The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-15
HIGHER LIVING
 STANDARD NEEDED
OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS DISCUSS LA
 BOR AND LIVING,
Mothers of Young Children Needed in the Homes and Not in the Mills and Factories.

Memphis, Tenn, May 14.-Needs of a higher standard of living and labor were emphasized by speakers at to. nights session of the National Con ference of Charities and Corrections.
 Until a system has been set up that will keep the mothers of young children in their homes and not in the mills, and will keep little chil- dren in their homes and schools, we cannot rest satisfied without stan dards of living anl laDor" was the conclusion of the committee which Iinvestigated the subject The report of the committee was prepared by Charles P. Neill, former United States commissioner of labor was read by owen R. Loveioy of Wash. ington,
 A. J. NcKelWay of Washineton, sec retary of the Southern States Nation. al Child Labor Committee scored in dustrial establishments which do not pay the individual worker a "iyins wage and Rev E. " OHara chair mal of the Oregon Industrial Welfare Commission, told of the standards of his state.
 The minimum wage for the adult experienced woman worker he declar. ed in Oregon. is $S 25 a week with a somewhat higher rate in certain oc- cupatons in the city of Port and The result, he said, has been to advance wages for women workers materially in mercantile establishments and Of fees
 The two decisions of the Oregon supreme court. upholding the wage law, were epocn-maNng, Father O'Hara declared. for they wrote into the fundamental law of the land & humane view of a5or namely that human labor is more than a mere commodity like corn or cotton"
 Lewis W. Hine of New York, a member of the national child labor committee, discussed the high coss of child labor in the south
 A note of insurgency was evident at the business session of the confer ence today when the report of the ex- ecutiye committee, urging the reiec- ton of a proposal for changes in the method of selecting the president of the conference was read The nrc. posal which the conference finally voted down was that the nomindtins committee should be instructed to re- port three names as candidates fOt the presidency instead Of one as ia the custom k. w Hebbard secretary of the state board of charities of New York led the fight against what he termed a system of interlocEing com mittees. Roger N. Baldwin. secre- tary of the civic league of St Louis, also spoke in opposition to the pres ent methods and offered a resolution which would require that the presi dent appoint the nominating commit tee within 60 days of the adjourn ment of the annual meeting and to take steps to have the sentiment Oi the conference members ascertaiaed as 10 nominations The reso ution was referred to the executive com mittee without debate
 Fractional differences, It is under stood. have existed for years as tc the method of selecting executive or ficers.
 Mr. McNclyay. reviewing the work of the National Child Labor commit tee, referred to Arkansas Progress. iyeness" in connection with efforts being made i'm that state 10 secure tho adoption Of a new child labor law
 "If the new bill, for which peu tions have just been filed with tho secretary of state is passed by vote of the people in September Arkansas will be the first state in the union to secure a child labor law under the initiative and referendum declarch Mir. McKelway. "The 20,000 signatures 10 the petition for the new law, o5- tained during a brief campaign in April. in which the national commit tee co-operated with the state fedora tion Of labor and the womens ubs is a noteworthy expression of the broad public spirit or the Arkansas people.
 "The new law will place Arkansas in the forefront among the most ad vanced states of the south and the ma tiOl '