The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-04-06

ties which are manufactured in the homes Hcus
work In these lines is 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 wOt
now and then is that instead of work going frun
the home out in the factories the work Is nov
collected in the factories and taken TO ID home
finished and carried back to the fAtory. The
poor conditions which usually surrounA home WORK
the child labor which enters into 1t, the impca
billty of regulation by law either as to sanitata
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 Tran
in Women" is to be led by DR.. Valera II. Parks
executive secretary of the Interdepartmenta 30
cial Hygiene board. DIR. Parker speaks Of TIE
plan as follows:
During the past three years the United Stats
government has been expanding generous suns o.
money for social hygiene purposes. The women
of the United States have supported the govern
ment program actively. They recognize that muu
remains to be accomplished and are Determined
to use every effort to prevent the re-estabisnmem
of the vice districts closed during the war; Ther
abolition of the social evil
Miss Grace Abbott is to lead conference
"Child Welfare" Miss Abbott is chief Of the cnf
dren's bureau in the United States Departnsh
of Labor. She says of the conferences:
Latin Americans interested in the problems
child care took the initiative In calling fM
American Child Welfare conference in Buen@
Aires in 1916. Its objects We're to establish anu
cultivate a common understanding Of these pfw
lens among those who are specialists In tna' ne1
second meeting of the congress was held I'd ha'
1919, In MontevideO. On both Of these occas"s
students and workers in the field Of child care
the United States failed to appreciate the opp~
tunty which the conference offered for coml.r
ison and cooperation in the work. as well as M
Pan American acquaintance and understaDan.
This invitation to the women of North and ccu'
America to Join with the League Of Women wv
ers in the discussion of child welfare ana or'
common problems is therefore peculiarly mw
one
1.-The Conference on Child Welfare will asm
before It the problem of public provision TOT w
maternity and infancy (2) child hygiene. t5l uns
labor and Industrial problems affecting cDhns
and (4) children In need of special care-fm ~
pendent, neglected, defective and delinquent ~
dren II is hoped that formal papers can De AZ ~
eliminated and informal discussions and exc's'.
of experience and plans can be relied upon 70 IN
the conference one Of really practical va'o0
ought to be possible to work out a. 'esa1 4.
these meetings what may be regarded a. -
American standards In these several FIELDS u -, ~
welfare, which will be an expression III WIN
women who represent the young, rich anu 80 .s
full republics of the New World hope tne'
secure for all the children of the Anerlcas 49,,
pubics 1t may be that out OF this meeuns -
will be developed a national rivalry 10 'ns
of children and. in consequence, OF the GUAM -,
the citizenship. In such rivalry there VIII = 80
rejoicing on the part of all as the stano'''
pushed higher and higher" 49,
"The Civil Status Of Women Will De inc WIN yrut
of conference led by Mrs. Mabel walker ,,.,i
brandt, assistant attorney general Oh INC
States.