The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-08-31
COMMISSION TO
BROADEN SCOPE
IN CHILD PROBE
Body Created by Legislature
Adopts Plan of Procedure
In Its Work
OBJECTS ARE STATED

The Children's Code Commission
created by the last legislature to
study problems relating to children
and suggest measures for enactment
by the next legislature. at a meeting
in this city, definitely outlined the
scope OF the organization.
The following are the tentative o.
jectives Of the commission:
TO ascertain actual conditions af-
fectlhg child life in the state.
To study existing laws affecting
children and the efficiency with whicn
they are administered.
To suggest standards for the admin
istration of existing laws, laws pro-
posed and child welfare agencies.
To inform the public as to existing
conditions, as to desirable standards,
as to possible improvements in con-
ditions, and as to the scope Of the
commissions work.
TO report the findings and recon-
mendations of the commission to the
governor and legislature.
To propose new measures and
amendments to existing laws and 10
assist in the adoption of the legis-
lative program.
The commission has been divided
into two working groups. A group
consisting of DR.. A. J. McCannel, Mrs.
Margaret Froats and Henrietta Lund
will devote its attention especially to
the study of defective, dependent and
neglected children, and TO health ana
recreation. A group consisting of the
remaining members of the commission
will consider especially delinquent
education, children in in
dustry and general child welfare.
." A Wide Scope.
The program comprcnends c0nsid-
GRAFTON of the following subjects:
and mentally defective chill
dren, child placing, mothers; pensions,
juvenile courts. compulsory education,
social conditions in the schools, rural
child labor, child employment, voca-
tional training, provision for the
health of mothers, child hospitals,
vital statistics. sanitation Of school
buildings, social centers, Americaniza-
tion, adoption, guardianship, crimes
against children, and study of child
life in rural communities. The COM
mission states that several states have
of this kind and very
results have been achiev-
ed, among them the states of Mime"
sofa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Ten
nessee, Connecticut and Oregon.
The cooperation Of the federal
bureau has been enlisted
and this organization will assist in
much of the investigation work which
is to be undertaken. Aside from this.
county committees will be appointed
to assist in securing Information as
to social conditions and Investigations
will be made both by the intensive
studies of typical communities and by
questionnaires submitted to various
groups interested in the social condi-
tion of children. To speed this work
of investigation a working program
has been adopted and from this Tina
on will be vigorously prosecuted, the
commission states.
Members of the body which met here
consists of seven members appointed
by the governor. They are: c. l..
Young, Bismarck, chairman; Mary
Pennington Strand. Ellendale. secre-
tary; Hazel Farkasch. Bismarck: !:
Mrs. Margaret Froats, Grand Forks;
DR.. A. ]. MCDANIEL, Minot; Henrietta
Lund, Bismarck; and c. L. -Vigness.
Glen Ullin.