Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-14
BY Associated Press
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June A.

CLEVELAND, ONO, June IT,
Jud ge Julian w. Mack of the United
States Court of Commerce and presi-
dent of the National Conference Of
Charities and Correction, in his pres
idential address, which marked the
opening Of the seven days session
of the thirty-ninth annual conference
here this evening, made a profund
appeal to the manhood and woman.
hood of the state and nation for
a broader, deeper more constructive
charity than has even heretofore
been practiced in tais country.
:. After reviewing the advances that
have been made in charitable and
correctional, work in the United
States since the national conference
met in Cleveland in 1880, during
which period he said it had been dis
covered that the roots of the causes
of dependency and delinquency were
to be found not only and not primar-
lily in the individual, but in society
itself, and after paying marked trt
butte to the men and religion forward
movement, which he characterized
as an event than which none had
been so full Of promise for the future,
Judge Mack concluded that what
ever our differences may be, we
shall all agree that while religion is
more than good air, good water,
good food, good wages, in its social
fullness, it is not, less; however
strong may be the emphasis that has
heretofore been laid upon social SER
vice as a religious duty, surely the
bonds of human brotherhood would
be strengthened and the cause OF
social justice advanced if broader
forward movement, limited not to
men and not to the followers of
single religion, were by the united
action of such representatives Of all
faiths and are gathered here carried
into every city, village, and hamlet
of our land. We should not then
have to await another Titantic disas.
ter to find all men, regardless of race
and creed, rank and station, riches
and poverty, standing together upon
a common platform of genuine DEM
ocracy, vieing with each other in
upholding the noblest traditions Of
the race, sacrificing even life itself
in the service of the weakest and
poorest Of their fellows"
'4Thirty years ago." according to
Judge Mack, 1.-THE state was more con-
cerned with correction than with
charities. The road hence has been
a long one, but the pace has been
that Of the automobile and te fly
ing machine. a'':;:
''rhe golden age Of childhood has
arrived. To the child We have de-
termined to accord the birthright of
every human being-the opportunity
for the development OF its highest
to prevent it from engaging
too early and in too dangerous &C.
to substitute the school for
the factory, to save it from the Grim
inalizing treatment of criminal
courts and jails.
But even today in some states the !
smallest of the children are still per-
mitted to work; in none of them are
the child labor laws up to the ma
tional child labor committee. During !
The past year bitter assaults have |
been levelled against juvenile pro- !
baton and the juvenile court in Chi
cago, the very city of it's origin. In
spite OF which the institution of love
and sympathy and understanding for
of industrial schols for
me reformatory and penitentiary
will continue.
"Eradication of evil is not enough.
philanthropy demands
hat 1t be replaced by the positive
good. Childhood needs protection
against the dangers of an evil birth,
lot merely by preventing marriage
II the unfit but by shielding the
mother from unnecessary labor for
sufficient period before and after
firth, and by requiring better edu-
;ation Of midwives. Infant mortal
ty is to be reduced and the age of
,abyhood made safer not alone by
the sale of impure milk