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Title: Men and things
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Atkinson, Henry Avery, b. 1877
Subjects: Working class -- United States Christian sociology
Publisher: New York : Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to take the childrenout of the mills and leave them in idleness upon thestreets. Higher and better health standards must beraised and safeguards thrown about the home and schoollife of the children. Owen Lovejoy says, The physicaldevelopment of children securing employment is quite asimportant as their age. The War and Childhood. The war has put a newemphasis upon the value of children as industrial assets,and many states attempted to rescind the laws protect-ing children so that they might be allowed to work inthe munition factories as a war measure. England hadher experience. Schools suffered, juvenile delinquencygrew, and chaos resulted from the short-sighted policyof those who wanted children to help out in a time ofneed. An English periodical is quoted as saying, Whenthe farmers clamored for boys and girls at the outbreakof the war, it was for a few weeks only, and * to savethe harvest. The few weeks have spread out to a fewyears; and a few years cover all the brief period twixt
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THE CHILD WORKERS 187 boy and man when character is molded, education com-pleted, and skill of hand and eye and intellect acquired.Even in the time of peace one of our statesmen said thatone of the most urgent national problems was how tocheck the evils by which too many of our bright, clean,clever boys leaving school at the ages of thirteen or four-teen, had become ignorant and worthless hooligans atseventeen or eighteen. Much has been done in recentyears by patient, skilful endeavor to stanch this woundin the body politic; but now all is reversed and thehooligan harvest promises to be truly plenteous. Thevictims are of two classes. First, the little children takenfrom school at illegal ages for a few weeks under prom-ises that their interrupted school time should be com-pleted later on—a * later on which was never really prac-ticable, and is now frankly abandoned. Secondly, theboys and girls, who, having completed their legal schoolattendance, would normally have gone to learn a t

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