The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-03-31

Ties which are manufactured in the homes Home
work In these lines IL not what 1t was before the
development of industry when all the spinning
weaving and the making of clothes shoes and
gloves, and most of the food products which are
now made In the big stockyards. were manufac-
tured In the home. The difference in home work
now and then Is that instead of work going from
the home out in the factories. the work Is now
collected In the factories and taken to the home
finished and carried back to the factory. The
poor conditions which usually surround home work
the enid labor which enters into It, the impossi-
bility of regulation by law either as to sanitation
or hours of labor, and the competition of low
wages, all initiate against the health, happiness
and efficiency of the individual the industry, and
the community"
The conference on the prevention of Traffic
In women Is to be led by DR. Valeria H. Parker
executive secretary of the Interdepartmental So
cal Hygiene board DIR. Parker speaks of the
plan follows:
During the past three years the United States
government has been expanding generous sums of
money for social hygiene purposes. The women
of the United States have supported the govern
ment program actively. They recognize that much
remains to be accomplished and are determined
to use every effort to prevent the re-estabshment
of the vice districts closed during the war There
are many vexatous problems connected with the
abolition of the social evil
Miss Grace Abbott is to lead a conference on
Child Welfare Miss Abbott is chief of the chill
drens bureau In the United States Department
Of Labor. She says OF the conference:
Latin Americans interested in the problems OF
chiid care TOOK the Initiative In calling a Pan
American Child Welfare conference In Buenos
Aires In 1915 Its objects were to establish md
cultivate common understanding of these proh.
lens among those who specialists in that field
second meeting of the congress was held in Nav
lelo In Montevideo. ON both Of these occasions
students aud workers in the field of child care In
the United States failed 10 appreciate the opnor
tunity which the conference offered for comnar.
lSon and cooperation in the work as well as for
ran American acquaintance and UNDERSTANDING
This invitation to the women of North and So,,,L
America 10 join with the League of Women y,t
ers In the discussion of child welfare and otber
common problems is therefore a peculiarly h,nn,,
one f''
The Conference Child Welfare will b,,a
oetore II tue problem of public provision for ~,
maternity and infancy (2) child hygiene 70, .,na
TABOR and Industrial problems affecting cbiIdr,,,
"na Nb children in need OF special rarp-,ha a.
pe""'nt' neglected. defective and delinquent chill
dren IL Is hoped that formal papers can no oil ~,
el'ih'hateu ana informal discussions and exchange
I" experience and plans can be relied upon 10 r,,t
the conference one of really practical valus 7,
ought Ia be possible to work out as a r.s,I, -
these meetings what may be regarded a. p
American standards in these several folds -, ,t,|
welfare. which will be an expression NJ urhat 80
women who represent the young rich and mower
'a' republics Of the New World hone they NAV
secure for all the children II the Ap,erics, =,
puelcs, II may be that out II this meetip, ,b,.n
WIN De developed national rivalry in the ,,rs
ot ehildren and, In consequence. Of the ouaI;,y -.
the cttizcnShip In such rivalry there win no -,
rejoicing on the part of all as the st,paa-, :;
pushed higher and higher" =
The Civil Status of Women" will be the sph,,o,
OF conference led by Mrs Mabel Walker win,
brandt assistant attorney general OF The I-,i,a,
States. NH''eu