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...Royal Commission reported cigaret factories in which Indian children aged from six to ten are employed 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at a wage of 4¢ a day, adding, "similar conditions were found to prevail in the mining and wool industries." Adult Indian workers, the Royal Commission ascertained, receive some 37¢ a day unless highly skilled, when they may earn 50 cents...
...York Skin & Cancer Hospital became second most common after eczema. Of 56,705 patients examined, 5,078 had ringworm. Of the 5,078, 4,328 had it on their hands or feet. Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service Bureau figures that half the adults in the U. S. suffer from ringworm at some time. The American Medical Association says "probably 75 or 80% of the adult population have ringworm of the feet either by clinical or by laboratory examinations...
Long after he is gone Stanford will vividly remember its Grand Old Man? his Thursday evenings at-home in a big firelit living room which he specially rebuilt to make room for more friends and conversation; the adult atmosphere he fostered on the campus ("College men should marry college women, as they are more nearly mental equals. ... A man sees the best women he'll ever see while in college"); his word-coining ("quacktitioner," "pluviculture," "sciosophy" meaning organized ignorance); his abhorrence of liquor, tobacco, ignorance, arrogance, vulgarity (he said some people should write a "V" before their names); a fine...
...hoped also that heads of the more progressive juvenile and adult courts, parole offices, and departments of probation throughout the country will cooperate by affording training facilities, and by placing our graduates where they will have an oppor- tunity to develop: If communities recognize the great importance of correctional work, they will so compensate the positions that they will attract and hold well educated professional men. Prison work should be dignified...
Newton Diehl Baker was succeeded as president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation by onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris and as president of the American Association for Adult Education by Banker Felix M. Warburg...