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Working Boys Or Working Men?
By AAV HAMON GOVIM
Underlying the endeavor of clear- first claim; until they are again taken
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thinking students of modern social into the arms of education and moral
problems to reduce child labor to a and social opportunity.
Fundamentally, the question is
minimum is the conviction, reached
after long study of the realities of whether we shall not cease to work
life in the great cities, that the longer the childhood of the nation and place
the educational life of the child and industry in the hands of the adult
the more the child partakes of what population of America, whether we
the educational psychologists— like shall not even up the losses (if they
John Fiske—call the "period of child- will be losses at all) we shall sustain
hood," the finer and more capable with the passing of child labor with
will be the manhood and womanhood the gains to be had from a more wide-
spread intelligence and a liner effi-
of the nation.
ciency, from a more general rever-
This is the intellectual or educa-
tional aspect of the question. There care for home, religious institutions,
iimommunirmimamm
educational agencies and the low.
is also the moral phase of the ques-
'lion of child labor, just as there is a American industry is
will
be
great
and
predicated upon
strong only as it.
moral point of view from which to the principle that civilization is de-
This Is the Season When
regard industry as a whole. This as- rived from truth, morality and sens-
pect of the child labor problem need
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not, however, be stressed at great able The
conduct.
peace and happiness of the
length. When children are consid-
ered, the difference between what is American
people
demand
that
chil-
then be taken out of trade and Indus-
moral and what is social or educa- try, and that the business and indus-
tional cannot nicely be drawn, for trial life of America be su ordered as
that which modern thought has de- to call forth a maximum utilization
termined as most desirable for the
development of child life is, by and of adult brawn
and intelligence and
complete an abolition as possible
distinctly as
large, most valuable from a disc
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of every form of child labor. True,
moral standpoint. business and industry will to a con-
The outstanding thing about child siderable degree have to make ad-
labor has been and is its immorality, justments, some of them harsh ad-
and society and industry are now justments, but there is every reason
bearing the fruit of thoughtless and to believe that the final outcome will
unreckoning greed. Ilad there not be profitable to industry and basin-
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been the wanton exploitation of chil- mess, as well as healthful for the peo-
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dren from the time the factory sys- pie as a whole.
tem came into being we probably
Stripped of all considerations of a
should not have seen the development selfish nature, the basic thought which
of the unseemly side of the situation will eventually exorcise the use of
in Europe and America. The sins of the labor of children front the work-
the fathers of the industrial system shop of the world is that the activities
are now being visited upon the chit- in which the human race must en-
dren of all men, the children of those gage should be carried on by those
who employed and of those who who are best suited to carry them on,
worked. Democracy suffers from the that profit and avarice must not stand
fact that its protestations are, in the in the way of a healthy social econ-
There is nothing better, more delicious, more satisfy-
eyes of those who struggle for the ornY, that the labor of children is es-
realization of their better strivings, sentially wasteful and subversive of
ing, than a glass of Berghoff Double X or Half-and-
made unsightly by the ugly past of all values which are associated with
Half. Best of all, it leaves no disagreeable after- I industry—the dominating force in child life. In other words, the tines-
, this era of democratic professions. lion is Shall we have boys who work
effects. Have a case delivered to your home and
But there is an immediate immoral- and men who are idle, and shall we
ity attaching to child labor which, as permit the degradation of certain ac-
have it ready when company comes. It will make a
s factor making for social disintegra- tivities indispensable to our civiliza-
dainty and grateful offering during the Chanukah
tion, compels the suggestion that one lion because, for the most part, they
of the indispensable acts in the de- are dominated by children and those
•
Festival.
bl s . o f in- who ex Atilt Children; or' shall we
termination of the proel
dustry is the abolition, and immediate lift up these activities to the plane
abolition, of the labor of children. of recognition upon which all Work,
This immorality is reflected in the all industry and all business must find
heartless sophistication of Ameri- themselves?
The dawn of a better social order
can children, in the distortion of the
young minds of the nation, in the will appear when, for example, the
quick absorption by children, long be- American newsboy will be supplanted
fore they reach the working age, of by the American newsman—one of
the eminence of money and the pas- the conditions which will be symbolic
eination for gain, in the spurning of of the return of children to the chil-
all sense of reliance upon parents and dren's world and of a full utilization
of a respect ful consideration for or- of all the hands and minds of the
der and law and the social refine- adult people of America in the ad-
vancement of prosperity and civiliza-
relents.
It would hardly be necessary to ti ,In•
elaborate upon the ravages which the
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premature employment of children
has wrought. Not only is American
industry the worse for it, but Ameri-
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tion, are the pourer and less potent.
MIIMBIng In shackling the limbs of children
mormwasonse.
with the weight of work, in denying
boys anti girls the opportunity of par- Jewish Tribune Editor Sounds
taking of simplicity and idealism and
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in exploiting them in the name of a
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youthful industry, we have earned for
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ourselves the retribution that is now
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come to us.
NEW YORK. — (J. T. A.) — The
It is not to be doubted that the question of whether American Jewry
widespread delinquency among the is to continue to help the Jewish com-
children of this country is due to the munities in the eastern European
all-important fact that American countries in the rebuilding of the
childhood has lost the sense of de- country after many years tit wars and
pendence and the attitude of obedi- pogroms was put to a number of Am-
ence to parent and teacher and of- erican Jewish leaders in an inquiry
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ticer of the law. This tendency of sent out by Mr. Herman Bernstein,
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unrestraint is due measurably to the editor of the Jewish Tribune. The
passing of childhood's iridescent question reads as follows:
idealism, unworldly concerns and de-
"What, in titer opinion, should be
lights of the imagination which con- the attitude of the American Jews
stitute the mainspring of the child's towards our people abroad? Shall we
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character and inspiration.
continue to help them through such
American children find surcease organizations as the Oil, which pro-
from the hideous chaos in the social, vides tools for needy artisans and ag-
economic and even educational order ricultural implements for Jews desir-
in a morbid adultness which finds its ing to take up farming and maintains
Offices and Parlors:
expression in illicit gain, the immoral- trade schools for the Jewish youth,
', ities abetted by a veal police power or shall we let them shift for them-
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and a corrupt entente between gov- selves'!"
ernment and the traffickers in human
All the prominent men who answer-
weakness. Indolence, contempt for ed the question endorsed the work of
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stern as well as humane agencies, the Ort and its appeal to American
gambling and petty deceit culminat- Jewry.
I ing in bolder affronts upon the peace
lion.
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of society characterize the present
"There is only one reservation that
period in the child life of America. I desire to emphasize. I think that
American children, or the children of nothing should be done by American
any other country, cannot be made Jews unless the Jews of other coun-
into early economic and industrial tries do their full share," says Col.
factors and at the same time be ex- Herbert II. Lehman. "The communi-
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pected to remain children, possessed ties which we are helping have in
of the marks of childhood—interest
many Cases materially improved their
in the mysteries of nature and in the economic position. They must be forc-
wonders of noble adventure, healthful ed to carry as great a load of this
innocence and candor, love, senti- work as possible, and our aid should
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ment, obedience and loyalty.
only be supplementary to their own
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The American child is exploiting
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By far the largest amount of
'the indifferent state of mind of con- efforts.
money and effort should be provided
- temporary society with reference to by the communities asking for and re-
the future of American manhood and ceiving help. There has been a great
womanhood. The American people tendency in the past for these com-
have permitted the false adoration of munities to depend in too great a
profit to confound their duty to them- measure on American generosity. I
selves and t othe future of the repub-
favor doing nothing for them
lic. From the point of view of na- would
unless it has previously been ascer-
tional morality, child labor consti- tained that they were themselves ex-
tutes sin and weakness. From the hausting every means to care for their
standpoint of practical economic wis- own situation. Furthermore, I believe
teas
dom it has distinctly demonstrated that American Jewry should be asked
the powerful ignorance of the minds to provide only a part of the financial
of industrial leaders.
help. There are a large number of
Now we are paying the heavy tolls. well-to-do and rich Jew's in England,
The inordinate prevalence of crime France and Germany. They, tan, in
among the youth tells a tale of eg-re-
Om fumbling on the part of the many instances have been willing to
lay almost the entire burden on Am-
American mind in the matter of the erican Jewry. The economic and so-
nation's children. A morally and eco- cial rehabilitation of the Jews in east-
nomically protected childhood would ern Europe is fully as much their
obviously insure a youth immune to problem as it is ours, and they should
the despoiling circumstances of mod- be expected to do their full share in
,-re city life. But we did not protect the work to be undertaken. Unless
the childhood of the American peo- and until they assume this responsi-
ple. Rather, we exploited it, acted bility in full proportion to their
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greedily toward it, exposed it to a means, American Jewry will not look
thousand and one temptations which
sac-
with
favor
on
continuing
to
make
lurk in the environment of business
and industry. Rather, we were in- rifices much longer."
different in our educational and so-
cial' policy. We came to glorify the
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