The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-25
CHILD LABOR DAY TO BE
OBSERVED IN CHURCHES
TO-DAY AND TOMORROW

ssChiId labor day viii be observed
in thousands of American syna gogues
and churches to-day and Tomorrow,
in accordance with the request OF the
National Child Labor Committee of
the United States. Jews; Catholics
ed in this movement TO. the protec-
ton of youth All over the world
humanifarians have heard and are
answering 1.-The bitter cry of the chill
dren,'' and in every land protests are
being sounded against system that
deprives youth of JOY and education
and opportunity.
Last year 5000 cIergymen observ-
ed child labor day with special SER
vices and sermons, and the number
is likely to be much greater this year.
The United States7 committee has Sc
cured the ablish1nent of chill
dren's bureau, and, in the last year,
has influenced the passage of improv-
ed child labor laws in ten States Ed
ucationaI child labor exhibitions have
been held in various cities. This
year the committee is directing it's
attention largely to child labor in ten
ement workshops in the larger cities
constitute a menace to public health,
the committee has pointed out.
The committee declares that child
1aborers become unskilled adult la
borers, and that this involves an eco
nomic loss The Chicago vice COM
znission. after a thorough inquiry,
found that the second greatest cause
why 10000 girls are sacrificed an
nua1Iy to an immoral life is 1.-The eco
homie stress of industrial life on un-
skilled workers, with the eenfeebling
influences on the will power" The
greatest cause of vice the commission
found to be a lack of ethical training,
but this is doubtless largely due to
child labor.
In Great Britain and ireland SINH
lar Investigations have recently been
made. and alarming conditions have
been discovered. Hundreds of thou
sands of children, both boys and girls,
are employed in British industries. In
many industries where girls are en-
ployed in large numbers, the average
pay was found to be about one cent
an hour.
To-day is the centennial of the con-
cordat between Napoleon and Pope
Plus VII, which. was signed at F'on-
tafublezI8 joan. 2S5 1913. The first
ccncordat between the seventh Plus
and the Man of Destiny was signed in
1901. and three years later the Pope
was induced to visit France and pre-
side at the formal conservation of THO
.Corsican upstart' as emperor at No
tire Dame. Plus parted from Napo-
will. but within a year Napoleon's
troops occupied Ancona upon the al
legged necessity of protecting the Holy
See. Plus replied by asserting the
independence and neutrality of his
realm. In 1903 diplomatic relations
between France and Rome were brok-
en- on, and Napoleon declared the pa
pal states reunited to France. Plus
responded with a bull excommunicat-
ing the invaders of his territory. The
Pope was forcibly carried off, first
to GrenobIe, then to the royal palace of
FontainbIeau, where Napoleon induc-
ed him to sign the new concordat a
century ago to-day. Later Plus with
drew his concessions and, with Napo-
Icons downfall, his states were restor-
ed to him.
To-day is also the centennial of the
birth of James Marion SiInn1s, the dis
tinguished American author and in
Fentor.