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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
THE following statements are quot
ed from the ''Health Manual of
New York Citvv nllhlished hv

ed from the "Health Manual of
New York City" published by
the Public Health Section of the Council
of Organizations for War Service at 4
East Thrty-ninth Street.
The labor law (Article 6, Sections 20
and II, and Article II, Section 1917
prohibits children under fourteen from
working. Exceptions are made in the
case of newsboys and stage children
(see page 27).
Children over IA may leave school
and go to work if in possession of en-
ployment certificates which are obtained
from the Board of Health, providing the
following conditions are conformed to:
The child must apply with parent or
guardian at the local Board of Health
and present:
t) Statutory proof of age, j. e., birth
certificate, baptismal certificate or pass
port. Failing these, other documentary
proof of age satisfactory to the board.
II no age proof can be produced a physi-
cal examination by two physicians is the
last resort
% II between IA and 10 wears of
age, certificate of graduation from the
elementary school; if between / 5 and l6.
school record signed by the principal
certifying to the completion of the sixth
grade by the applicant In either case
a statement by the principal that the ap-
pllcant has attended school regularly for
at least 1870 days during the preceding
twelve months.
CD He must pass a reading test. and
IS required to undergo a thorough physi
cal examination to determine his or her
physical fitness for employment )
Once working papers are secured, the
child may work in any line of employ
ment not specifically prohibited by Sec
ton SO OF the labor law This section.
although the list Of prohibited occupa-
tons seems extensive, as a matter Of
fact falls far below the laws of MANY
other states, and concerns chiefly the
use of minors at power machines New
Jersey has. perhaps. the most compre-
hensive prohibtive list, and is the only
state forbdding children to work under
conditions involving eye-strain.
The number of hours that children
between IA and l6 can work is limited
to eight hours a day, six days week.
and they may not work before s d. m. and
after p. m. in factories, nor before a
m. and after p. m. in mercantile estab-
hshments. There is no regulation of
working hours of boys over 16, except
those employed in factories. Boys under
u employed as messengers for tele-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

L<ENENER thought tina I should
laugh again
4 French munition worker,
dressed, as arc the majority Of the girls
at the Foyer, in trousers soaked and
stained With oil, rippled into another
Til Of infectious laughter
1t was only a plate twirling on the
floor that had aroused the spirit of fun
IN the roonful Of French girls, mature
women and srandmothcrs. Most of
them were refugees. Many had not
heard from their families since the first
months of the war All were worn from
four years of hardship and anxiety, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
w omen
Spiritual Depredations Are the Most
Hideous of Atrocities-and
Endure for Generations

embittered by them until too late.
There is something more than
pathos in that scene of French girl
in her teens facing a Gallo jury on
the charge Of murder The Hun had
overridden her. It was his prog
eny that she was forced to bring
into the world And looking at the
offspring the great horror of it
burst upon her simple mind. What
blood was in it's veins? Might she
live to see it in another generation
yielding to Hun arguments, betray
ing France, running the women of
tomorrow even as it's father had
ruined her? In her anger she killed
it. And proudly she stood before
the tribunal Of justice, even as Char
lotte Corday had stood, waiting for
the verdict. Is there ''higher law"
as was invoked when in the letter
of the written law Southern states
men found excuse to justify seces-
sion? a ''higher law" which would
pardon even murder in such cir
cumstances The jury evidently
thought so, but the jury could
merely free the woman. It could
not give her back ''the immediate
jewel of her soul"
1t Means
Spiritual Murder
That French girl typified woman
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

Army have thrown their energies and
resources into a great united effort to
raise funds which shall provide our men
and women fighters with cheer and com.
fort. During the week Of November IL
these organizations hope to raise Sl70,-
100000 in united war work campaign.
and every human being in this country
Who is back Of those who have given up
the comforts of home to go into the hell
of No Mans Land or of a munitions
plant, every man or woman who goes
home at night to demi-tasse and a
cushioned chair, who sees through the
peace notes and abdication rumors sent
out by Germany, can help to clear OBJ
structions from the road to Berlin BY
personally backing that S170,50O 900.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

hood the world over What one Him
did to her the Hun in the aggreoate
is striving to do to the universal
woman. He wants to beat her dow,
he wants to bind her mentally and
physically, he wants to reduce he.
to the status she held among the
Massagettae or now holds amonn
the Hottentots. And in this At
tempted wholesale spiritual assass;
nation God alone is the jury, and a
human verdict can be given only hv
force of arms. Every woman who
thinks at ali knows instinctively in
her heart what those tens Of thou-
sands of American boys in France
are fighting for, so far as she is
concerned. Few women doubted
the necessity for war or ever CUES
zion tne righteousness OF 1t. There
are female pacifsts only because
ignorance, like politics. makes
strange bedfellows.
For the Hun has assaulted wom-
anhood as womanhood, be has
attacked matrimony and wife
hood; and we are fighting to beat
back this campaign of degra~
dalton just as much as we are
fighting to protect French terri
tory or rescue Belgium from the
desolation into which it has been
plunged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

whipping the Hun? But, then, Napo-
Icon would have said, "What has girl
to do with whipping the Hump
A polu, whose wife and daughter
work in one of the munitions factories,
recently put it this way: you women
who have come from America to stand
behind our women will never know how
much of our success in fighting is due to
your work. When our women at home
are not only looked out for, but have
good times, we fight with a good heart.
It's when they are downhea1ted and
discouraged that we flag. You sharpen
our very weapons"
Play is not only a recognized weapon
tol winning the war, but it is also used
as means for bringing girls into con-
tact with each other and teaching them
to lose and win with pluck A Chinese
and an American basketball team were
playing each other in d Y. w. c. A. field
in Shanghai. The Chinese girls suffered
a bad defeat, but carried off their dis
appointment without the culver of lip.
Later, however, one Of the Chinese team
was found huddled in corner, because
it had been her play that had lost the
day. TO her it was a disgrace deeper
than any American girl could ever have
felt for a lost game. Chinese girls are
only beginning to face the world in COM
petition
In most parts of the world WHERE
American recreation directors go they
find play for grown-ups a new idea UNI
less other Americans have preceded
them
When a Russian secretary began q
gymnasium class in Petrograd last year
she was surprised when the girls liter
ally doubled themselves up and gave way
TO uncomfortable laughter with every
round or two of the exercise. The mo-
tons were as familiar to her as walk
ing, but to them they were grotesoue be-
cause Of their entire novelty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
Beat Baird of New JERSEY

IN T OMEN are coming from u
w dozen states in the Union to
take part, for the first time in
the history OF politics. in an Eastern
election campaign. This unique situa-
ton was brought about when suffrage
was defeated in the United States Sen
ate. and Immediately after certain in
trcpid members of the "wilfu thirty
four entered ON a campaign for reeec-
ton.
Suffrage lost in the Senate by but two
votes, Since then Senator Pollock, of
ducing the need to one vote. Women
viii concentrate in two states to try to
capture it and pass the Federal suffrage
amendment during the life of the pres
emit Congress. The two Senators who
are running for election to the short
term in the United States Senate, No.
Vembcr >, and are slated for defeat by
women, are Senator David Baird, of
New Jersey. and George Moses, of New
Hampshire. 1t IS against Senator Baird,
Republican, who refused to stand by the
wartime policies of the President and
vote for the enfranchisement of Ameri-
can women, that hundreds of New York
and New Jersey women are bending
their energies, assisted by the cohorts
from other states.
New York women, able to register
their wrath at the polls, are or
ganillng in New Jersey to request men
10 defeat for them the man who opposed
the President They point to the Presi-
dents last words on national suffrage
delivered in the Senate: Il have daily
to apologize for not being able to en-
ploy' suffrage as spiritual instru-
ment" to win the war. Baird has de
fnitely refused the President this in
strumcnt.
All sufragsts. whatever their pre-
vious affiliations, are united on the
Beat Baird campaign which is now
being staged in New Jersey They have
buried the hatchct. Women of all
parties, clubwomcn, war workers, are
being asked to do their bit toward pass
ing the Federal suffrage amendment be-
fore the close of the present Congress
next March.
! Among the New York women who are
Republicans, but arc withdrawing their
support from Republican candidates,
and who viii actively work for the cleo
ton OF Democrats in the present cam
paign arc Mrs. John Rogers, chairman
Of the National Advisory Council of the
Woman's party; Mrs. John Winters
BrannAn, state chairman Of the Woman's
party; Miss Elsie HILL daughter of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

and recreation programme to occupy
the leisure time of girls who are en-
ployed in its Paris offices. One centre
of this kind is in operation, and four
teen others have been opened in Paris,
Lyons, st. Etienne, Tours, Bruges and
other cities. Eleven of them are for
munitions workers. Five recreation
fields, in connection with this work, have
also been provided for girls who are
making war material or doing govern
ment work in France. One of them. on
an island in the Loire, at Tours. is in
easy walking distance from the centre
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

leader OF the United War Fund drive;
Mrs. A. j. Rose. of Short Hills, sister
of Henry and Robert Bruere Mrs. O.
L. Moses. of Montclair; Mrs Jane Eayre
Fryer, of Merchantvillc, and Miss Mary
Dubrow. Of Passaic, who is chairman Of
the Newark anti-Baird canvass.
Among the suffrage leaders from
other states who are arriving or are on
the way arc Mrs. NJ Cleveland Simms
OF Chicago, a member Of the National
Democratic Campaign Committee; Miss
Maude Younger, of San Francisco;
Miss Abby Scott Baker, of Washington
d. G.; Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, of Phila-
dclphia; Miss Vida Mlholand, of New
York and Miss Mary lngham, state
chairman of the Womans party for
Pennsylvania.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

for you and treat you to tea and scenes.
VISIT Toxic and the members of the Y.
W. c. A. there will take you to see all
the flowers and beautiful places within
reach before you have been there a
week Chinese girls will play badmin-
ton and circle games with you, and
serve between times pumpkin seeds that
have been dipped in soy sauce and fried
brown. The trick is to hold them edge
wise between the teeth as they do. crack
the shell and extract the kernel with the
tongue, using the fingers only to cast
away the empty she'll.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

graph companies, however, cannot work
before a. m. nor after 8 p. m.
Under the labor law school attendance
IS compulsory between the ages of seven
and fourteen
At sixteen papers are not required
An exception to the labor law is made
IN the case of newsboys over twelve
years Of age who, on securing a badge
from the district superintendent, may
sell papers before and after school hours,
not earlier than a. m. nor later than
p. m.
The Mayor has power to issue permits
to children under sixteen to act on the
stage or IN motion pictures.
A health certificate must be presented
before child can enter school. If the
certificate is not received within ten
days after his entrance, the child is ex-
amined by Department of Health
physician.
Children must be vaccinated before
entering school, unless a physician in
good standing certifes that the child is
fully protected by prior vaccination.
The hours of girls of 16 and over are
regulated IN factories, mercantile estab-
hshments, restaurants and in messenger
service
BY recent law, passed in May, 1918
girls under p are forbidden to work as
messengers for telegraph companies
This regulation has not yet been extend
ed to glr4s employed as strcetcar con-
ductors ard elevator runners, although
bills providing the same protection as
for messengers were introduced in the
last Legislature
What is needed is:
A larger staff of school doctors and
nurses to supervise the health Of school
children
207.696 cases of defective vision and
teeth were treated last year
2l3,624 cases needed treatment
1928 cases received no treatment be-
cause of lack of facilities.
1854 cases of pediculosis were re-
ported last year.
6,202 cases were reported to have been
cured
9,452 cases were left to pass on" tho
disorder.
More clinics are needed to supplement
the work of school inspectors.
Existing clinics have been depleted be-
cause their doctors and nurses have LETT
for the front
School lunches in every school.
Improved sanitary conditions Of school
buildings
1t is not too much to hope that super
vision of school children viii bc 50 thor
ough that no child entering high loci
will have physical defect that is not
remediable. ~ ssv flAMH5
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
A Day, and a
Thousand Years

In France, China. Japan and India
leaders of Y. ". c. A. girls clubs hear
The same excuse when they first intro
duce games: "Tm too DID," But Pm
married." or "Why, I'm the mother of
a family" In the East being the
mother Of a family does not mean much
in years, for the girls are married while
they are mere children
A woman Of thirty, working in mu-
nitions in st. Etienne, France, asked to
join frolic in y. W. c. A. foyer, said
eravely, ooh, I cannot play I'm too old,
and I'm married. She was soon con-
WINGED that age is wholly a matter Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
From Palms
to Pumpkins

What the Y. W. c. A. is doing in
France and this country it is doing
wherever girls need wholesome fun.
Every country has its own way Of play
ing, and every association its own
method of entertaining its guests Not
every Y. W. c. A. can boast tropical
garden and giant date palms like the
one in Colombo, Ceylon. This is unique
in having native tree climbers to send
thrills through the guests who sit about
slipping tea. Nurses from Australia
who have stopped at Colombo on their
way to the various fronts know all about
It, They disembalk there while in port
and are entertained in the garden
Go to Australia and the girls of the
y. W. G. A. will have a cricket match
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
THE final test of any civilization
i is the position of woman in it.

TIME final test of any civilization
i is the position of woman in it.
The integrity of the home, the
reverence of man toward woman,
the respect in which mother and
wife are held, are an exact index of
the quality of particular civiliza-
ton. Fundamentally the German
menace is a menace to womanhood.
Atrocious as have been the crimes
committed by the Hun in the de-
struction of property, sacred and
profane, buildings can again be
erected, trees can grow once more,
devastated fields can once more be
made to bloom, men may even be
murdered and time fill their places:
but the dissertation of the human
temple, the bludgeoning of woman
INTO bestiallty or mere animalism,
constitutes a crime which no ven
geance can wipe out and for which
no PREPARATION that is adequate can
ever be made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

late Representative Hill, and Mrs. Clar-
ence Smith, member Of one Of the
local draft exemption boards of New
York
Among the New jersey leaders are
Mrs. j. A. Fl. Hopkins, who is the cam
paign manager of the anti-Baird cleo
ton campaign, of Morristown; Mrs. Il.
NJ. Laird. a Liberty Loan chairman, of
Newark; MIS-. Jay Ten Eycl a Newark
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
And What Of Us.
In Our Rocking Chairs?

10 keep the WEAKNESS of war from
taking youth and the joy of life from
the men at the front and the women
back of them, the Y M. c. A., the 7.
W. c. A., the National Catholic War
Council and Knights of Columbus, the
Jewish Welfare Board, the American
Library Association, the War Camp
Community Service and the Salvation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

all in one category to the Hun mind
the category of exploitation. The
rigorous safeguards which decent
men, through centuries of endeav-
or, have built about their homes
are essentially safeguards for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
BY p. II. w Fl A LIE Y

a corollary of democracy is a world
of equals, in which the rights Of
women are recognized to be Of iden-
tical importance with those of men.
Hcwcrs of wood, carriers of water
and bearers of children they are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

camera can thrust it before the
eyes of every man, be he Chris
tian or Monaghan. But spiritual
depredations are not so apparent.
The world cannot sense them for
generations. 1t is not, therefore,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

The conversion of the President to
the cause of suffrage is an instance
in point. There would, of course, be
little use to make the world safe for
democracy unless democracy made
the world safe for women
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

women, because homes are wom-
en- and women are homes. It is
easy to visualize the destruction
of the Rheims Cathcdral-there
arc the ruined walls, the broken
statues and the crushed stone The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

Of the city, but SO screened by trees and
shrubs as to insure privacy. The girls
have a tea house, picnic ground, basket
ball field, tennis courts and quiet places
for rest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

Girls arc girls the world over If the
War departments of this country and
france have their way girls there and
here will remain girls at heart. and as
wholesome after the war as the war
first found them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
The Frightfulncss
That Is of the Heart

All war, perhaps, looscns moral
ties. The Hun, however, has not
been merely immoral. It has been
his set purpose to debauch popula-
ton. He has sought to faint whole
peoples with his OVID blood, deliber-
atcly, in the knowledge that his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
Play Sharpens
Weapons

Napoleon stressed the Importance of
morale, but the great genius of warfare
himself would have rubbed his eyes to
sec basketball outfits among the cargocs
Of great ships which one country is send
ing to her ally, with other munitions of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

all worked from ten to twelve hours q
day. This was their midday rest
Games were in progrcss-quict ones
that required little cxcrcisc--in the y
". c. A. foyer, or social room. at Lyon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
The Hun War Is a
War Against Women

A prerequisite to successful
maintenance of autocracy is that
this should be aman's world, every
square yard of it; on the contrary,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

1t Means
Spiritual Murder
That French girl typitied woman
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-08-26
SENATE RETAINS
STRIKE MEASURE
Substitute House Draft Bill
But Add Disputed
Amendment.
,ternatLnna ~ servLce

Internationa News Service.
WASHINGTON. Aus. 26--The
senate military affairs committee
reiterated its support of the Reed
Thomas anti-Strike amendment TO-
dav when il substituted the man
power bill as passed by the house.
the senate measure and tackled on
the disputed amendment.
The substitution was made in or
der 10 expedite the work of the con
ferees after the bin is passed by the
senate. The senate committee struck
from the till several minor amend
ments adopted hy the house. Chief
of these was the TTeadWav amend
ment which authorized a complete
recombing Of the present deferred
ella ssifcations The senate commit
tee believed the provost marshal
general has power 20 order a re-
comoine or reclassidcat at any
time he deems il necessary.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-08-26
50 DRAF TED MEN
TO CAMP SHERMAN
First Section of the August
Contingent Leaves City
Monday Morning.

Another contingent Of so men left
South Bend AT $50 o'clock Monday
morning for Camp sherman. Chilli
cothe. O.. as part of the citys and
county's August draft quota. Nearly
three times as many will leave at
$50 o'clock Wednesday morning for
CGmp. Custer Battle Crsek, Mich.
out OF the 2S men scheduled TO
leave I'm division No - Monday.
three failed 70 put in an appearance
and they have been classed as de
serters. They are being sought by
plain clothes men of the south
Bend police force. The deserters
are:
Casmir Luczynski 925 w Wash
ineton av.
John Debeslko. 5fs $. Chaplin st.
Joseph Kenneth. Astor hotel. Chi
caso Oast address given board No.
-.
Roscoe TruaX. democratic county
assessor. who was placed i'm class A
and drafted with the Monday con-
tngent. was withheld at the last
moment TO enable him 70 repair
some slight physical defects under
the care OF his family physician. AIR.
Truax will leave within a few weeks
or when the next contingent leaves.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-08-26
INVENT NEW COAL
Process of Treating Bitumi-
nous Ends Smoke.
lternatIonaI - servlce .

AnltEud Il0naA News ~tIh4tf
WASHINGTON. Aug 26.--A new
coal has been discovered which is
practically smokeless and from
which valuable oils and by-products
are taken, the fuel administration
announced today The name of the
coal is "carb coal A plant for it's
production Will be soon established
at Chnchfeld. Va. a junction Of the
Chesa peake and Ohio and Norfolk
and Western railroads, i'm coopera-
ton with the ordnance department.
Charles r. Smith. the inventor
discovered a way TO treat bitumin-
Gus coal. giving as a result a coal i'm
the form Of nriquettes with less than
four percent of volatile matter and
from which tuluol. sulphate Of am
monia and valuable oils have been
extracted
The coal has been experimental
with for some time by vessels OF the
United States navy and two large
railroads and has proved a success.
the fuel administration announced
today