Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-08-19

igns of the sea white winged yachts,
pleasure loving passenger boats, the
United States Battleships floating in
a dazzling midday sea or drifting
drearily to the warning of the fog
horns at evening.
The zone is the street of amusement
as suggested by the names, its fea-
lures are of various entertainment
Japan Beautiful the Ostrich Farm,
Neptune's Daughters, Creation, Pan
anna Canal and others.
Palace of Education and Social
Economy
This building has an extent of near
ly five acres and cost three hundred
four thousand two hundred sixty five
dollars. The architecture Of the half
dome in Roman, the facades are a COM
bination of Byzantine and Spanish Re
naissance. Gustave Gerlack, Charles
Piers and Cesare Stea, contributed to
the relief panel on Education; Ralph
Stackpole, to the Portal of Thought"
and Youth, Albert Weinert, "Philo-
sophy." The exhibits denote in what
lines each state excells. New York
demonstrates the worth of centralized
control: Wisconsin, the value of mo-
ton pictures in the pedagogy of civil
engineering; Oregon, her rural schools
Argentina, France, China, Japan and
Cuba, feature in their displays.
caraway, and horse mint. 1t is clos
ly related to carbolic acid. More
than one half million children were
examined for hook-worm disease in
eleven southern states. Two sut of
every five were infected More than
on and one half million persons of all
ages in eleven southern states were
examined. One out of every three
in rural communities in the south,
were infected.
The tubercular germ has vitality
from twelve days to three years in
ordinary living rooms. 1t lives in or
binary road dust for a period of sew
en- months Medical science agrees
that consumption germs are not
transmitted from generation TO gen
Grafton, but living and housing con
ditions determine its course. The
race needs plenty of light. air and ex-
ercise, neither over nor under feed
ing
The decline in the death rate from
typhoid fever in Pennsylvania, shows
what that state has accomplished
The welfare of the school child is
treated upon. Defective eyesight,
hearing, teeth, breathing in some To-
calities is determined by medical au-
thorities and the child given a fair
chance in life The light area of the
school room should be twenty per
cent of the floor space, at least.
Sanitary engineering provides for
proper care of summer camps. Cities
dependent upon the use of water sup
piled from rivers are urged to filter
/ the same.
The National Consumers League of
New York, makes one fourth of all
the paper boxes made in the United
States. The wages of women who
make them are; "A per cent girls UNI
der Is yrs, less than $500 per week
55.5 per cent women, earn less than
500 per week.
On the census of eighteen hundred
fifty, two hundred twenty five thous-
and nine hundred twenty two children
were engaged in gainful labor. In
the census of nineteen hundred ten
over eight million children were EN-
ployed. Every child should work, but
work must develope, not deaden. In
stalling machinery TO save child labor
brings greater returns to the employ
err. "A child-labor adult is a human
being whose efficiency as a workman
has been ruined by premature work
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in the streets until midnight, learn
to be gamblers simply because of en-
vironment.
An exhibition of dust particles on
fibres of substances which, unless the
laborer is protected from, may enter
the lungs, is shown.
Child labor laws should make age
limit for children's work fourteen
years with higher age limit for dan.
gerous work The Palmers Federal
Child Labor Law makes these provi
sions, but it is law in theory, not
in effect. Children under fourteen
years may be employed in New York
Utah, New Mexico, North Carolina