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 THE NECESSARY SEQUEL OF CHILD-LABOR LAWS 325

done much to secure the gradually improving child-labor laws of the nation.

There is needed, first, the co-operation and sympathy of all who have at heart the welfare of the industrial state. " The whole is no greater than the sum of all the parts, and when the indi- vidual health, safety, and welfare are sacrificed or neglected, the state must suffer."