Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-08
BABY REGISTRATION
IS HELD IMPERATIVE
National Conference of Chair
ties and Correction Hears
Dr.. Meriam'S Views.

SEATTLE, Wash, July S.-Children-
immigrants and the relation OF CONNER
cial bodies to social welfare We're dis
cussed In three sectional meetings OF the
national conference OF ar!ties and cor
rection this morning.
1t Is more important for mothers TO see
that the births of their babies are regis
tered than IL ia to see that their own
marriage is recorded. according t. Or
Lewis Merriam OF the federal chiid1ens
bureau.
DR.. Merriam in an address on Auditing
the Birth Account" before the conference
here this morning said every mother
should specifically ask the person in at
tendance upon her whether the baby has
been properly registered. The birth J.
just as sacred as the marriage. and the
reasons for recording the marriage are,
II anything of lesser Importance than the
reasons for recording the BIRTH The COM
munity must therefore demand that per-
sons who are In attendance at births shaii
make reports. and IL they fail to do SO
that they be prosecuted
Business No Longer Private"
In the report OF his committee on the
relation OF commercial organizations
to social welfare Roger N. Baldwin OF
St Louis submitted that the most
striking factor In the business world
OF today 10 the increasing interest OF
the public In business. Private business
is regarded as a proper field for pub
lie inquiry. Business Is really no longer
private. This development Is recfp,
rocated by the interest Of organized
business in the public. Never before
has business broadened its horizon TO
the extent Of recognising In practically
every Issue its effect on business. A
new attitude Of business itself is being
formulated and expressed through the
daily activities OF business organiza-
tions In such public movements 40
| housing. city planning. industrial legis-
lation. vocational guidance, recreation
| and charities Endorsement.
| Commercial organizations in America
have gotten into the movement for In
telligent city planning. arranging for
city's fifty years growth into move
ment for better forms OF government and
cleaner political organization. because
they recognize that community TO be
great commercially must be clean pub
| icly Charities Endorsement has particu-
| larry come to be a recognized FUN ,fcn :.
| commercial organizations b ans
membership Is so persistent apRea - ta
! for funds by the charitis
Labor Market Big Fectot
EN-. Williams Il Cleveland. whose X
| ject was g Chamber II Cornm-rcs a-.t-
tant saia.
You may talk Of free sites ..oass
cheap pov4r and All else IS e-.e''r'.t.
factors f. attracting new cap ral t~t '"t
.n6us;ry. A. great - II a.i ,si... .-a
! these = the cpfid ton - tla l-
kei II. -a.ne..Sa.. .-.0ofsr SAINTS /" ..*
that the mone! &c * $50 tet sea
honesty expended
He wants pure water. mi..s -. %
He wants his dwelling TO iar 90 at
mosphere of a home. He is .r-4 nc oy
the absence O. conditions t.at make Tor
a his h death rate. He wants MS Children
TO receive a better education than was his
lot /"
John r. Howard OF Boston told q the
rural problem. The rural population,
he said lis without 'adersh-p. IN"
most energetic having moved on 10 the
cities, the residue presents sort OF dead
level from which enterprise cannot be eX-
pected."
The speakers at the immigration round
table included Charles Perry Taylor, sec
Rotary OF the Washington State Fedora
ton Of Labor. and John A. GoodTeii, IN
terpational secretary of the Industrial De
parrment of the Y. NJ c. \.