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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt:...mines. Thirteen years in one state for stores and factories. Twelve years in three states for stores and factories. Twelve years in four states for factories alone. Twelve years in five states for mines. Ten years in two states for stores and factories. Ten years in one state for factories alone, and ten years in one state for mines alone. Eleven states have neither age limit nor any other restriction. Sixteen states have no school attendance laws. Twenty-seven states have no educational test whatever. Thirteen states require that a child shall be able to read and write. School attendance for a prescribed period ranging from 12 weeks in 16 states to a full term in eight states are now required, but in none are the requisites made that the minimum educational qualification shall be a grammar school graduation. Let this be the slogan and the interests of thousands will be enlisted to blot out the scrubs and scabs of juvenile life, and a healthy, vigorous start will be made for high-bred stock in men and women. This will save the child and save the nation. It will pay. MAX MORRIS, SECRETARY-TREASURER RETAIL CLERKS' INT'L UNION. The interference of the state with the domestic relations, as the lawyers term them, is alI ways a delicate matter, and with one exception, that of parent and child--is the most delicate. We, therefore, at the outset inquire what are the reasons that justify this interference. Under the Roman law children were the slaves of their parents, or, to speak more exactly, of their fathers, and this dominion extended even to life itself. The authority over children in the Middle Ages was practically unquestioned. This was consistent with feudal conditions. With the growth of the modern system of industry, destroying, as it did, the last vestige...