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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of Maryland
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Maryland. Bureau of Statistics and Information
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Publisher: Bureau of Statistics and Information of Maryland
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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he child who sellspapers to earn a little towards his familys support nor thechild who uses the street trade to express his play energj-gets a square deal. The former is unprotected from the com-petition of younger and incompetent sellers and the latter isunprotected from physical and moral dangers; whichever isto be the attitude toward the trade, that of a wage earningoccupation or a profitable and instructive pastime, the Statemust reckon the cost in maintaining its 2000 or more juvenilestreet traders. Not only does the newsboy increase the Stateexpense of administering the Child Labor Law to the amountof over 12500 a year, but he is found again taxing the Stateas one of its public charges. Twelve and one-half per cent, ofBaltimore newsboys are to be found on the docket of theJuvenile Court. Ninety-five per cent, of the school childrencommitted to the Parental School for repeated truancy havebeen newsboys or street traders. Forty-three per cent, at the STATISTICS AM) IXFOUMATION 121
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11)2 REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF Maryland Industrial School (a reform scliool partially siq)-ported by the State) have engaged in some street trade.* Newsboys are constantly being injured by accidents whileplying their trade, and when, as frequentl) does happen, oneof these accidents is fatal, little or nothing is said about it.Every boy injured or killed is a!i indictment against theState which allows and encourages boys to engage in anoccupation full of dangers and with no protection. In August, 1911, a newsboy was killed by an automobilewhile jumping from an electric car. In view of the fact thatthis was the third fatality to newsboys within 10 days as aresult of jumping from moving cars, the Public Service Com-mission took under consideration the advisability of issuingan order prohibiting the railway company from allowingnewsboys to sell on cars not equipped with safety doors. Itwas learned upon inquiry that this was not within theirpower, but a matter for the Legislature or for the

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