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newsboys, with the age at which newsboys should be licensed ,37 with the question of allowing newsgirls at the stands of subway stations, and with that of giving the preference for news stands

at the elevated stations to those incapacitated for more active employments. Newsboys have specially enlisted its interest and it promotes summer camps for them, it invites them to see base

ball games, gives them dinners, and entertains them at moving

picture shows. It organizes a newsboys' detachment of boy scouts, advertises extensively the efforts made by private in dividuals to raise funds for newsboys' homes through theater benefits and hippodrome entertainments. It notes with patriotic pride the service flag with 2520 stars in front of the Brace Mem orial Newsboys Home.38

The newspaper press undertakes welfare work among its own employees and establishes lunch rooms, rest rooms, and smoking rooms; it installs shower baths for stereotyping and press room employees, and the most recent machinery for securing perfect

ventilation ; it encourages and contributes to benefit associations organized by its employees.39 Familiar as has much of this work become as it has been

conducted by American and European newspapers, it has been apparently surpassed both in extent and in variety by the welfare

work and general community service rendered in Buenos Aires by La Prensa. This maintains for its employees a restaurant, a

gymnasium, opportunities for recreation , and an emergency hospital. It has its own electric light and power plant with every

mechanical device for facilitating work, and incidentally for 87 A. Y. Reed, in Newsboy Service, presents the problem of the newsboy in relation to the work of the public school. John Morrow, a newsboy, told his own story in A Voice from the News boys ( 1860). See also J. E. Gunckel, Boyville ; A History of Fifteen Years' Work among Newsboys. Toledo, Ohio, 1905.

38 Charles Loring Brace gives the history of the formation of the news boys' lodging house in Short Sermons to Newsboys, pp. 5 - 52.

39 See Bulletin of Labor Statistics, Washington, September 11, 1913, for special account of the welfare work connected with the Evening Post, New York City. A. I. Shand gives an account of the London Times, " the first to break with the sordid old practices and set a generous example of wise liberality " in the matter of making “ the premises a comfortable club. ” — “ The Cen

tenary of the ‘ Times, '" National Review, February, 1888, 10 : 841-856.