New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-19
- Baker Tells Women
~ That Children Face
Dark Future.
,esT IDEA OUSTED
BY RUSH OF WORK
o., Made TO Safeguard Messen'
GER Boys from Peri'S of
Civ al Night.

g.. rrom by Josepnihe N"N'''
.-, Bureau o. child Hygicne OF
pa, 80 Of Health. New York Is CITY
~ eo-,os And the schools Of New
utterly untitled 20 give the
-.,e generation the things that MONIES
- civ. q II there were homes. Di'
49, ,r,rressed these facts on an suo'-
aAA' u,o~,en that filled the rooms o.
ti'' ,r.-,.,,s Political Union. al No. IS
.o4 street. almost 10 suaocanon
~" s.ndav tea yesterday afternoon
ri,.po~ Gates. who wrote The
-rere Rich Girl" vas the otner
- and she. too. took The child io'
49,, She called on the Women
......l r-r.on 90 Join Leg ia getting up
80 meeting 10 acitate the question
,,,.s FOR vacc earning mothers
-. Wien comfortable inexpensive
ms BIG enough for mother ana o'ii-
nd with = cr6che and q DAY nu'-
and = restaurant attached.
49, Bake told FIRST what had been &C
-.,,sbe5 IN lowering the death rate
- hshos in New York. till the city
.s &C high in this respect as any
~, n the first second or third class IN
=, land But she said. too. that the
.res-,n OF foreign parentage in the
.,..n.Dts we're IN a lad way physically.
~ he rhyslcal tests al Ellis Island
-, &c thorough as the mental tests.
I'D more Immigrants would be
s.,,-tss Too many understood. unht
80. are LEI in. And then those women
linz from the old country. live here
..,s ~ iu our tenements The men
..t.ss, GO, out in the air. but the women
49, what wonder that their children
40 unhealthy
-~ssv are not only unhealthy, but they
q. M ethical training We Of this gen
,-,,io- used 20 have some teaching
,sout right and wrong al home, but Ne"
~,-s ms no homes now And the
,.ss,ls don't give this teaching. so the
,,nsrsn don't get IT, I 90 not, by the
,,r believe that We are ready 90 have
-,~.r,io- about sex IN the schools.
The fact is We have so mudoled up
no psvcholory o. sex with the white
.s,. problem that We are I'm no condl-
,,r 10 teach the thing sanely. Chloren
.s,uld know certain truths.
Ethical training. however. schools
.ol5 give. and they don't do H. and
,s.r should make boys and girls eco
rsriealiv independent. and they don I
d. IT, There IS something radically
.-s,e with our schools u seems 10 me
.s--ile that forty thousand work GER
.s,stss are issued iu year 10 young
.rs snd girls and many Of these leave
tsooi before they should because school
r not interesting % them.
-0ur schools are run on the idea that
go are filled with thirst FOR learning,
Il. Tho majority q boys and girls are
o. They want 20 DO something with
ssr hands and not 10 arm them with
trade is 10 set them in a path that VIII
20 IN the park bench or the reform
uuy
Mas Gates after she made her plea
'a- home hotels for working women with
taren had q few words 10 say about
nssssnser bows and the peri's they run.
The Gerry society," she said. main
uhs a very thorough espionage over
ga:s children. They are 50 thorough IN
Boston thar tho officers came TO warn me
that must take of wax doll. the
,ha5ov ~ which was being thrown on a
screen They had only seen the screen,
b. the way. So they didn't know the baby
vas doll
"Watchfulness over stage children IS all
rshL but 4 must 20 through lot or
'e tape 20 get n permit for boy I"
zone on the stage in play I am pro-
ssarT come on Tor q few minutes IN
Messenger boy part. why Is there no
Eaichfulness over the real messenger boys
Sho are Going about the city all night
Mothers don't know what these boys see
rsr know but they won't tell US.
WY. only the other night boy whom
! dispatched with some manuscript.
Hts fellow % eleven. landed in a build
v On lower Broadway. utterly stupehed
Nth, apparently. some drug. Word was
sm 70 me because nv address was on
NJ manuscript Those boys become CO.
'slns fends gamblers. they initiate while
iho are children che vices they witness IN
ne great city a. night
1t the women demand that the mos
hhivf service al nisht shall be composed
O men We shall have a hard time, be
ause the vested interests that employ
ee ooya and the druggists for whom they
,uV cocaine would have powerful lobby
'npcse any attempt 20 get legislation
.--etel. but W can DO N II We try..