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parent or parents at such times as said
order may designate the amount 80 Bpecl-
lied for the care of such dependent or
neglected child until the further order OF
the Court"
You will notice that this law speaks OF
parents, but from natural causes IL IL
practically always to the mother that the
money is paid.
This law, which 1 and my associates
succeeded In having passed, has worked
splendidly. Within few months 1T has
saved hundreds Of innocent mothers from
unspeakable torture, It has saved over
thousand children from becoming institu-
tionalized and OF doubtful value to society.
Cook County on July l was helping 327
mothers with 1,200 children. The sum
expended was $6,963.96 for the month OF
June, the amount paid to each mother
OF three and two-thirds children to the
family.
The total amount expended during the
year In the whole State will, 1t Is esti-
mated. amount to 100000. In the follow
Ing year we expect that 1t will como to
100000. The total amount, we believe.
will never be more than 100000 year
for the State.
This method OF taking care Of depend
ent children is not only an immense ad-
vance In humanity, 1t is a great saving
to the State Charitable institutions are
every "uere e8tgdfd5dnL III luSlr QeLnanQS
and methods. In Illinois the poor mother
will take care Of her child we'll for about
half the amount the charitable institution
asks for doing the work unsatisfactory.
In Chicago we used to pay $40 month
TO an institution for taking care of a
child.
New York is very liberal in It's allowance
for dependent children, and the results are
no more satisfactory that elsewhere. New
York allows $2.75 week for each child,
which amounts to S11.91 a month In
addition, It allows seventy cents a day
for schooling and other amounts for med.
ical attendance and other requirements.
According to the last report I have re-
ceived, New York spent S1,089.6o9 on de-
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By HENRY NEIL.
Secretary of the National Probation fs.oue

TN the United States when woman is
| deprived of her husband by some ac-
u cideut we take her children away from
her and put them in an institution.
The mother is made miserable by the
driven into an early grave by her sor-
rows. The children are 'institurionalized.
That means that they are stamped with
an influence that deprives them OF self
respect, character, enterprise and loyalty
to home and family. They know neither
home nor family and therefore can have
no love for them.
The children OF the institutions furnish
O large proportion OF our delinquents.
From the institution they pass on to the
acknowledgement then too often TO the
Jail. OF four young men Of the age OF
eighteen hanged In Cook County early
this year all had been raised In charitable
or reformative institutions.
significant fact ! have discovered La
that more than half Of all recorded wife
deserters were raised In institutions.
This method OF running families is be-
ing followed practically all over the
United States. 1t is certainly the method
followed by ALL great cities: In Illinois we
have departed from it. We have passed
"The Mothers Pension Law" which
makes a suitable provision for every
child whose mother. through no wrongdo-
ing OF her own. is unable to support 1t,
the money to be expended by her under
the supervision Of an agent Of the Chill
dren's Court.
This law, which went into effect ON
July 1. 1911, reads as follows:
If the parent or parents OF such de-
pendent OF neglected child are poor and
unable to properly care for said child.
but are otherwise proper guardians, and
IL is for the welfare of such child to re-
of <ha
order finding such facts and fixing the
amount OF money necessary to enable the
parent or parents TO properly care for
such child. and thereupon 1t shall be the
duty OF the County Board through its
County Agent or otherwise to pay to such
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pendent children, of whom there were
8,S48 In various institutions at the close
of the year.
Not only does the city pay the large
amount mentioned to the charitable insti
tutiops, but the public also contributes
largely In the form OF voluntary subscrip-
tions. When this Is taken into considera-
ton, the economy Of leaving the child
with its mother is seen to be all the
greater.
| have estimated that mother could
take care of two children for the amount
paid by the City Of New York to an in
stitution for one child, and still leave
Al cents per month Of the taxpayers
money that might be saved.
The institution is a costly affair. The
overhead charges for superintendent,
bookkeepers, nurses and all kinds Of cost
ly helpers are very great. All this is
saved when you leave the child with It's
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from her children. Imagine family con-
sisting of an unskilled laborer, his wife
and five children. We are told that
healthy couple who raise large family
are doing service to the State. Assume
that this man and his wife are doing
the best they can for their family. In
any case they will have no money to spare.
One day the man is killed by freight
car he is going to load, an accident that
happens in his class many times a day
all over the country. The widowed
mother nearly kills herself in an effort
to earn some money and take care of her
children at the same time. She Is un-
equal to the struggle. Some charitable
society hears that the children are not
properly cared for, The mother Is hauled
up before a Children's Court and all or
most of her children are taken away from
her, probably never to be seen by her
again.
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for existence) had full and oorn,o.a
charge OF the little girl
She lived there for a few months Tben
she was boarded out, now here, now
tnere. Sometimes she went to school and
sometimes she did not
Mother love, mother sympathy, mother
softness, entirely was absent from her eX-
perlence, In time she considered herself
wronged by every one. She could not
call her life her own. When she was If
teen a woman told her she must go TO
work. She was large for her age and
they said she was strong.
You must go to work" said this woman,
and Effie knew it was true, for always she
was ordered to do things. She had no
choice,
The county had been paying $40 a
month for her board through the institu-
ton, The court which had committed her
to this society concerned Itself no more
about her. That is the law.
Thus it went for five years. Once she
escaped, but policeman caught her and
locked her in prison. Efie claimed she
was twenty-one, although the court rec
ords said she was but twenty and still a
slave to be disciplined by policeman.
In all these years she had no control of
her own earnings. She was large and
strong and had she not been held by an
institution she easily would have earned
from S5 to IS a week doing housework.
and she ran away and was married. At
ter she was married she received papers
giving her freedom for the first time in
eleven years. There are many Effies in
Illinois, but they do not all end as we'll
as she.
The cruelty of the system is often
brought out by the pitiful struggles OF
mothers to prevent their children from
being taken by institutions. In Chicago /
have known Of mothers who have hidden
their children, Of others who have fed
from the city, Of others who have barri-
caded themselves in their rooms. Of those
who have threatened TO commit suicide
simply because they knew that charitable
institutions were seeking 10 take their
children from them ] do not wish TO
dwell on morbid details, but there Is no
doubt that many mothers have committed
suicide simply because their children had
been taken from them.
The inhumanity Of prevailing laws goes
even further than / have yet outlined. In
Illinois there was a provision in the law
that when a society found a home for a
dependent child, with adaptive parents,
1t must refuse all information to the
mother or natural parents concerning the
whereabouts of the child. 1t was a GRIM
inal offense to furnish such information.
The law, you see. deliberately planned to
effect the perpetual separation Of mother
and child.
In New York there are laws and rules
that are equally Objectionable. For in
stance the city pays $40 to a charitable
society for finding "a home" for depend
ent child In the vast majority OF cases
the home" is with farmer In some dis
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tant part OF the country. say South
kota, where there Is keen demand
labor.
The far""r gets the child's servicee
nothing. 70" some years at least He
no mateT:a interest in the child.
interest is primarily business one.
result in this case again Is almost In
ably the perpetual separation of a mo
from her child,
Now, | maintain that every child b
natural right to the support and com
ionship of its mother, and conver|
that the mother has a natural right Ia
love and companionship Of her child
am speaking, mark you. of motherB
are accused OF no wrong doing. ~
argument drawn from nature and mon
will prove that these are natural TiG
The memory OF a mothers care ant
lection is the best possession that q
can have in after life. 1t will make
true to his wife and children and %
obligations as a citizen.
Our charitable institutions are pro
Ing children who have no conception
these obligations. The extent TO vi
the number OF these institutlonal1I
children is increasing among the unski
laboring classes is startling and Ia
realized by the average respectable citl
An institution grows strangely by who
produces.
Suppose that a hundred dependent .
are sent to an institution. After
have left and grown up they will M
and have on the average five child
apiece. They are as a rule utterly q
less, reckless and improvident. d
than half of them will desert their ~
as the burden of supporting the child
becomes severe. Thus ESQ children
be sent to institutions. They will n
1880 children Of whom half. or 626s
be sent to institutions.
These in turn will provide propoyt
ate crop OF dependent children. At
rate 1t may easily be calculated that
whole Of the unskilled laboring popula'
OF the great cities would in few gen
tions fall into the "institutionana
class. I cannot believe that that calau
will ever come TO pass, for 1t would re@
us to the rank of an uncivilized natiol
shiftless nomads,
The Mothers Pension law has
proved to be one practical step on
way to averting this calamity. Our
now is to have similar law put IN q
throughout the country. With tn!1
view am sending information to the "a
lators in all our States, explaining
vital and unassailable moral object of
law and its excellent practical worEin9
Illinois at present. I am concentfe1
my energies on an appeal to the Ie91
tors of New York, SO that they may
action at the coming session OF the ~
lature. u
appeal to the good citizenship o.
country to save the mothers OF the t
est laboring classes from lifelong anq
deserved misery and their children
degeneration.
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Why the mother instead of employing the police
TO do herT

Thus in return for having tried 10 w
her duty to the State you punish mo.n..
vent this kind OF tragedy that we have
passed "The Mothers Pension Law.
l can show that under our old system
of caring for dependent children we nave
really established form of legalized child
slavery. J will tell you the story OF one
such child slave in Illinois.
When Effie Smith was seven years OF
age her mother was left a widow. The
father was killed at his work. Her mother
managed to live and support her daughter
and two younger ones for eighteen
months. Then she became 80 poor she
was found starving and freezing on cold
Winters day,
Charity helped her for few weeks, Il
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mother The mother asks nothing for
her labor.
The mother will do her best for her
child for the strongest of natural rea-
SONS. / have no patience with anyone
who argues that an institution can do
better for child than an ignorant mother
The facts / have mentioned concerning
the unhappy careers OF children raised IN
institutions sufficiently disprove this ar
gument, II any inducement beyond the
natural one were needed, we have pro-
vided 1t under the Illinois law, for the
mother must satisfy an officer of the
court that she doing her duty well in
order to secure continuance Of the al
lowance.
Let me emphasize the inhumanity OF
the present system Of separating mother
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THERE Is a philanthropic movement
throughout the country to pension
II mothers. This means that a moth.
ar will receive from the taxes an allow
ance for each child she is unable to sup.
port. The necessity OF sending child to
an institution at public expense is thereby
avoided and a home Is saved from dis
ruption.
The advocates Of this movement say
that chlldrens institutions produce shift
less citizens, with NO conception of civic
duties. grave question is raised here.
The institutions may say that they are
better fitted to raise children than moth
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was then found that she
could not work while she
had to care for the children.
In due course Of time the
three little ones were taken
from her. Willie. the little
boy, and Grace, the baby
sister, were taken to institu
tons, and SO was Effie. What
became Of the young ones
will not be told in this story.
Only Effie's career will De
followed.
She was committed to an
institution by law. Under the
law this institution Ia 2ri.
vate concern, depending I'D.
on charitable contributions
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n slums. At any rate, the Mothers
rension law has gone into effect in y
nnois. Henry Neil, who has been called
the father Of the Mothers Pension law
ana is working to have a similar law
passed In every State in the Union. here
describes Its objects and working:
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4~34xxxSAxxx&x~ =
Tho baseball. basket ball and
football leagues now have . new
''couxin.- It's the motorcycles
league Of clubs. and IN some parts
of the Middle West the leagues Of
riders are very popular.
Among the most active league uf
motorcycle clubs IL the Northern
Ohio league. which 10 planning Ia
stage q number Of circuit motor.
cycle races. Cleveland. Loraln.
EiyriA. Norwaik. Akron. sandusky.
Canton and gainesville are the
oriGinAtors. and thu preliminary
plans call for three races In each
~ the citios and special meets IN
Cleveland and Lornin.
Decoration day races and cndur.
ancs runs arc being planned BY {
number Of motorcyclisss In many
parts Of the country. The most
elaborate plans 10 far have been
evolved BY tho New Jersey Motor
cycle club. which "a preparing "a
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! FINEST FIELD IN WORLD
/ M GOLDEN GATE PARK

= = = =
San Francisco ~ To have the fin
est athletic field In the world IN
Golden Gate park. The track 10 At
present situated az the east end Of
the stadium. but tho new plans call
for its removal TO the west end.
The concrete Efandstand. that At
present In located al the finishing
line ~ tho trotfinx track. win bo
continued the entire way around
the bend Of the stadium and will
b. capable OF seating $4,000 people.
Around the entire track. which will
be four laps to tho mile. there will
be- . concrete curb three inches
high. There viii BE- two straight
Always. one Of 100 yards along tho
east side of the field. and tho 9th,
o. win start and finish In frost Of
the Krnndstand. being 400 yards
long. A special feature will bc thu
markings for hsndlcaps. This will
be sunk Into the concrete eurhina
all the way around the track and
Aiso down both straightaways. For
the hurdle races the location Of
each hurdle viii BE- marked In =
similar manner and the takcoffs
for the relay teams viii also be en-.
bodied In the curb. Special pits
have been provided for tho high
jumpers. broad jumpers and pole
vaulters. while circles are markcd
out for the weight men, The
Olympic trials may DO held there
IN June. next
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B o x 1 N C
w r E S T l. l N G
B 0 w L | N G
WANTS MATCH
WITH AO
HuoHEv MEXICAN or ANvip'
opEs MAY FIGHT CHAMPION

Los ANGELES. March tom
McCarey admitted today that he
may match Ad woigast and iiughey
Michigan Of Australia for the light
weight championship N the title
holder consents TO the fight.
Joe Woodman. manager Of the
little antipodcan. In cable 70 Me.
Carey. boosted his boys stock and
declared his willingness to take on
wolgast on any terms,
Mccarcy viii offer wosgast the
bout. and II the champion Is will
Ing. the bout will be staged In July
or August.
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EXAMINATIONS
NOW ON
DILLON MEETS coFFgv m
OAKLAND TONIGHT

w Sftt*~8 Nt<~< W@4sK
BAN FRANCISCAN. March IT,
Fight fans around the bay are fig
urlng today on interesting develop
mepta Ia the middleweiKht elm
nation contest tonight. when
Jack Dillon and Walter Coffsy
meet In ioround bout before the
Oakland Whecimen'r club. both
mon arc well mp In tho middle
weight division. and both are ann
bilious TO have the title champion
preffsed to their namea.
both man are In splendid condi.
ton Betting al present In light.
but there Ii said 20 be a lot OF
Dillon money In sight. and tho IN.
dinnapoIis boxer probably will be
q blirhf riugsidc fayorIfe.
Dillon II matched 10 fight Frank
klaus for the middleweight cham.
pionship March ~. 30 II IL up TO
him To put Coffey away tonight n
he wants his engagement with the
i'itfsburxcr TO draw any kind OF .
house.
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ODD s,rs or SPORT


X ODD sirs or SPORT =
IxAA<&<tA+tAt<AAh
sydney has . professional soul
ling league.
Alabama university baseball can
didates have wrestling ~ part OF
thsir training.
| City Of Mexico tennis tourney
VIII occur March 81 to April 8.
Boston high schools have made
swimming compulsory.
| Boston wants this years amateur
rowing regatta.
The old Tiamlin race track In
Buffalo ID 70 be cut up into build
| ing lots. while the historic Point
Breeze park At Philadelphia will be
used for business purposes.
| Tho Newcastls United associa-
ton football club. winner OF the
English cup two years ago and run
ncrup last season. II planning TO
visit the United States and Canada
this spring for q series Of games.
Los Angeles Y. N. G. A. has az
pended over tl5o.ooo on its new
athletic field and grounds.
| Toronto's new Arena gardens.
now under construction. will be the
biggest building devoted to sport.
Ing events In Canada
New York city recently opened
four public gymnasiums under the
supervision Of tho Public Recrcar
ton commission.
There are over 100000 racing
pigeons In Great Britain, ranging
In value from Is to 5000 each, and
often ~ many as 10000 birds take
part In one OF the concourse races.
Mas Eleanora Sears Of Boston,
whose exploits az long distance
pedestrian and aviator. polo player,
tennis expert and sll-round athlete
have brought her much fame. has
taken up fancy skating.
At Dundee recently an exhibition
Of cycling was given by Prof II. A.
Upper, an Australian, who IL tour
Ing the world on bicycle. and has
covered 10000 miles. An amusing
part OF the exhibition was HIS rid
Ing OF a 10inch bicycle built by
himself.
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stage = twcnty-sour-hour contest
Memorial day at Newark. n. J.
4 motorcycle show IL being plan
ned for Trenton. n. J.
A unique motorcycle sled capable
Of making mfr miles an hour over
the snow has been designed by
Fred Hare. Of Columbus. o. The
motorcycle IL fastened between two
sieds and the rear wheel acts an q
propeller.
The III Paso fTex-) motorcyclIsts
have recently opened their new
club rooms.
Thirtye.. hit miles In forty seven
minutes over country roads on Z
motorcycle. That's what Julius
Elftman and Eilwood Hollinshead.
Of Rock Falls. Ill.,. claim for . Sun
day afternoon spin.
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nnn u WERE amused 10 read
NAV that Jack Johnsoa was
uu about 70 attempt 10
wrcxf the wrestling larreIs
from tho brow Of Frank Gotch.
though not snrpriscd. knowing
that Jack Il Liable TO say most
anything most any time.
Here's synonym: VIM A.
lArned. greatest Of the present
or past tennis players. IL astrr
tina golf title. What champ 10
next = Dont ali talk at once.
Tp HE Seattle board Of public
works has ordered D. y.
u Dugdaic. proprietor Of the
Seattle baseball club. 20 vncais
18Th avenue within 10 dsys-
The baseball grounds encroAch
Is feet on the avenue. The
boards order will compel the
moving Of the biezehers fur
Their into tho field. already too
small. Tho grounds are down
town. and owners u nciKhbor-
Ing pronnrty Insist ON 18th nv.
enue being opened. DUG 70
busy fixing n up with the city
dads"
ZIP Ills slim Md o'foughiir.
whom Jos Cohn trostcd
u out lnfs last season for
the inspection Of the public.
and who. By the way. possesses
: drop curve that IL . hum
dinger. tried 10 mako tho v.
of w. baseball team four yearw
ago md failed. Wasn't guoA
enough then. 80 be must have
improved. Joe snaxged him
in tho brush around idaho. Joe
Coin may not know the eAine.
but he surely does know n play.
or whsn he sess one--efther
that or he II the iuckisst man
on earth.
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things Oh him. inc othefr h1tr n"t
weather has been cold and they
haven't got the kinka out OF their arms.
Although they do not show AZ worry prom
islng now. have hopes that later devci
cpmcnss may put different complexion
Tn my pitching staff.
Jimmy Sturgis. the southpaw who was
feature Of the championship team last
year. IL sorciy missed. am up against
IL for a lefthander. OF course. Bakers
absence from tho first sack II serious
handicap. and Everett f>ockwood's place
81 third base viii DO filled with difficulty.
Lockwood. In my judgment. was one OF
the best young players on the Coast. and
hia untImely death. last sumner. robbed
the diamond OF bigleague star. arm
usinx several new men on third base. but
none Of them classes with Lockwood.
Jack Connors. In the inficld. IL q whirl-
wind. lie II one OF our very best re-
cruiss Arnry has been called home BY
the illnese Of his mother. and ! am adj
yised be will not return. Connora will
take his place. Arnsy ID = ciassy player.
and II IL very fortunate that w. havo
Connors on hand to fill tho vacancy.
Taken all IN all. think tho team ought
to b. a. good a. that Of last year toward
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CHICAGO. March H. Packey
Mcfarland OF Chicago and Kid
Burns were matched here today to
fight ten rounds NJ keno@ha. VIE.
March 10. McFhriand's accept.
ance was received this afternoon
By wirw from Now YORK. where last
Tuesday he defeated "One Round
Hogan Of San Francisco.
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Ex-Tcnpia Champion Mlss Ma,
Sutton and tho present nations
champion. Miss Hazel Hotchkisa
may meet In . special match 1t ths
Beverly courts. Los Angeles, OF
May 20.
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BAN rRANCIscO. Marc

SAN FRANCISCO. March t.
Speculation II rife among fight
FANS hero today ss 10 the prospect
Of \ rsMI contender for tho dis.
putsd middieweixht crown being
developed At the Otto Berg Brick
Burgess mill hcre tomorrow night.
II Borg puts out Burgcas hs win
be matched 10 meet Sailor Petros.
key In Oakland the latter part a
the month.
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kgsroeE Hosse RACING

! SAN FRANCISCO. March Z.
; With some Of tho most
! powerful men In the state b.
: hind II, the movement for the
: restoration Of horse racing to
! day II gaining rapidly. 4 20
I tition will b. prepared shortly
! asking for the rrpcai OF the
: npti-fnce track betting law ana
! the substitution Of = provision
! making the pari mutual sys-
: TEN legal. and this will b.
! presented 70 the 1914 iegisla,
: turs.