Civic improvement; Urban women; Women in public life
3. The city appropriated $235,000 for a new children’s court building.
4. The children of the city were stimulated to a greater use of the
children’s department of the public libraries.
CHICAGO
1. Establishment of the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund. The work of
this foundation is primarily child welfare.
2. Introduction of course on Children’s Welfare in the Chicago School of
Civics and Philanthropy.
3. The City Welfare Exhibits conducted in the public schools and
neighborhood centers of Chicago under the auspices of the Woman’s City
Club of Chicago used material shown at the Child Welfare Exhibit.
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Two days after the Exhibit closed the citizens were able to get passed
an ordinance requiring the appointment of factory inspectors, thus
making operative the laws regarding child labor, etc.
L. A. Halbert, general superintendent of the Board of Public Welfare,
writes: “I believe that the popular understanding of the work of the
Board of Public Welfare and other social work which was begotten by this
Exhibit has been a very important element in protecting this kind of
work from any sordid political influences.”
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.
1. A $25,000 school building is now being constructed in the congested
Polish district. Conditions had been reported for six years without
result. Four photographs in the Exhibit did the work.
2. The formation of a Central Advisory Council (to be made up of one
delegate from each church, civic, charitable or religious organization),
to confer monthly and arrange a program for concerted action in all
problems touching civic and child welfare.
3. Radical change of policy on the part of one large manufacturing
concern relating to work put out in families.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
1. A close partnership formed between a newly aroused public and
existing agencies working for the welfare of children.
2. The Exhibit is continued as a part of the traveling libraries
department of the public library.
3. Sections of the Exhibit, dealing with particular subjects, loaned for
circulation in churches, schools, settlements and clubs.
4. The Children’s Agencies and the churches stimulated to a stock-taking
of progress and furnished an exact basis for mapping out the next steps
ahead.
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