Child Labor and the Public Schools

The restriction or the abolition of child labor will impose new duties and open up new opportunities for the public school every- where.What is the cost of child labor, not to the children in terms of stunted bodies and dwarfed minds, but to society, in terms of racial and industrial deterioration?We frequently ask that ques- tion and usually answer it by coming to a firm conviction that it does not pay.It is not worth the price we pay for it.It is equally necessary that we should ask ourselves what will it cost society to restrict or to abolish child labor.This cost will be measured largely in terms of the cost of additional schools, better and more varied training, including, of course, trade schools, and some additional relief for poverty

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