Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-05-11

governing Stree[ lTdulIlg ny children" he said. In the other states no provisions are of great variety, though some have followed the usual custom of copying the law of some other commonwealth without much thought as to whether or not it's provisions were adequate.
 "Kentucky has established the best and most logical standard in this coun- lrv for both boys and girls in thls work. the age limit for boys being fourteen and for girls eighteen years, sor all kinds of street trading in the cities, moulding newspaper selling This seems logical because 1t IS the general standard for boys in other common forms of employment and or girls the propriety of the higher age limit of eighteen years will hard be questioned by any one. Boys lnder sixteen years of age are not per nitted to work at night, which also corresponds to the restrictions of the ordinary child labor law.
 "The actual number of newsboys in New York City is decreasing as shown by the records of the Newsboys' Home Club out of whose 5000 mem 0ers there are now only about twenty i've who sell papers regularly.
 Tn Colorado the only restriction ap- llies to girls under ten years of age, who are prohibited from engaging Tn thy business or occupation in street or tlley, there being no interference whatever with the sacred right of )oys to exploit themselves in the city streets.
 Tn Utah the age limit for selling | newspapers is twelve years for boys md sixteen years for girls, but for l ;ome unaccountable reason, bootblack- ng is tacitly approved as an occupa- l ion for little girls by a reduction ot he limit for them to twelve years.
 "New Hampshire's law shows an other curious inconsistency in that ;irls under sixteen must not sell any newspapers or merchandise, but girls )f ten may work as bootblacks. Delaware prohibits boys under F md girls under If from selling news ,apers in cities, but fixes no age limit whatever for either sex as far as the ,ther kinds of work are concerned.
 Florida is similarly careless, for she attempts to regulate only news paper selling with an age limit of 10 years for boys and sixteen years for girls.
 "New Jersey provides regulations for street trading for children be- tween ten and sixteen, but fails to fix my minimum age limit, consequently children under ten are legally not even subject to the regulations that | .pply to the older ones.
 New York contributes her full Iuota to the confusion, for in that big tate an itinerant bootblack who goes about the streets with his own kit ;lung across his shoulder, may legal | y work any number of hours daily 1 rom infancy up, while a bootblack yho works iii ''shine parlor" must )e at least fl years of age; the age init for newspaper selling is F years and for peddling is 16 years. It sure would be difficult to devise a more inconsistent set of regulations.
 oklahoma declares that girls under
 ixteen shall not sell newspapers, but 1 says nothing about other street trades TOT anything at all about boys.
 "The Virginia boys under ten and l girls under sixteen must not sell any newspapers, but at fourteen years of lge girls may peddle any kind of goods n the streets to their hearts content
 The tale of three cities that are earning how to work well together trough the establishment of com non civic center, was told by Ray nond A. Hover director of the Fri City Social Center, LaSalle, III. He said in part:
 "The possibility of civic cooperation between small cities located advan- -ageously may be demonstrated by he work accomplished in the tri- | yities-LaSalle, Peru and Oglesby, III These three cities are in close prox mity to each other and embrace an aggregate population of about 2S,000 f which nearly half are Polish, Lithu- lnians, Slovenian and Italian
 Moreover, the tri-cities are typical industrial and mining communities, in 1 -l,; ol, l.. I |.