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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15

HIH Uy q ttLnper
n c society and social = welfare or
g~anization in districts where a drink
is a difficult thing for a person on the
streets to get except in saloons and
soda emporiums. The contrivance is
of the bubbling-cup type and drains
through a waste pipe into a gutter adj
jacent to the plug to which it Is at
tached.-Popular Mechanics Maya
zine.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15
One Word More.

Father" said the small son of a
clergyman, "you told a story this
morning when you were preaching" '
"Why, what do you mean?" asked
the good man in surprise.
"Well," answered the small observ-
er. "after you said One word more and
] have finished you went On preaching
for another half hour"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15
GAS, DYSPEPSIA
AND INDIGESTION
"Pape's Diapepsin" settles sour,
gassy stomachs in five
minutes-Time it!

You don't want q slow remedy when
your stomach is bad-or an uncertain
one-or a harmful one-your stomach
n too valuable; you mustn't injure 1t.
Pape's Diapepsin lie noted for its
speed in giving relief; its harmless
ness; it's certain unfailing action In
regulating sick, sour, gnssy stomachs.
It's millions of cures in indigestion,
dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach
trouble has made It famous the world
over.
Keep this, perfect stomach doctor in
your home-keep 1t handy-get a large
fifty.cent case from any dealer and
then II anyone should eat something
which doesn't agree with them; II
what they eat lays like lead. ferments
and sours and forms gas: causes head
ache, dizziness and nausea; eructa-
lions Of acid and undigested food
remember as soon as Pape's Diapepsin
comes in contact with the stomach all
such distress vanishes. Its prompt
ness, certainty and ease in overcoming
the worst stomach disorders is a reve-
lation to those who try it.-Adv.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15
AT WESTINGHOUSE TOMB

Where rhododendrons browse and willows
weep.
And frail forget-me-nots their charms
reveal;
Through moss and foliage, making mute
appeal;
Where sapphire waters, purling. coil and
creep,
And evermore a murmurous vigil keep;
Where elegies through leafy arches steal,
Chanted by birds the lordly oaks conceal;
A king, unerowned, is throned in dream
less sleep.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15

was built by Augustine Washington
also. Here baby George no doubt rode
on the back Of the pillow horses and
climbed into the farm wagons just as
country boys do today. But in 1880
a fire destroyed the house and Angus
tine moved down to another plantation
Of his near Fredericksburg, Va. This
place was known as Pine Grove.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15

nave Deeu III.
stalled at a num-
Der Of places in
Rochester and
New York city
for the benefit of
pedestrians. The
device is an in
yention of an
employee Of the
department Of
public works OF
the former city
and is being in
stalled in Goth
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15
Sure Of Anything.

One day small Willie was given n
piece OF ghad for dinner. what kind
Of a fish is this, mammal he asked.
"Shad," replied his mother.
SWELL" said Willie, "a shad must
be sure of anything when he feels It In
his bones"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15
Reflection.

First Professor-Do. you think the
study Of Greek a necessity?
Second Professor-Well. I know OF
several young men who have not
learned II who have grown up and
raised families. but I can't say I ap-
prove of them.-Judge.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15
Quick Cash u

The product of the farm can be more
quickly turned into cash through the
dairy thnn by any other means.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15
Decidedly Queer.

Observant Kiddy-"Oh, look at that
funny man. mother. He's sitting on
the sidewalk talking to a banana-peel |"
Grit.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15
Separator Saves Much.

A million tons Of butter and over
have been saved to dnirymen since the
Introduction of the cream separator.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15
Treat Cow Kindly.

The better the COW the more nervous
she is. It follows that the better the
cow the more kindly she should be
treated. ..-
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15

A mans idea Of love Is n hour
on duty and the rest Of the % of.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15
DRINKING FOUNTAIN FOR CITY
Are Attached to Fire Hydrants, and
Have Been Installed In Promi.
q. nent Eastern Places

Sanitary drinking fountains de-
signed to be attached to fire hydrants
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15
non,t Formed Mol. 2. Either.

Don't FoFVet NO. z, EIther.
Hook-When a woman loses her hus-
band she has to look out for number
one.
Nye-And / suppose she does that
By looking out for number two.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15

Whether 1t Is harmless gossip or dan
gerous scandal often depends upon the
fellow who Is talking.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15
Not Far Wrong

NOT Fdf wrong.
"Wot's nm autycrat, Chimmie?"
ITS a guy wot owns an automo-
bile"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15

Doing His Share.
"Are you doing anything for the
preservation Of our antiquities?"
"You bet I am. I sell cosmetics"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-15
Oh, thou. the foremost of thy country

On, Thou, the FOREMOST OF Thy countrys
brave,
Resting serenely in this garden spot;
Who to the nation glorious service gave;
Whose splendid deeds shall never be
forgot;
We view with reverence, thy quiet grave.
And kiss. with tears. the pure fornstme.not.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-05

that it would not only take a person of .superhuman strength physically to carry them out, but person of encyclO- pedic learning condensed to the limit.
 This officer must have a competent knowledge of agriculture. manufactur- ing and general Industries, commerce, chemistry and publicity. He is also charged with the work of looking to the promotion of agriculture r1anufac- turing and other industries, cattle rais- ing and all matters tending to indus trial development of the state; with the collection and publication of in- formation in regard to localities. char acter and accessibility, cost and modes of utilization of soils, and more specifl- cally to the inducen1ent of capital by the dissemination of information rela- tive to the advantages of soil and cli- mate. and the natural resources and in- dustrial opportunities offered in that state. He must be an animated statfsti- cal bureau for collecting from farmers -fnfQrmation as. to lands. stating the number of acres, location and the term s upon which they may be bought. He
 must tkeep .a land registry. and in con- nection herewith, from time to time. publication shall be: made descriptive or such listed agricultural, mineral. forest, trucking. lands and factory sites as may be offered to the department for sale or share, which publication shall be in attractive form, setting forth the county, township, / number of acres. names and addresses of ownefs-and such other information as may be help full in placing fnquiring homeseekers Tn n munication with landowners. sponsibility for the enforcement of the child labor law in something like 2,o00
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manufacturing establishments. When the exhaustive, list of. duties has been fulfilled it can readily be imagined where the children will suffer.
 The children's bureau of the Depart
 ment of Labor has not only been far and child welfare of the present gen. eration, but has been farseeing in it's plans for resulting good to those who will come later. The new child labor
 work The young woman who has been placed at the head of. it Is one whose lifeworK has been spent along the practical lines, knowledge, of which will go far toward. making. the enforcement of the new federal law a success. -ts 7-'''' '.s.a This woman is Miss Grace Abbdtt of Chicago, who brings to the work a broad experience in industrial matters.
 both in this country and abroad; ex-
 ecutive ability of a high order. and an interested and compelling influence over those with whom she comes in
 contact. For month or more before the law went into effect sfre was at ton of the division, with a stan Of temporary assistants. in order that there might be no delay in enforcing the law. The permanent assistants ing a competitive examination an Child welfare = , 1 Miss Abbott lived for many years in an Industrial neighborhood and was resident of Hull House. Chicago, for seven years She has visited Europe repeatedly to observe industrial com , eatIons, especially in countries from Which immi igration has been large fin recent years. Since 1903 she has been actively engaged in work> on industrial migrants. part of the time as execu- tiFe secretary of the MasSachusett6 in1-
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commerce of the product of manufac- turing establishment or of a mine or quarry in .the United States in which, within thirty days prior to the removal of the product from such estab- have. been employed contrary to the following provisions: First, no , child. under fourteen to be em- pioyed at any time in any mill. cannery, workshep, factory or manufacturing es- the ages of fourten and sixteen years 70 De employed in establishments speci- ned in the first provision for more than eignt hours in any day, or more than
 and ann; third. no child under sixteen 10 De employed at any time in any mine or quarry.
 The Attorney General, the Secretary of commerce, and the Secretary of Labor constitute board to make regulations
 Tor carrying out the provisions of this act The problem of enforcement is complicated and inadequate; provisions
 Tn many states have had a tendency to Irus,racs rus, the very purpose for which In six states child labor laws have been passed which do not call for the appointment of an enforcing official; ana tne result is wholesale violation of the need of such enforcement to the extent of providing one official with a clerk. to administer the labor law, to collect and publish manufacturing and agricultural statistics and to perform other varied and numerous duties which render it impo ssible to do jus i tice to the work, the result is. that neither the -spirn- nor the letter of the law is fulfilled. t.@l
 sections of the Jaw setting forth the qualifications Of the commissioner of taDorsGare so varied and complicated
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-05

1attons of France was as,5oe,eee.-At the present time the military force is esti- compiled at s5.5oo.0oo. The annual death rate before the war. based upon
 72s.oee to 775.ooo annually. the birth
 In 1916. however. figuring upon the
 risen to 7oc,ooo. While S during the same
 psried the births had fallen to but sI2.ooa.. In the military establishment for the year, making a total mortality
 for the. year of 100000. as against
 312.0oo births. The discrepancy is 7ss.- o00 more deaths than births in a single year In Paris aIone.; where 4s.917 babies. were born for the year ending August 1, 1914, during the subsequent wassbut 26.17s. Not only did pr. Lucas make an in vestigation in France before the unit was sent there. but his work in Bel general conditions among the children
 April, 1916. MT. Hoover asked pr. Lucas to make survey of the health conditions in Belgium. For more than two years the commission for relief people. and he desired to learn just what the consequent state of health
 in which pr. Lucas accomplished his task is wildly told by Mrs Lucas. She Said:
 He travelled over the occupied terri tory of Belgium, watched, listened and examined. studied records, talked with doctors, collected evidence, saw babies in cahteeus, saw long lines of hungry kfddies waiting for soup He went to
 hospitals and schools, to orphanages and homes"
 Dr. Lucas report showed that while conditions were extremely bad, under
 the circumstances they were far from
 what might have been expected
 Suffering chiI dren had become blind. deaf or lost their reason; while a continually increasing or actual tubercular conditions And what conditions were in Belgium then, they are in France today. Added to this is the great lack of food and sufficient clothing. It is the great army of half clad, .haH-starved babies and children which is the most gripping tragedy of the war-the awful price being paid by the innocents.
 In Belgium the situation of insufficient
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Then through the air sang huge shell and a deafening report. The child brought to the hospital had had one leg blown off at the thigh.
 It is to meet such a need that the American Red Cross sent to France the infant welfare unit, made up of physi- and nurses: The project Is being financed by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam of Bos. ton, sister Of Dr. Lowell, president of Harvard. who Is an enthusiast in the
 The unit will give such immediate aid is possible to eradicate disease and alleviate undernourishment among the children of France. At the same time 1t will make general survey of condf- tions and lay the foundation of a system which will be nationwide in it's scope and will be carried on by units to fol- low this one.
 France is to have a better baby cam paign, such as has placed the United States in the forefront of those nations bies, something which at present is un- known by both physicians and the moth CTS of France.
 Several weeks ago Maj. Grayson M. Cross commission now in France, cabled: There is a crying need for effective work among children and it is this call which the infant welfare unit will strive to respond to.
 Men specially adapted for the partic- ular work ahead were chosen to make up the personnel of the unit to- gether with several women who are well known here for their work among children Dr. William F. Lucas. who heads the unit, is professof of pediat- rics at the University of California, having been called there from Harvard. Not only has Dr. Lucas done much ex- perimenta1 work in immunity an infan- ten extensively upon those subjects, but he was with Herbert c. Hoover in Bel
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food was met by the establishment of canteens; canteens for tiny babies. where ing boys and girls, where a supplemental meal was given them, and canteens TOT
 expsctant mothers; where they too' re- *
 The sending of the infant welfare unit to France grew out of a conference Of committee of the American Pediatric As sociation with Herbert c. Hoover and physicians who had worked in Belgium. A committee was named at the request of Mir. Hoover to consider the situation and possible methods of dealing with it. The committee was composed of Dr. Fritz Talbot of Boston. Dr: Samuel L. Hammil
 of Philadelphia pr: "; F; Lucas sisr1of;s or B0s-
 Dr. Sedgwick Is a member Of the Ameri-
 can Pediatric Associa ton and chairman
 tn the Al American Medical Association which it was determined to inaugurate unit which sailed for France a short time ago was the first step in that
 gigantic campaign; The unit 1itnl ranks t5s physicians having commissions in the United States army.
 Just before leaving Dr., Dr: sedgwtGfk tts tf;e i dren and give France a bigger chance to every hamlet. We will teach the mother and try to give every child di- rect and continuous medical attention. The work will have to extend beyond the war;
 But perhaps the most graphic picture of what lies ahead of the men and women who have braved the danger of war and disease in order that they may save innocent children, was given by Mrs. Lucas, when she said: This particular work for children will of necessity have many sides, m edi- cal and surgical first. But also the children must be taught once more to work and laugh and play, to forget the sound of big guns and not be afraid" The method in which France is han ding the situation was told by native of France-one who has seen condi- tions there since the war, and has but recently come to this country
 France is too proud of her place in the world, too conscious of the require
 ments of the future of her race, not to have taken steps regarding her chil-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-05

nurses were secured for the babies, and suitable food provided. A system now has been established to care for these children which includes supplies for recreation, education and vocational training, and the Red Cross staff in charge of the work has been increased in expectation that 400 or" 5e0 more children will be placed in its care
 An automobile came into a. French town in the Amiens section just evacuated by the Germans. In it were American nurses, come to care for the children, to remove them to place a short distance away, where they could be properly cared for.
 And where were they, these little ones
 From everywhere, apparently, came a dull monotonous sound, a grooming noise. It came from "the caves" Some babies there were, two years old. who had never seen the light of day It was feared they into the light Some there were whose minds had become blank result of plosions or flying spiinters Convuisions brought on by inhaled gas had left many crippled. In the dead of night the help less children were taken from their aw- full refuge, and, in long, limping line, taken to a place of security and care.
 
 There is an incident told by a French man in this country:
 It was early in the war, and he was serving in his native town with the Amer ican Ambulance Corps. For many weary hours the wounded had continued to be brought in. It was late at night, he was tired to the point of exhaustion. Among the last to be brought in was tiny sol dier, surely ba by, he was so small Yet his hat of red, his uniform and, his gun proclaimed him to be soldier. Finally investigation showed that the soldier was but lad of eleven He had been playing; play uniform and gun of wood.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-05
Special Correspondence

AorTeSDC0nence
 WASHINGTON, D. C.,
 RN order that the federal child labor
 law, which went into effect Septem- II Der 1, may reap the full benefit of
 its intent to the millions of children fin the United Saes who are engaged in gntnful occupations. the Secretary of La Dor has caused to be created a new di- vsion of the chiIdren's bureau, delegated 10 enforce the law.
 With the entrance of the wal into it's fourth year and the uneeasing prepara- tions still going forward. which are swallowing up billions of dollars, Great Britain, France. Belgium and Germany have found that in spite of the woefui need of economy along every line. now boiled down to the last dregs there must be no economy exercised when it comes to the care Of babies. young children and mothers These are the bulwarks upon wdhlch the warning nations must rest after the carnage has ceased and normal conditions most be re-establtshed
 
 The United States has awakened to A realization that the strengthening and extending of preventive work already established for the welfare of young children is paramount now that the country is in war and that everything along these lines must be done for the upbuilding of more united people after the war. when new blood will take up the burdens which must inevitably rest upon it.
 Vital to the upbuilding of this new generation is the federal child labor Law enacted by Congress. This law for bids inc s1ft,T,-r t-,
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gium, and was the originator of the save a Belgian baby" movement fn that country. i
 Dr. J. Morris Slemons, who accom- diseases of women at the Yale Medical School, and graduate of Johns Hop kins. He ranks as enc of the best known obstetricians in this country. and has written many books on allied subjects which are considered authori- ties upon the subjects of which they treat Dr. Julius P. Sedgwick, another member of the unit. is professor of pediatrics at the University of Min- nesota, and is well known for his, work in physiological chemistry. He has studied abroad and is among the most prominent children's physicians in the United States. Accompanying their husbands are Mrs. Lucas and, Mrs. Sle- specialists. Other physicians and mern>- bers of the party are Dr. John c. Bald win, specialist in the diseases of chfl- dren; Dr. Clain F. Ge1ston, Dr. Lucas mia; Dr. N. O. Pearce. another special ist; Miss Elizabeth Ashe and Miss Rosamond Glider, daughter of the poet.
 Recently. compiled statistics give ample proof of the seriousness of con- ditions among the children of France. Even before the war alarm was felt. The birth rate so nearly equaled the death rate that fear for the future was voiced by scientists. Last year, how ever, conditions had become even more alarming Deaths were reported to have risen to 20 per 1000, not including 8 deaths in the military service. Against this was an average of but approxi@ maJely 8 births per 1000.
 Prior to the war the estimated popu-
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to Enforce Child Labor Law


miaration commission, and more re-
 gently as director of . the Immigrants
 Tn northern and western Hungary and |Cracow Miss Abbott lived among the vironment and religious and social conditions which had bearing on their daily lives, thus making 1f easier
 places to learn to readjust themselves
 to conditions in America. when studying the districts in Ga1icia, northern Hungary and Croatia, she, in company with the village priest. visited
 the people in their homes, went to the parish church where they worshiped, to the public square where their amuse- ments were carried on and to the fields where they worked long hours of the day.
 However, Miss Abbott studied other and deeper psychological forces which bore upon the question. She says: At esuue, for the fields were gay with the bright peasant costumes of the girls,
 the ss ass had flowers in the queer little windows. But there was nothing picturesque about the dirt floors. the absence of chimneys that all the water had to be carried
 When it was dark most of the popula- Ttien. gathered in the village sauars, cents for the days work. I followed them into, the little church for the ves- tient, tired faces of these girls, I under stood why it was that they could not start for America until letters had come
 vt n stne them tickets from the Galician , vll..-.s- -.- -I,s 4il the United States where a brother or sister or a friend is | already established. I understood, too, why. when the tickets came. they would
 start. without hesitating at the dan gers they might meet on the Journey or the possibility that failure might await them at the other end"
 Knowing types of immigrants as she
 does. Miss Abbott has been able to liu-
 namely and intslligently help them to tn heIn here and to adjust themselves to 2 nsw life. She has studied and investi-
 little chiidren of America labor. has ae at-
 helped them to solve the definition of of
 did not literally flow with milk and Fhoneya Good citizenship to her knows
 sIei ther creed nor nationality. It is just
 In assuming the dihcdlt task which confropts her in the enforcement of
 the federal child labor law she brings
 tutionAl and administrative law, in
 school of tho Chicago University. She
 university in social economies, and a
 B. A.. from the University of Nebraska
 her native state. When the federal child
 labor law went into effect Miss Abbott was in, North Carolina in the federal
 court when Judge Boyd rendered his opinion on the unconstitutfonality of the law, This decision will be the ve- hic1e for bringing the question before the Supreme Court of the United States F. As an aid to the children's bureau in Fthe enfofeement of the child labor law; he>fwomeSi.s committee of the Council of National Defense has just issued an appeal osal1 women who wish to help
 American youth in war time. urging them. to see that all children under fourteep are enrolled in school and ask