New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-09
Child Labo.
Reader Renewed Protes!-An Ex-
ample OF Foster-Motherhood


TO TIE Feiter OF The Tribune.
S.. Through being more than usual
" ce ron-s am but now come.
through thickot o. belatoa reading. to
youe correspondents agreement with
r.y every word N denunciation of the
use of children in mills for profit, fol-
lowed BY his continued condonement of
tire use of children in the North Caro-
ii the hades Of the social conditions
in MANY Of the mountain homes Of that
state. Also, your cores ondent, argu-
ing as . practical man against
dreamer, would know. What are you
eoins 10 10 about il ."
70 human being IS finer than the
wrsng that he submits to, or consents
20 through his siience-so ! am going
70 protest.
Believing with Viscount Bryce that
"inie;cotusl and emotional forces come
T. be The actually ruling elements in a
democracy am going to continue to
protest with whatever fire may be
borne 50 ne of the union of my head
ana heslt until the organized harness
Ing of the flesh of children to machines
fer predt is done.
Believing the press to be the su-
prene sensitizer Of these intellectual
forces. | an going to continue to ap
plaud every such able and eloquent
deed against child slavery as The Trib-
fune's editorial, Sweating Children"
which must have aroused its readers
10 the meaning Of the decision of Judge
Boy Of the Federal Court for North
Carolina. This decision, in effect,
penalties decency in Industry by throw
ine upon the market untaxed the
cheaper products of North Carolina
child labor in competition with the
product of adults in states where child
labor has been abolished, or the prod
rct of taxed child labor in states where
= thu Federal child labor tax law has not
hecn defed.
Believing with Miss Grace Abbott,
c. cf Of the Children's Bureau, that
an the main local initiative and re-
srpnsirility can remedy any evils, once
the arc clearly defined and marked
ort" would appeal TO the local pride
symfathetic rays from her lit areas
int hor dark places that her children
mn enter their bit Of heaven on this
cart without the exaction of the
pound Of profit.
q h.4efiy as possible l viii close by
telling OF q practical thing which one
young woman. a graduate of univer-
sity Of the State Of New York, is doing
about it,"
She has by one noble gesture taken
unto herself five children of the slums.
About two weeks ago I visited by nvi-
tation he~ little farm where this foster
motherhood is being enacted. AS I ap-
preached little chap of about three
ran to her and chung to her. crying, az
want my Doddyi I want my Doddyl"
~Doddy" being his baby Interpretation
Of her given name. Evidently where
he had come from the stranger was not
a. object Of trust.
Nc mad supper together up in the
orchard about great fire. We roasted
potatoes. toasted "wienies" on sharp
pointed sticks, drank the best of milk,
reioieed over homemade bread made
constantly by this devoted creature
herself. We chewed apples and ginger
bread; We were gay and sang songs.
: There we're with US four college girls
who are sympathetic, help as they can,
hui The brunt CT this undertaking falls
upon the young woman, none too
ttrong VINO has stripped herself to the
barest necessities Of life that this
beautiful conception OF hers shall live,
DAISY s. GILL.
Douglaston, Oct 8, 1921.