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Title: Men and things
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Atkinson, Henry Avery, b. 1877
Subjects: Working class -- United States Christian sociology
Publisher: New York : Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rcrowded housing conditions taxeslife heavily by infant niortality, and mortgages the futurehealth and morals of the children, thus threatening thefuture efficiency of the state. Investigations conductedby the Childrens Bureau in Washington show that thechances of life for a baby grow appallingly small asthe fathers earnings grow less. For instance, the casesof one thousand babies in eight representative citieswere studied. The returns show that in families wherethe father earns less than $550 a year every sixth babydies; while in families where the fathers income is$1,050 or more a year only one baby in sixteen dies.^ The Church and the Homes of the Workers. Thedisorganizing influence on the social and industrial lifeincident to the war accentuates the importance of pro-tecting mothers and children. The churches have a re-markable opportunity here, for it is to the homes that .See Infant Mortality, a pamphlet issued by the ChildrensBureau, U. S. Department of Labor, Washington, D. C.
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■ o ^ o ^ rt ^ E _ < (U o ; THE STEEL WORKERS gi the churcK makes its first and strongest appeal. Jesusset a little child at the very center of his system for re-generating humanity and saving the world. The church must produce and train skilled leaders whocan direct affairs; it must set in motion forces that willcounteract the evil in these industrial communities; andmust help to create public sentiment so that the city thatallows bad housing to exist and the industry that forcesit will be looked upon as murderers of little children.Playgrounds, recreation centers, and the strict enforce-ment of all the laws that protect the home must be urgedupon the church as a part of its program. Withoutthese the gospel fails. The Church and the Workers. Another feature in-cident to the life in the steel-mills is the apathy thatdevelops in the workers themselves. Their attitudetoward life is characterized by a dumb, brutish fatalism.The editor of a paper in one of the steel cities whendiscus

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