Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-01-01
CONSERVATION Of CHILDREN
(By Gertrude Breslan Fuller.)

(By G6rtru0e br6SIau ful0Q.l
And they fling him hour by hour,
Limbs Of men to give him power;
Brains Of men to give him cunning;
and for dainties to devour.
Childrens souls, the little worth:
hearts of women, oheaDly bought;
He takes them and he breaks the, bur,
he 1ivoS them Scanty thought"
William Vaughn Moody.
Take care Of the women and child.
rem and the nation VIII take care OF
itself" might be narrowed down to
take care of the children and the
race will take care Of itself" The
proletariaa children are the hope OF
the world. We know our adults today
are warped and marred by bad OF
false teaching and the brutalizin9 in
fiuences Of an econamic environment
Of war, hate. fear and eeaseless strug.
Gle.
Lost of us realize some Of the many
ennobling things our lives have lacK
ed and know, too, that it will take q
couple of generations Of improved
teaching and better living to develop
people that can establish and soper
ate anything like our ideal Of a Go
operative Commonwealth.
While the rest of the world Is busy
and anxious about conservation of for
ests, water power. fish and pigs, tbs
supreme issue Wluh The SOCIALIST /;
to establish industries, government a
| social institutions for the conserva
ton Of human beings first OF ali ;.
ot..el tnAIgs IN The order OF theil
| ,i,,o 10
Spencer reminds US that as we az,
the children OF the past so are W
he parents of the future.
We have the citizens of tomorrow
IN our care today. We furnish the en-
:. vironment that shall make fair or evi
our most precious product, humanity
Life is raw material, environment j;
the mold in which it is cast. The raw
material comes to us from natures lat
oratory as good material. An eminel
English authority after an exhaustiN
study of slums and tenement childrel
states that no matter low terrible th'
physical and moral status of the par
ents, 900 of all children are bor'
sound in body and mind.
/ The stream of life is wholesome
nature tends strongly to keep thine
normal. The marvel is that human BE-
ings have kept as good as they as
i under such damaging conditions anc
this is proof of what Blanchard calls
the "ineradicable goodness" of huma,
nature.
4 Recent Investigations s. Nv = a.
infant death rate is frightfully high
that in this matter we rank with In,
Il foaV1 nd hof ~ md
tries. 100000 of our babies die eacl
year; fully two-thirds o fthese death;
are due solely to the fact that We
have capitalized their killing, we con
sent to and leagalize the conditions
that make their death inevitable.
We out-Herod Herod. Poverty
feeds ON the innocents.
Our infant death rate in tenemen
districts runs as high as $40 to 1000
When the attempt to dig the Panama
canal by capitalist methods was made
greed defeated itself. Men would moi
go where the chances of death were
\ 240 out of 1000.
Z This government took hold and ap
lplying modern scientific knowledge
4 methods to the saving Of men as vel
as the mechanical tools used in the
enterprise. our experts reduced the
death rate to Is per 1000, lower thar
that of any American city.
If from any part of this country
came report to the government thai
some dread epidemic was killing 81
little pigs out of every 1000, a govern
ment expert would arrive by the mex
train; no money or effort would be