(Official Delegate to National Mothers’ Council from Tokio, Japan.)
A Japanese child is rarely punished and never whipped, but the strong influence of the home training makes the average child obedient and self-controlled at a comparatively early age. He is taught to conceal his grief with the thought that if he does not, he will give pain to others.
A Blot on Civilization
By Julia Lathrop
(Head of The National Children’s Bureau)
Infant mortality is a blot on civilization. If it is worth while to spend millions to safeguard farm products which are, after all, only raised to serve the needs of each generation of children in turn, is it not worth while to spend the necessary sums to popularize the methods by which the lives of children themselves may be safe-guarded?
Teaching the Child Citizenship
By Virginia Terhune Van de Water
(From “Little Talks with Mothers of Little People.”[7])