate of children is higher than the nor
NAL, Investigations will be made to de-
termine whether the high rate is due to
laXity of health department regulations,
to the inability Of the poor to employ
competent physicians at childbirth, to
local epidemic of diseases, etc. Health
regulations needed to protect commune
ties from childrens epidemics will be
recommended.
Food poisoning will be another factor
in infant mortality which the bureau will
probe. From this cause twenty chill
dren die daily in. Indiana, according to
DR.. Hurry, head of that states health
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that nearly half of our boy delinquents
have occupations keeping them upon the
streets and that 80 per cent of our de-
linquent children, as a whole, come from
cities; also that one-fifth of the boys in
some of our cities go to Jail before they
are of age. Jane Adams says that four
fifths of all arrests in the Chicago crimi-
nal courts are of youths between fifteen
and twenty-five, of whom large ma
Jority are under nineteen. -
The child at work constitutes the fourth
OF the chief classes of juveniles whose.
problems will be sifted out and whose
needs will be given publicity The act
constituting the children's bureau charges
it with special investigation of employ.
ment'' and dangerous occupations of
children. 1t wilr be one of the prime
duties of the office to perennialTy turn
the light upon all of the iniquities of
child labor
1t is estimated that between 1,75O, 900
and 2,003,G0O children under sixteen are
required to labor in this enlightened
country. The bureaus experts will make
careful computation of the actual num-
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graduate and also a trustee of Vassar
College Soon after joining Jane Adams
staff she rolled up her sleeves and went
to work in the most squalid tenements of
the needy. She had herself appointed
county visitor of the poor and as
signed to the Chicago slums surround
ing Hull House. During the year of the
Chicago worlds fair the governor elevat-
whereon she served three terms. Through
out this service she always attacked
problems of the charitable institutions
from the viewpoint Of the inmates rather
than of the managers.
Her pluck was shown throughout the
great smallpox epidemic following the
worlds fair. She then exposed herself
daily at the crowded pest house, where
she worked like trojan to keep the pes
thence from spreading to the poor. Next
she started a housekeeping of the char
liable institutions whence had come
charges that political apposntees were
maltreating the inmates. To see actual
conditions for herself, she became an in
mate of one institution after another. ate
their food and slept in their beds. Then
came splashing into print articles ex-
posing the abuses discovered.
She next started in with another woman
reformer-Mrs. Alzina Stevens-to secure
a juvenile court and probation law for
llilnOlS. ana l1elr EFFORTS met WITH maj
success thirteen years ago, despite the
fact that such legislation is now gen
orally regarded as rejecting new ideas.
Chief Lathrop is none of your long
faced reformers. Witty and fully pos
sessed of the saving sense of humor she
has a good story to tell in emphasis of
point to be gained. 1t has been said Of
her in print that "of all reformers that
ever reformed she is least g. nuisance
Under her maternal eye the chill
dren's bureau will work for the con-
servation Of the American chil6-its
health and efficiency. Besides making in
vestigatons of it's own, 1t will be the ma
tional clearing house for all kinds of in
formation bearing upon the welfare of
our Al 100000 children. It is estimated
that four-fifths of the defective legis-
lation passed by our state legislatures and
municipal bodies is due to the local legis-
lators ignorance as to how far they are
behind advanced progress made in other
communities. So this national clearing
house is expected to reduce to a minimum
such mistakes and worthless experiments
as, have been made hitherto by well-mean-
ing champions of the American, child.
Thus will result greater uniformity in the
framing of local laws and the gathering
of local statistics concerning child vel
fare. The central bureau will furnish
every community with any special infor-
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A ND What It Will Accom-
Z = plish for Child Welfare
Will Turn the Light of
Publicity Upon the Various
Evils Threatening the Ameri-
can Child and Will Strive for
the Conservation of His
Health and Efhciency-Will
Be a Clearing House for In
formation Needed by State
and Local Lawmakers as
Well as Child-Welfare Cru
saders-Will Send Experts
Into Various Communities
to Discover Conditions-Four
Glasses of Juveniles Will Re;
ceive the Institutions Special
Attention: Afflicted, Depend
ent and Delinquent Children
and Child Laborers-Uncle
Sam Knows Almost Nothing
of His Forty-one Million
Girls and Boys.
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ing the Morocco trouble Hasse got out a
pamphlet, West Morocco Deutsch," pre-
ferring Germany's claims to a share or
the Shereefian kingdom. This pamphlet
nearly overthrow Foreign Secretary Kid
erlen Waecnter, and has since been the
subject of showers of inexplicable expla-
nations from Wilhelmstrasse
The Pan-German League is backed by
numerous minor associations which "edu-
cate the German people in a patriotic
and anti-British sense and IL is backed
better still by the .'Kriegervereine' or
warriors unions of tme-expired sol
diers, which now count $500. 600 adher-
ents, all pledged to stand for kaiser, en-
pire and miiitarism against the descriptive
pacifism or social democracy.
Copyright. 1872 by Curtis Brown
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nation which it needs and this informa-
ton will be gathered by force of trained
experts, commissioned to travel about the
country and investigate conditions. One
is that none of it's representatives shall.
over the objection of the head of the
family, enter any house used exclusively
as family residence No direct admin
istrative function for furthering new
measures or new laws will be given to the
chief of the bureau, or her experts.
But they will work strenuously to turn
the light of publicity upon social evils OF
which our children are victims. The law
creating the bureau states that it shall
investigate and report upon all matters
pertaining to the welfare OF children and
child LIE among all classes of our people
and shall especially investigate the ques-
lions of infant mortality the birth rate,
dangerous occupations. accidents and dis
cases of children, employment and lexis-
lation affecting children in the several
states and territories.
especially investigated by the office. These
are: Afflicted children, dependent children
delinquent children and children at work
lnrant mortality Is one of the chief
prohiems OF our afflicted children which
the law says shall be especially invests,
gated by the new bureau
x 4
II IS charged that through lack of prop
ef information anywhere from a million
ana half to two million American babies
are allowed to die every ten years
enough OF our infants to populate another
Philadelphia or Chicago. The diffusion If
information which mothers and fathers
need to save these babies lives will he
one or the prime functions of the chill
dren's bureau. States representing oni,,
half the population of the United States
as Yet take the trouble to gather statis-
tics on this subject. Those that do gather
such figures find that twenty-seven out
OF each hundred of their children die be-
fore they are five years old. And among
these the highest death rate for young
sters under kindergarten age is found in
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such sacrifices of German interests. The
league has 400 provincial groups. 1t aims
at keeping up Teutonic national feeling
in Austria, Switzerland and Russia, and
desires to see the German race soldi-
fed by customs union with Austria,
into which Switzerland, Holland and Bel
GUM might later enter.
That was the original programmatic
aim of the ''verband.'' OF late years less
is heard of this aim. The association
has gradually developed into a mere
propaganda for strong ornaments against
England The .'verband'' is active. Dur
ing the Boer war 1t collected $1300o0
for the sufferers; it runs newspapers and
lectures. publishes some effective PAM
phlets and has an able president in Prof.
Ernest Hasse of Leipsig. Hasse is an
eX-soldier of militant pen. and his stand
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Gloom.

ALFRED GWYNNE VANDERBILT. at
dinner in New York, was talking
about English clubs.
There is something very triste. very
depressing" he said. "about the really
fashionable clubs of Pail Mall, st. James
street and Piccadilly. The stiff dignity,
the somber quietude Of these clubs, get
on an Americans nerves.
An American visitor to Whites once
said that the air of the place seemed to
him to suggest that the king lay dead
upstairs"
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PRINCE ADALBERT OF PRUSSIA.
Sailor son Of the kaiser. He In a seri-
GUS young man, and In deeply inter-
ested in the development Of the Ger
man navy.
sillanimity of the German minister at
Mexico and the Berliner Zeitung puts the
German case against the Monroe doctrine
in these notable words:
1T Is regrettable that the German
government has done nothing to exact
vengeance for the bloody deed of Cava-
dono. The objection that to send Ger
man ships to Mexico would violate the
Monroe doctrine Is absurd. In any case
the United States are not masters and
posSessors of the whole western CONT
nent. and when in an anarchical Ameri-
can state German citizens are hacked to
pieces by murderous mob, then Ger
many has the right to demand satisfac-
ton without first asking the permission
of Uncle Sam
4 X
That is the secret attitude of Wilhelm
strasse and of Kaiser Wilhelm But Will
helmstrasse. like all the European chan
celleries, Is mortally afraid Of causing
suspicion at Washington on the score OF
the Monroe doctrine. 1t holds, however,
that Washington should either give Eu-
rope a free hand to chastise unruly Lat
in American states. or that she should
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Slows Best.

NtC Low but sure is good proverb.
and SO is Make haste slowly"
SAID Senator Kern. apropos of one of the
reform movements he is steadily and
conservatively advancing
i believe in hitting the nail on the
mead lot of times gently, rather than
Intting with terrific force the nail on the
finger once"
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A Difference.

~ GORGE ABE. at a dinner in New
" York. urged suhtler use of words.
Use words with delicate care" he
said "Observe all their subtle distinc-
TONS Never write VISION for instance,
when sight is what you mean
There's no differences between siehts
and vision interrupted an editor >
Nor" said Mr.. Ade And yet, Billy.
when you and / passed each other on
Broadway yesterday afternoon the girl
was with was q vision, while the one with
you was sight,
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COncelnin0
Well7knOWn peODlo
The Coming Shock.

yVyILLIAM NJ. CHASE, at the recent
w sale of his pictures in New York.
said to a reporter:
Eyes, these are all good things-things
collected with great care. You can't
comment on them as the teacher once
commented on the pupils drawing.
~ draw what l see,' the pupil said
complacently.
".WelI, the shock will come, the teach
er answered. when you see what you
have drawn"
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girls in their teens and younger. Lately
he awoke to the fact that except as to
their school training he knew very little
about this vast army of juveniles, sufh-
cient in numbers to found a Junior repub
lie of their own more populous than
France. But through this new federal
Office of Juvenile affairs he will grow bet
ter and better acquainted with them
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His Choice for Charity.

FRANK MORRISON. secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, was
concerning in Washington. apropos of
the English coal strike, certain senseless
economies
Economy Is all very WELL" he said,
but some Of the latter-day, scientific
management economy you hear about re.
minds you of the skinfiint millionaire
whose only charity was foreign missions
You see,' the man explained, L
choose foreign missions because / want
to make my money go as far as possible"
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A Comment.

T ADY WARWICK. at dinner i'm New
- York. said, apropos Of art:
art is the pursuit of beauty"
She smiled and added:
"And from what they tell me of the
goings-on in your Great White Way here
the pursuit Of beauty ID also an art with
some people,.
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of delinquent children will be a chief aim
of this new institution.
At least 100000 children are coming be-
fore our courts every year. The children's
bureau VIII learn how many of these are
committed to our jails and reformatories.
what states still confine children in jails
with hardened criminals, how many chill
dren committed to jails and reformatories
return thereto. what occupations are most
responsible for sending children to these
institutions, and so on. 1t has been said
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BIZ JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.

F a parent or lover
of youngsters, you
win be interested in
the children's bu-
reau of the federal
government, which
President Taft's
signature brought
into being upon
the 9th day Of
April
Uncle Sam has
100000 boys and
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der by Mexicans at Cavadono. near Pueb-
la, of Frau Boer, her husband and two
other Germans, all of whom were last
summer hacked to bits with machetes.
After months of vain protest the assas-
sins were thrown into Jail at Puebla. In
March they were allowed to escape by
tunnel. The newspapers ridicule the pu-
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take responsibility for their unruliness,
apply the big stick policy in fact and
see that European subjects and interests
are fairly treated. 1.-THE present sys-
tenn" writes Herr Jensen. for example.
lis that Washington gets all the profit,
but takes none Of the responsibility. 1t
cannot last much longer
While it cannot be said that Germany
is directly aiming at the United States
and the Monroe doctrine in its great
naval program, yet the astonishing
growth Of the German navy certainly
has something to do with Uncle Sam.
Germany is frantically building ships
and would be building them still more
frantically had she got the money. The
obstacle is that eleven reichstag parties,
though nearly all standing for strong
navy. all want to push the financial bur-
den on some one else That is why 1t is
harder to get $2O,OOO,00O for ornaments
in the fatherland than to get $1OO, OOO.-
600 in England At present, with the &C.
clamation Of all patriots, but the dread
of all taxpayers, the imperial government
is preparing new navy law, which will
provide, it Is expected, for two more
dreadnoughts and for the putting into
commission of all eight ships of the first
to be two new army corps for the already
gigantic army. and hundreds of naval and
military experts are writing articles to
prove that these increases are not
enough.
This Is mainly the fruit of the Anglo
German quarrel over Morocco, which has
left Germans in a fiercer mood than they
have known during all their recent his
tory. While the supplemented British
government hugs the delusion that the
Haldane visit to Berlin will prove the
path to peace, many Germans believe that
the two nations are hurtling headlong
into war.
X
While the simple-minded British gov
eminent, despite its rosy illusions, is not
SO simple as to neglect it's ornaments,
the whole German nation is being ''edu-
Gated into the belief that war Is in
sight. During the six hopeful weeks
that have elapsed since the olive-branch-
bringing Haldane sought Berlin nearly
twenty books and pamphlets have issued
from the press. all more or less warning
Germans that their only logic for future
arguments with England Is to arm, to
arm more and still to arm. The book
brochures entitled Germany, Wake
Up. peace or War With Engiand.'
."The German Luxury Fleet" and 1.-THE
Inevitable War;,
The German quarrel with England is
purely one OF rivalry and competitive
strength. and II can be expressed far
better In a table OF navies than In q
hundred historical treat1ses The cause
OF the quarrel Is that England twelve
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W7OULD Kaiser Wilhelm
w Like to Challenge the
Right of Uncle Sam to Shut
the Fatherland Out of South
and Central America?-Ex-
cited Papers Call Upon the
Foreign Office to Assert It's
Right to Do as 1t Pleases
When the Protection of Ger
man Citizens Is at Stake
Big Factors in the Growth of
the German Fleet-Admiral
Won Tirpitz, Who Is More
Powerful Than Chancellors
and Ministers-The German
Navy League, Which Has a
Membership of 100000.
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Germany is today the second naval
power in the world; stronger, if only
''dreadnoughts'' be considered and the
older types of battleships and armored
cruisers be left out of account, than even
the United States. She has reached this
threatening position almost automatical-
ly; partly owing to the decay of the
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f Germany's fleet
were big enough
and Uncle Sans
small enough, the
Monroe doctrine
would be chal-
lenged tomorrow.
said a well inform
ed German. who
lately retired from
official life, to the
writer a few days
ago.
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henceforth until he learns the problems
even of the most needy and most lowly.
His first step in this direction has been
the selection of a ph.lanthropic and kind
hearted woman to act as the maiden
aunt of all young Americans who have
been neglected.
Politicians were astounded when, few
days ago, President Taft announced the
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of Miss Julia Lathrop of
Chicago as chief of the new childrens
bureau. at a salary of $1,000 a year. No
woman bureau chief had ever sat at the
capital in all of the previous history of
the republic. Here, with vengeance, was
the beginning of petticoat rule!
Now let me tell you something about
Chief I4athrop. Like her sister settle
ment worker, Jane Adams, she is a
product of the Illinois prairies and with
Jane Adams she has lived at that ia
nous haven of the poor, Hull House, for
a score of years. They are, consequently,
chums and both believe that life pivots
in the homes of the lowly.
Young Americas new maiden aunt is