iar phase of public
morals and I know whereof I speak. Public morals are corrupted
because woman's point of view has no representation. We have laws
to regulate these things but they are man-made and the public
sentiment behind them which should govern their enforcement has
grown up through the ages and it is the sentiment of men only.
The laws are not equal nor equally enforced. If you doubt it you
have only to go into the night court and you will see woman after
woman convicted on the word of a policeman only, while in order
to convict a man you have to pile evidence on evidence. I think
this inequality of treatment will not cease till women get a
vote.

In a very convincing address Dr. Lovejoy said:

The past month has been memorable in the history of child labor
reform in America. A three-years' campaign culminated last Friday
in the signing of a bill by President Wilson which excludes from
the facilities of interstate commerce the exploiters of child
labor. It has been estimated that 150,000 children who now bow
under the yoke of excessive toil will be able to straighten up
and look heaven in the face when this law begins to operate on
the first of next September. In signing the bill the President
said: "I want to say that with real emotion I sign this bill,
because I know how long the struggle has been to secure
legislation of this sort and what it is going to mean to the
health and vigor of this country and also to the happiness of
those whom it affects. It is with genuine pride that I play my
part in completing legislation."

I am convinced that we need the voice of the church, the school,
the home, in making and enforcing laws to protect working
children, and, since half the adult population of our American
homes are women, since approximately 75 per cent. of the church
members are women, since 90 per cent. of the school teachers are
women and since every moral and educational enterprise in the
country is represented in about the same proportion, cold logic
forces us to the conclusion that we need women in politics. Of
10,000 members of the National Child Labor Committee, 6,400 are
women. Some of the experiences we have had with men in
Legislatures in response to the appeal of mothers for the
protection of working children ha