The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-10-17


II will be on these that / will address
you this afternoon.
Men in public life and private wei.
come women as an influence Many
things to which We do not pay much !
attention, that We selfishly pass up |
as n were. are left TO women. II is !
not indifference. nor lack OF interest.
nut In way the man leaves these
matters to the woman. believing that !
she will satisfactorily adjust them. /
When the emergency comes. We be-
lieve that the women OF America TO
day will be equal TO the emergency.
You may do as YOU please and men
VIII be proud OF you for doing Il.
Need Woman's Influence.
Sadly needed is the influence oil
women in industrial. political. social
and moral life. To accomplish what
is wanted in this country to-day is
the work Of the well-meaninc woman.
We find the American child taken
/ from the school and placed in the
; factory. We ask ourselves the cues.
ton. What will this child be twenty.
i've years from today Remember.
women. that twenty-five years from 10.
day this child will be one OF the rul.
ers or the nation. The laws will be-
based on his vote. What kind OF
government will he make? The boy
who. without education who goes into
the factory as a boy9 The girl. who
as a girl. Is placed in the factory
what kind OF children will she bear
There are defects in our educa-
I tional system. n is true. but the great
American school Is the finest man
manufacturing establishment in the
world
IT is our mission 10 remove from
the paths Of the child the obstacles
which block the way Of the man. that
cause the grown man 10 stumble
There Is the opposition TO child la
Dor Tor industrial reasons When our
I legislatures assemble they are sur
rounded by the lobbyists against the
adoption OF laws preventing child la
Dor southern States have been con
I ironted with the proposition that H.
an anti-child labor law were adopted.
Industries there would move into
States that did not legislate in this
manner. Therefore comes the neces.
sity Of Federal statute on this sub
iect
1T Is appalling 10 know that in this
country there are 200. 900 children OF
school age not in school on Sep
TENDER Of this year these children
were employed in 200 different occu-
pations.
These sunken-chested little beings
with lonS and wistful eyes. their hun
CRY faces the victims Of Industrial
conditions as they are in some sec.
tons Of this great and free America.
is 10 not pathetic
Abolish Cigarettes.
Another bill was the cigarette act.
I making it an unlawful act 10 sell 10
minors. or for minors 70 buy cigar.
I elites. IT The cigarette is as harmful
as We are taught to believe IL Is. why
not abolish its manufacture and sale
altogether
We have provided for the working
or convicts from our iails and penfNpn-
tiary on the public roads
There should be- q special statute
. pertaining TO wife heaters The man
who goes TO Jail for this reason Jan tn
fall and stays there. well fed. through.
out the winter. 10 be released in the
spring. sleek and fai. ls a menace to
society There should be- workhouses
whcf" ho would earn wage that in
. part would go 20 his family for their
/ support
while holding court in another
b county recently was horridcd zoo the
. disclosures made before the court a.
to ~ Strip that the c1mhllur vice
hes ta.@n on the country boy OF that
district
Divorce Laws
our divorce laws encourage tho
separation OF married couples and OF
. OBJ" breaking up Of homes Or there
over w.. ID sfrfe fr which fh. rs.g.s