The Washington herald., 1921-12-04

an early settler to the little town Of Grand
Island, Nebraska, down the center Of which
runs q thoroughfare called Main street,
and there settled and practiced law and
is still engaged in that practice. o. A.
Abbott was once Lieutenant Governor of his
State and La Z man Of standing in that
part Of the world. He raised his family
in this town of the West, which even yet
is in the cattle country, sending his chill
dren to the public schools and, in the case
Of his daughter, Grace, giving her the ad-
vantages Of completed courses in the Uni
versity Of Nebraska and the University of
Chicago.
For . number Of years Miss Abbott VA,
q high school teacher In her own Stat. and
In her own town. Then she became asso
ciated with the Chicago League for the
Protection of Immigrants, a voluntary or
ganization whose work attracted wide ar.
tention because of its effectiveness and IFS
human understanding. In CHICAGO Mis-.
Abbott studied the problem OF the ,mmi
grant and his adjustment to his new mir.
roundlngs. Later a State Immipration
Commission was created in Illinois and
Miss Abbott became the executive a, 4,
As result of her study of the fore,v,.-.
IN this country she wrote q book entitled
Inc immigrant and the Community.
which is regarded as one of the most mn.
derstanding studies of this question tb,,
have ever been written.
IN 1917 Miss Abbott was appoi,,.d s,
l. tor of the Child Labor Divi,io, -, ~,
Children's Bureau Of the United Stat, n.
partment of Labor This divi.;o.
cres'ed TO administer the frst Federal Chilli
LABOR Law, which was later declared NJ,
constitutional and was replaced nv n.
present law, which places q probib,tiv. -
upon the employers Of child labor md uh,,,
thus becomes tax measure and :. ..-,S
lstered by the Bureau of Internal Rsv.nm.
MISS Abbott was an adviser to th. NJ
Laoor Policies Board during th. w.- 81
was actVe IN various phases of the wo,l
OF the Children's Bureau under Mis-. Jul,,
Lathrop, whom she succeeded. H., 80.
appointment by President Hardin. 80.
fore, takes the form Of a promotion
There is one point in the si,p,t,o, ,n
Win EeAdtlOn to the chiId
miss Aooott told me, (which 1 want 70 en-
phasine very strongly. There h.v. v-onn
up In this country in the last few v.,,s
many agencies, both public and priv.t. .h.,
are working in behalf Of child v.,t...
Ihose agencies have become yerv w,d..
spread and are contributing to tn. vel, ~.
OF the children Of this country IN . Us
that Is going to make the coming rener.,,,.
a better generation Of men and women e..
has ever been known in any countrv ,;r,.
the world began. This work of imnro,;,.
the man and woman product of the nation !.
OF such Importance that it should yield to
ne other
Now when conditions 20 shan. thar.
selves that there 10 unemployment and in
dustrial depression those conditions ma,
quite naturally divert the interest Of n.
country from the work that it is doin, for
the children. There is danger under ,ucb
conditions that child welfare work will h.
relaxed. that it may even be abandoned in
some localities.
When there is relaxation in emplovm.nt
there is return of many children to the
schools that have been working. Schools
are crowded these days. There has not been