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...their child labor prohibition was packed with moral dynamite which might yet blow the anachronistic practice out of all industry. Next to cotton mills, clothing factories suck in more girls and boys than any other U. S. industry. Most of them are dark. fetid "sweatshops" where youngsters trim and stitch and sew on buttons at starvation wages. But because so much of this cheap dress & shirt work is done in tenement homes, no reliable figures are available of children employed or wages paid. In a Brooklyn factory lately investigators found 5-year-old girls making 6f an hour...
Your comment in the Dec. 12 issue regarding my fellow townsman, Edward McCrossin, contained five counts: name, age, place of accident, nature of accident and quotation. Correct were name and place of accident. Wrong was the quoted age. The accident produced a jagged 36-stitch end-of-a-pipe wound in the right hand, not a broken collar bone. He did not say, when offered a drink, "Sir, I am a Prohibitionist, dead or alive" but, thinking clearly under stress as consulting engineers must, and considering that his heart had just been through a terrific strain he replied: "Thanks...
...Fairfield, Conn. Near the Bretts (Grandfather George Platt Brett is board chairman of Macmillan Co., publishers) lives Dr. Edward Nicholas DeWitt, able ophthalmologist, 1917 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School where he studied under famed Dr. George Edmund de Schweinitz. Dr. DeWitt knew a way to stitch up Baby Brett's torn...
...still the zealous, domineering director of Philadelphia's Grand Opera Company (the world's only woman opera-director since Anita Colombo was eased out of her position at La Scala) but in five years her position has radically changed. No longer does she haggle over prices or stitch costumes. She wears orchids, travels abroad to engage talent. Prosperity came in 1929 when Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis, decided to support the company, to use it partly as an outlet for opera talent in the Curtis Institute of Music. Proof...
...Honesdale. Pa. After many a rousing hymn (favorite: "Touch Not the Cup") and a Big Free Magic Lantern Show presented by Grand Diapason Shafer, the meeting adjourned. History- "Chet" Shafer, an amateur student of Americana, collector (at his home in Three Rivers, Mich.) of old shaving mugs, cross-stitch mottoes, cuspidors and headless wooden Indians, wrote for the Saturday Evening Post in 1926 an article called "The Pipe Organ Pumper"- wherein he recalled...