The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03

ing the existing state laws or in raising state standards, actually increased state interest and state responsibility. Fed eral administrative machinery did not duplicate, weaken nor destroy state en- | forcing machinery. On the contrary there was genuine cooperation between the nation and the states in the protec- tion of children.
 5. It does not impair the power of any state to give greater protection to 1 it's children than that which the Con- gress may see fit to embody in future federal legislation.
 Julia LathrOp
 You'll find her on page 1861 of your Who's Who"-"Julia Clifford La throp, humanitarian And then brief 1 paragraph of facts-that she was born Fin Rockford, ILL, graduated from Vas sar college, did social work at Hull House in Chicago, and served for nine years as chief of the children's bureau. Just those few facts---about the woman who is responsible for the success of one of the greatest social experiments of the country, the government bureau whose province is the children of the nation, and whose hand has pointed the way to some of the outstanding devel- opments in social welfare of the present century.
 Somewhere, somehow, there must be touchstone to the marvellous thing that is Julia Lathrop's mind, the mind which organized the new children's bu- reau, which put through the first ju- venile court law in the country, which laid the foundation for the Sheppard Towner law.
 l lsJ s,. o,,. aa H..z.... speeches wKen you said that the only remedy for dependent and delinquent children is to abolish poverty"
 Then, for close to an hour, while the coffee grew cold, the interviewer lis- tened to Miss LathrOp talking about ideas on social work, and realized that ideas and ideals are the world she lives in-she simply cannot conceive why anyone should be interested in her as a personality, but she is immensely lem of human welfare as she sees it. It was not until the hopeful interview CT was a block away from the club house that she realized she knew not one >thing from Miss Lathrop's own | lips about her life, or "how she hap pened to take up social work" She is credited with having said, once, in answer to that question, that anyone who is the eldest of five children as she was, is bound to be interested in child welfare!
 Anyone who has studied the chil- dren brought into juvenile courts real. izes that a large part of juvenile de- linquency is due to grinding poverty" !" she answered query. "Is it at the basis of our social problem. I believe that within 50 years we can make a start toward abolisbing poverty-the social worker sees already definite at- tacks being made on poverty, and by earnest that they should see the prob paths so direct that they are unavOid- able. An illustration of this is the juvenile court, which in several cases has established the principle that cash allowances or pensions from public funds made to mothers struggling with extreme poverty are the most econOm- ical way to prevent the neglect and ruin of children. This principle is be- ing extended, and the public is com ing to see that it is to it's own interest and economically sound to prevent by some such means the poverty of cer- tain classes.
 "The drive against poverty will go on with increasing momentum, as the