Appalled Nurse

Mile Marie Meonie Chaptal, granddaughter of the Emperor Napoleon's Minister of the Interior, President of the French National Council of Nurses, delegate of the League of Nations Child Welfare Committee, returned to Geneva lately after a brief inspection of domestic life in the U. S. She did not like what she saw. Opening her report with a few words of praise for President Hoover who received her in the White House, she continued :

"Starting from the Henry Street settlement in New York where I met Miss Lillian D. Wald, I encountered such depths of misery, moral and physical, as would appall the most experienced social workers. A great deal of child delinquency is due to the Prohibition law. Parents break the law and are inveterate drinkers. . . . The child becomes accustomed to see the law disobeyed. ... The very base of family life is different in the United States from that in older countries. About half the population have no religious beliefs at all. The home is merely a place for sleeping, or, occasionally, eating. . . .

"Hygiene takes the place of morals. Physical health takes precedence over conscience. . . . The human soul does not seem to be regarded as a living reality."

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.