Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-23
Humanity in Government
By James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor
 AMERICANS OF TOMORROW

Care for the nations babes, that the growing generation may be sturdy. stauncll and truly American, 1t to cary the nation forward in its progress to- ward the high ideals fIndarHentaI in the work of the founders ef the repub- lie, IS the duty which the department of labor seeks to perform through the chil- dren's bureau.
 The children's bureau was established by an act of congress sigRed by Pres;- dent Taft on April 8, 1912, for the prr- pose, as stated in the act, of investixat- ing and reporting "upen all matters per taining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our pee- pie, and especially to "investirata the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage. juvenile courts. deser- tion, dangerous occupations, accidents 1 and diseases of children, employment, legislation affecting children in the sev- ersl states and territories"
 The bureau has two different consti- tuencies to which it reports its findings. These are, first, the parents, more espec- l ially the mothers of the country. indi- vidual mothers as well as the groups or ganized in clubs and associations; sec onds the professional workers experts i in one field or another of child care. 1 While the individual mother wants to knew how to meet her own problems. tsae professional workers look to the bureal for the results of research conducted on a national scale to help them in the re- l sponsibflity which is theirs of putting i into practice in their state and local communities the best standards of child care.
 The bureaus publications, technical and popular. have been distributed since it's founding to the number of over g. 100000. Its printed material for moth. CTS on child care is called for beyond it's funds to supply; it answers on all subjects, a total lef s6,e00 letters 8
 year; and for nearly three years it hat been sending into the less accessible
 station. with a doctor and nurse and
 equipment to examine the babies whicf crowds of mothers bring
 II The resources and staff of the bureau
 are limited, so that it has hardly beer
 able to do more than make beginning
 in the vast task assigned to it. It ha.
 endeavored to select for study thos.
 questions and problems of the most prac
 tical and general import. What. for in stance. are the effects of industrial de pression upon children? When the ia
 thers are unemployed. are the childrer . forced to leave school and look fo l , dren find employment to help out tn
 family resources? In what ways is tn ! family standard of living affected
 What special hardships do the childrel suffer?
 To obtain answers to these question:
 by presenting clear pictures of typica
 situations. the etlildren's bureau ha Y made studies Of child welfare in relatio to unemployment in a New England an a middle western city in which unear ploynent has been serious.
 What are the effects on children C
 agricultural work? Do they work a
 long or longer hours than they weul : in factory employment? Is their phys !. cal development affected? Do they rt ''Y ceive the education which child-labor r,
 strictions are intended to make poss ble? These questions are frequentl asked. and the bureau Is engaged in
 series of rural child labor studies, co,
 ering cotton sections in Texas, beet l growing areas in Michigan and Colorad
 and triIck-f farming regions of New Jel ]. sey. Virginia and Maryland A prof 3 lem to which these studies are calling al