information.

(4.) General minimum standards:

A. Economic and social; B. Recreation; C. Child-welfare
legislation.

Read the above and compare your local conditions with these
standards. Do you think all these demands necessary?

FOOTNOTES:

[8] Described briefly in _The Survey_ of November 12, 1921.

[9] In New Zealand, which has so many "modern improvements" in
government, the proposition has been made to fix a basic wage for a man
and wife without children, and make it the same as for a single man. In
addition to this sum, each employer would be required by law to pay
into a State Fund a sum slightly in advance of this wage for the single
man and the childless married man, and that excess sum would be
distributed in the form of a children's allowance to each parent
according to the number of children. It is estimated that under this
plan the total sum paid out in wages would not exceed that now
distributed, but the receipt by the workers would be proportioned to
responsibilities.

[10] See publications of the National Child-labor Committee.

CHAPTER IX

THE FLOWER OF THE FAMILY

"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in
faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in
action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the
beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!"

"Sure, He that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused."
--SHAKESPEARE.

"The apostolic of every age are ever calling for a higher
righteousness, a better development of the human race, a more
earnest effort to equalize the condition of men."--LUCRETIA MOTT.

"To every period its leaders: and the rise of every leader is
according to his watching for opportunity; and the chief quality
of leadership is the jewel of equity, by which alone the obedience
of men is justified."--ARAB SAYING.

"He presses on before the race,
And sings out of a silent place.
Like faint notes of a forest bird
On heights afar that voice is heard;
And the dim path he breaks to-day
Will some time be a trodden way.
But when the race comes toiling on
That voice of wonder will be gone--
Be heard on higher peaks afar,
Moved upward with the morning star.
O men of earth, th