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...giving orphans the right to $2,000 of an estate before creditors can touch it; a law making it impossible to send a child under 16 to jail or to charge him with crime; a law of "contributory delinquency" penalizing parents. Playgrounds, public baths, night-schools, summer camps, day- nurseries???these, too, bear the Lindsey seal. "He is the Pinchot-Burbank of human resources." But the revived enthusiasm is a mere whisper in comparison with the plaudits of 10 and 15 years ago. Reform is apparently obsolete. Before the War, Ben Lindsey's story was shouted from front page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight of Reform | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

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