Word: mill
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That Professor Taussig has performed for this generation a service comparable to that performed by J. S. Mill for an earlier one, is an achievement of which all Harvard men may well be proud. As a teacher Professor Taussig has aroused enthusiastic interest in economics among undergraduates, and as a scholar by his pioneer work has commanded the admiration of those who, like himself, have devoted their lives to the study of economic problems. The qualifications that make a god teacher and the talents that make a good scholar are quite distinct. It is the possession of both in such...
...principal interest in "The Product in the Mill" lies in a mother's search for a child abducted nine years before. Driven to desperation, she leaves her home to try to do what the detectives have failed in, and, of course, she succeeds. A subsidiary interest in the typewritten manuscript, though production on the stage may reverse the values, is the question of child labor. The lost child is found working in a Southern cotton mill under the usual unhealthful conditions; indeed in danger of life and limb from a broken machine. In this purely incidental manner Miss McFadden shows...
...Henry's own mill Martha finally goes. There in the spinning-room, with its racing machinery and tired children tending the bobbins, she finds two little ones who attract her. Brother and sister they appear to the world, though they have already explained to us that "Skinny" Hinks, the boy, is really the child that Lirty had left when he died in the hospital. The remainder of the act tells of Martha's attempts to secure work in the mill in order to see the children, how the foreman and a director think her an investigator and refuse...
...Hinks captures him, brings him back to work. With a mob of crazed mothers who gather outside the mill when piercing screams come from within, we learn that "Skinny" has been injured in the machinery. Martha takes him to his cabin and nurses him. From the lips of old Hinks she hears the story of how he took him from a dying man in a hospital who owed him money; and she knows that "Skinny" is her own child...
...success of "The Product of the Mill" will depend on the effect of the children and their speeches. They are much better written than anyof the other dialogues in the piece. There is a pathetic humor running through them that may prove deeply touching. Even in the manuscript, the picture of suffering childhood in the mill is vivid. On these elements of humanness the popular appeal of the play must rest, much more than upon the somewhat commonplace story that it tells.--Boston Transcript