The American Child, Volúmenes9-10

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National Child Labor Committee, 1927
 

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Página 4 - The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!' So. But the hand was gone already. The doctor put him in the dark of ether. He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath. And then — the watcher at his pulse took fright.
Página 4 - To please the boy by giving him the half hour That a boy counts so much when saved from work. His sister stood beside them in her apron To tell them "Supper.
Página 4 - Under the sunset far into Vermont. And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled, As it ran light, or had to bear a load. And nothing happened: day was all but done. Call it a day, I wish they might have said...
Página 4 - Fifth. The adoption of a weekly rest of at least twenty-four hours, which should include Sunday wherever practicable. Sixth. The abolition of child labour and the imposition of such limitations on the labour of young persons as shall permit the continuation of their education and assure their proper physical development.
Página 6 - Baker, director of the Bureau of Child Hygiene of the New York City Department of Health, says: The birth record is perhaps the starting point of about 75 per cent of our effective baby-saving work.
Página 8 - There should be no child in America that is not born and does not live under sound conditions of health; that does not have full opportunity of education from the beginning to the end of our institutions; that is not free from injurious labor; that does not have every stimulation to accomplish the fullest of its capacities.
Página 7 - But it was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
Página 4 - Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Página 15 - No minor under fourteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in, about, or in connection with, any establishment or in any occupation.

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