Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-09-08

A. J. McKelway, director OF the Bureau OF Education and Social
Service at Washington, has recently addressed the following statement
to OF the leading magazines OF the east:
The writer has been watching the Great Game in Washington dur
ing three administrations President Roosevelt did all he could with
reform the District of Columbia Child Labor bill and the Federal In
vestgauon OF the Conditions OF Women and Child WageEarners. He
failed to put ovr the ChHdrcns Bureau. In President Tafts first half
term IA created the Bureau OF Mines. But it vas not until Cannonsm
was destroyed by the election OF a Democratic house in 1910 that it va
possible % secur the creation OF the Childrens Bureau, the DepartA
. u" ,Io.oh pLa.aho-"s I,r aad tha tbrs ,ars u.1;nn ,n o;rht bow
Social workers remember the Standards Of Living and labor Of the
Cleveland Conference OF Charities and Correction. They we're taken
platform OF 1912 President Wilson wa elected on a platform dealing
mainly with economic issues. The economic program has been practc-
wasted IN hhOusterns every plank IN nj SOCIAL justice platform OF te
Progressive party has been carried out, or is in process OF enactment
the nw program OF social justice ont,ned 'r Ires1dent WILSON'S second
term. Social justice measures passed II pending during this admins
tration are: The Seannan's act, Bureau of Labor Safety, Prison Labor,
Education, Industrial Education, Workmen's Compensation for Federal
Employees, Compensation for Railroad Employees, Cost OF Living Inquiry
to Determine Mmmu Wage TO- ONE IN ue District OF CoIuno'a,
Model Juvenile Court bill for the District, Minimum Wage for Federal
Employees, Federal Child Labor act; while appropriations tor the Child
ren's Bureau, the Bureau OF Mines, the Bureau Of Education and the
Public Health Service, have been increased manifold Federal employ
men agencies are sending workers to their jobs, the Departments OF
Labor, Agriculture and Postoftce cooperating.
The passage OF the Federal Child Labor bill, in whose behalf the
president sc effectively INTERVIEWED, signing, the other day a Second
Emancipation Proclamation" establishes the principle OF the Use OF the
power OF congress ove interstate commerce to standardize industrial
conditions throughout the nation.
With his economic program completed, with the republic at peace.
with a majority OF congress in full sympathy with his aims with advisers
have a opportunity, unprecedented in American history, Tor the study
and solution Of the problems OF Human welfare. Mr.. Hughes would
have to thre,h out again the old economic and commercial questions Of
tariff and currency and naturalization OF railways hrst and would hnd
when he reached the problems that concern us social workers most
of the important commttees Of the senate with WHOM president o
welt had to contend. who voted recently in solid phalanN against the
appointment OF Justice Brandes to the Supreme COURT
In the accomplishment of all the above measures which means SO
much to the workers, women and children Of the nation, President VIII
son has had both the counsel and support OF Senator Key Fittman. Ne
vada women should never forget that fact, unless they are opposed to
the progress or humanity avs