The Snowflake herald., 1922-03-31

ties which are manufactured in the homes. Home
work in these lines is not what it 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 nome 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 child labor which enters into 1t, 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 III. Parker,
executive secretary of the Interdepartmental So
cial Hygiene board DR.. Parker speaks of the
plan as 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 determined
to every effort to prevent the reestablishment
of the vice districts closed during the war There
are many vexatious problems connected with the
abolition of the social evil.
Miss Grace Abbott is to lead 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
child care took the initiative in calling a Pan
American Child Welfare conference in Buenos
Aires in 1916. It's objects were to establish and
cultivate a common understanding of these prob
lens among those who are specialists in that field
second meeting of the congress was held in May
1919 in Montevideo. On both of these occasions
students and workers in the field of child care in
the United States failed to appreciate the oppor-
tunity which the conference offered for compar-
ison and cooperation in the work, as well as for
Pan American acquaintance and understanding
This invitation to the women of North and South
America to join with the League of Women Vot-
ers in the discussion of child welfare and other
common problems is therefore a peculiarly happy
one
"The Conference on Child Welfare will have
before it the problem of public provision for (1)
maternity and infancy, (2) child hygiene (3) child
labor and industrial problems affecting children
and az children in need of special care-the de-
pendent, neglected defective and delinquent chill
dren. 1t is hoped that formal papers can be all but
eliminated and informal discussions and exchange
of experience and plans can be relied upon to make
the conference one of really practical value It
ought to be possible to work out as a result Of
these meetings what may be regarded as Pan
American standards in these several fields of child
welfare, which will be an expression of what the
women who represent the young rich and power
full republics of the New World hope they NAV
secure for all the children of the American re-
publics. 1t may be that out of this meeting there
will be developed national rivalry In the care
of children and, in consequence, of the quality of
the citizenship In such rivalry there viii be onlv
rejoicing the part Of all as the standard is
pushed higher and higher"
1.-THE Civil Status of Women" will be the subject
of conference led by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willie
brandt assistant attorney general Of the United
States.