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Miss Kate Barnard of Oklahoma City KAsks for Commissioner of Charities.GUTHRIE: A notable feature ofWednesday afternoon’s session of the 5C constitutional convention was the ad- pi dress by Miss Kate Barnard of Okla- ar homa City, who held the attention Sc of the convention closely during her w! talk and was roundly applauded at th its clore. She told in detail of her pe \i'?its U the slums and sweatshops in er St. linuis and Chicago and used her m description of conditions there as an ce argument for the prevention by the 30 convention of child labor.She also advocated strict compulsory education provisions for the protection of the children, and the creation of a state commissioner of charities to look after the interests of the unfortunates. She told of the conditions in certain Oklahoma poor houses where blacks and whites, of both sexes, were herded together and referred to the scandals in connection with the sanitarium for the insane.All of these she thought could be avoided by the establishment of such an office. She also advocated an 8-hour law for miners, «nd laws which would keep messenger boys from being sent into vicious districts.0(oflaiWopthelithmlishaindeinjini
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Ada Weekly Democrat
Ada, Oklahoma, US
Fri, Dec 14, 1906
Page 12
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