Temptation to use child labor peculiar to this industrial epoch 155 Our sensibilities deadened by familiarity 155 Protection of the young the concern of government 156 Effect of premature labor on the child 158 Effect of child labor on the family 161 Effect on the industrial product 162 Effect on civilization 163 Intelligent labor the most valuable asset of our industrial prosperity 164 Results of England’s foreign commercial policy 165 Lack of consistency in the relation of the state to the child in the United States 166 Failure of public school system to connect with present industrial development 167 Correlation of new education with industrial situation 168 Child labor legislation will secure to child its proper play period 169 Power of association developed through play 171 Co-operation, not coercion, the ideal factory discipline 173 Actual factory system divorced from the instinct of workmanship 174 The activity of youth should be valuable assets for citizenship as well as industry 175 Military survivals in city government destroys this asset 176 The gang a training school for group morality 177 Concern of modern government in the development of its citizens 179 CHAPTER VII UTILIZATION OF WOMEN IN CITY GOVERNMENT The modern city founded upon military ideals 180 Early franchise justly given to grown men on basis of military duty 181 This early test no longer fitted to the modern city whose problems are internal 182 Women’s experience in household details valuable to civic housekeeping. No method of making it available 184 Municipal suffrage to be regarded not as a right or a privilege, but as a piece of governmental machinery 187 Franchise not only valuable as exercised by educated women, matters to be decided upon too basic to be influenced by modern education 188