Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-18
humane SOCIETY VOICES PLEA FOR
BIGGER Child WELFARE WORK HERE
Need of Girls Detention Home
and Home for the Feeble
Minded Pointed Out


Enlistment OF detention home for
children, was voiced at the annual
( meeting Of the Humane Society III a
( report read BIZ Mrs. L. l.. McCandless,
president
/ The report, in full, is as follows
Fellow Workers, Ladies and Gen
/ tlemen The past year has been one
Of intense activity for humane work.
/ ers throughout the civilized world
| Just half century has elapsed since
/ Henry Bergh founded the first Amer
! lean Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals and the fortieth
/ annual convention OF the American
Humane Association is being held to-
at this moment-in Cincinnati,
Ohio: This has been a memorable
year in humane work An International
Child Welfare League has been form
ed and committees are to be appoint
ed in each European country, the
chaiTmen of these national groups TO
constitute central international coun-
ell. The great need of concerted ac-
ton in child welfare work can best
be appreciated when we consider the
appalling mortality among :. young
I children. To quote from the Ma
uonal Humane Review, figures taken
from the Child's Guardian, London,
England, striking report can center
our attention on such need Accord
ing to the return OF the registrar gen.
eral for the year 1913, the number
CT children under FIVE years of age
who died was 140.e57. and of these 95,
Cos did not live one year. In our
own islands with population of
about $4,000, the mortality of chill
dren under five years Of age for the
year 1856 was 1872 OF this number
1859 did not survive one year. This
is AZ IL per cent of the total num-
Der of deaths.
From latest report of the Board of
Health:
Hawaii has had high infant NOR
tally rate that has long been a pub
lie health problem. The large num-
Der of deaths under one year is evi.
dent and suggests the inquiry into the
causes of death which may be COM
mented upon in the following tables
figures which I have just quoted
AZ IL per cent of the total number
of deaths-children under 8 years.
Here certainly is field for Child
Welfare work. What shall we do to
improve conditions?
What is known as the Federal Child
Labor bill recently passed by Con-
gress and signed by President Wilson
is perhaps the greatest recognition of
the importance of child welfare ever
put into effect 1t reads in part: No
producer, manufacturer or dealer
shall ship or deliver for shipment in
interstate commerce the product Of any
mine or quarry situated in the Unit
ed States which has been produced
in whole or in part by the labor of
children under sixteen years or the
product of any mill, cannery, work
shop, factory or manufacturing estab-
iishment situated in the United States
which has been produced in whole
or in part by the labor of children
under the age of fourteen years or by
the labor of children between the ages
of fourteen years and sixteen years
who work more than eight hours in
any one day or more than six days in
any one week or after the hour of
O'Clock, post meridian, or before the
hour CT o'clock, anti meridian.
Two bills introduced in Congress,
which provided for the creation of
board of FIVE censors to pass upon all
motion picture films used in inter
state business, were defeated but the
effort shows a step in the right direc-
ticn. Last year cur society did much
active work for the improvement of
this valuable factor in the child's edu-
cation and this year number of la
dies have organized to cooperate in
the presentation of only good films.
Again returning to the subject of
animal welfare, We are pleased to note
that on May %, 1916, the Honorable
Newton ID. Baker, our secretary OF
war, invited the American Humane AS
sociation to develop and work for the
relief of sick and injured army ami
mails, similar to that carried on by
the Red Cross for the United States
soldiers, with the result that a body
Of workers, composed of committees
from anti-cruelty societies to be called
DIduCHeS OF the AIucItCdu lCu OldA
Animal Relief, has been organized and
methods Of procedure will be one of
the important subjects discussed at
the convention now in session.
Having touched upon some OF the
subjects Of general importance, let us
now review our own work for the year.
You will remember that at our last
annual meeting we urged that mesns
he provided that our humane agent,
who at that time was Miss Lucy
Ward, be given an assistant. We sin
oerely thank the community for It's
generous response. Mrs. Irmgard FL
cir was appointed such able assist
ant and served with Miss Ward until
the latter's resignation took effect on
June 1, when Mrs. Elgin was appoint
ed humane agent and Mr. Horace
Crabbe was made assistant agent. The
appreciation of the noble service rem
dered the society by Miss Ward was
partially expressed by the society's
making her an honorary humane agent