The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-07
Department
0FLABOR HAS
new EXPERTS
ChiIdren's Bureau viii Widen
Its Scope Very Much as
the Result.

WASHINGTON, NOV. 7.-An-
nouncement has just been made of
the appointment of three experts on
the star Of the Children's Bureau OF
the Department Of Labor. They are
designated as Expert on Sanitation;
Statistical Expert and Social Service
Expert, and are to have charge OF di-
visions in the bureau working along
these various lines.
DIR. Grace u. NIeigs
The Expert on Sanitation, DR..
Grace L. Meigs, is a native OF Illinois
Ia graduate of Bryn Mawr College
and of Rush Medical School (Uni-
versity of Chicago, and has done
postgraduate work in foreign hos
pitfalls under such children's special
lists as Prof. v. Pirquet, Of Vienna,
Prof. Finkelstein, Of Berlin. and
Prof. v. Bokay. Of Budapest. DR..
Meigs comes to the Children's Bu-
reau from Cooy County Hospital, Of
Chicago, where she has been an at
tending physician in children!s dis
eases. She will act In general ca
pacity to the bureau in matters OF
child health and hygiene.
Mr.. Frank s. Brown: the new
statistical expert, a graduate of Dart
mouth College. has been connected
since 1904 with the Massachusetts
Bureau OF Statistics, having been for
the last five years chief statistician
and In charge Of all the Massachus-
etts bureaus activities in the field
of labor. He is a member of the
American Statistical Association, the
American Association for Labor Leg
islation, the American Economic AS
sociation, and the international AS
ISOLATION on Unemployment. His
work in the Children's Bureau will
be to take charge Of the tabulation Of
material gathered in the various
field inquiries Of the bureau, and in
part to do the preliminary work in
the preparation Of such field studies.
Thus his immediate work will be to
determine upon series Of localities
in which the inquiry into infant NOR
tally will be carried forward and to
precede the bureaus field agents in
such localities with a statement Of
the purpose Of the inquiry.
Social Service Expert.
Miss Emma o. Lundberg, the new
~ appointed Social Service Expert, is
a graduate OF the University OF Wis
consin and is especially well qualified
to take up this phase of the bureaus
work, through courses In child prob
lens at the New York School of Phil
anthropy and the Chicago School of
Civics and Philanthropy, and by res
idence in various social settlements
Denison House In B Iston, the College
Settlement In New York, and Chica-
20 Commons in Chicago-in addition
to professional work in this field.
She has done organized charity work
in Chicago and Milwaukee and since
1900 has taken an active part in So
cial and reformation work in the
state Of Wisconsin. In 1912 she was
made deputy OF the Wisconsin In
dustrial Commission, making special
investigations Of child labor.
All Young People.
The new experts are all young peo-
pie, exceptionally well trained in
their respective fields Of economies,
sociology, and medicine, and eager to
place their services in work for chill
dren at the disposal Of the United
States government. They were all
secured by the Civil Service Commits
sion through the method OF nonas-
sembled examinations. This method
consists in securing statements re-
garding education, experience, and
general fitness for the work, made
by the applicant at home or wherever
may be most convenient, corrobor-
ated by references whose communi-
cations to the commission are conf