The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-05-12
And It Appears That Sales OF
Newspapers Are Very Much
Disseminated Against.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. May H.
Discussion OF children's societies, in
dustrial hygiene. Juvenile courts
street trades regulation. small com
munities, public health nurses, ant
other civic and sociological topics To-
day engaged the attention OF the dele
gates to the National Conference o.
Charities and Correction.
Edward \. Chopper, Phi. D., northern
secretary OF the national child labor
committee. New York City, submitted
paper on street Trades Regulation.
'In twenty-eight states Of the unior
there is no law governing street trad.
ing by children" he said. In the
other states the 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 moi
its provisions were adequate.
:" Kentucky has established the best
and most logical standard in this coun.
try for both boys and girls in this
work at night. which also corresponds
fourteen and for girls eighteen years
for all kinds of street trading in cities
including newspaper selling. This
seems logical because 1t is the general
standard for boys in other common
forms of employment and for girls
the propriety of the higher age limit
of eighteen years will hardly be cues.
toned by any one. Boys under six
teen years of age are not permitted to
wor kat 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 members
there are now only about twenty-five
who sell papers regularly.
I'm Colorado the only restriction
applies to girls under ten years Of age,
who are prohibited from engaging in
any business or occupation in street
or alley, there being no interference
whatever with The sacred right OF boys
to exploit themselves in the city
streets.
IN Utah the age limit for selling
newspapers is twelve years for boys
and sixteen years for girls, but for
some unaccountable reason, bootblack-
ing Is tacitly approved as an occupa-
ton for little girls by reduction OF
The limit for them to twelve years.
Curious Inconsistency.
New Hampshire's law shows an
other curious inconsistency in that
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newspapers nor merchandise. but girls
Of ten may work as bootblacks.
Delaware prohibits boxs under
twelve and girls under fourteen from
selling newspapers in cities, but fixes
no age limit whatever for either sex
so far as other kinds OF street work
are concerned.
FLORIDA Is similarly careless, for |,
attempts to regulate only newspaper
selling with an age limit Of ten years
for boys and sixteen years for girls.
New Jersey provides regulations
for street trading for children between
ten and sixteen, but fails to fix any
minimum age limit, consequently chill
dren under ten are legally not even
subject to the regulations that apply
to the older ones.
New York contributes Its full
quota to the confusion. for In that
state an itinerant bootb'ack who
goes about the streets with his own
kit slung over his shoulder, may le-
gally work any number OF hours
daily from infancy up. while a boot
black who works in a shine parlor'
must be at least fourteen years Of
age; the age limit for newspa per
selling Is twelve years. and for ped
ding is sixteen years. It would he
difficult to devise more inconsistent
set of regulations.
oklahoma declares that girls I'M
der sixteen must not sell newspapers,
but says nothing about the street
trades nor anything at all about
boys. ..*
THE Virginia boys under ten and
girls under sixteen must not sell
newspapers, but at fourteen years Of
age girls may peddle any kind Of
goods to their hearts content"
The tale of three cities that are
learning how to work we'll together
through the establishment Of a COM