Child Welfare Extension Service. Hearing ... on H.R. 14070 ... January 24 and 25, 1929 |
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activities agencies appropriation approval assistance believe board of health bureau of child cent CHAIRMAN child hygiene child welfare child-health conferences Children's Bureau clinics committee Congress cooperation county health course death rate director Doctor CHAPMAN Doctor DRAPER Doctor KOSMAK Doctor MCCORMACK Doctor THORNDYKE Doctor WOODWARD examined expectant mothers Farm Bureau Federal aid Federal Government GARBER health centers health officer HOCH Hospital infancy act infant mortality interest Interstate and Foreign January 22 June 30 Kentucky legislation live births maternal death maternal mortality maternity and infancy Medical Association MERRITT midwives Miss MURPHY mortality rate mothers and children National NELSON Newton bill obstetrician obstetrics organization Parent-Teacher Association physicians prenatal care preschool children president Public Health Service question relief society Representatives rural SHALLENBERGER Sheppard Sheppard-Towner Act Sheppard-Towner funds South Dakota staff statement supervision thing tion Towner Act United visits Washington Women's Clubs
Popular passages
Page 63 - Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 97 - The maintenance of the authority of the States over matters purely local is as essential to the preservation of our institutions as is the conservation of the supremacy of the federal power in all matters entrusted to the Nation by the Federal Constitution.
Page 241 - The party who invokes the power must be able to show not only that the statute is invalid but that he has sustained or is Immediately in danger of sustaining some direct injury as a result of its enforcement, and not merely that he suffers in some indefinite way in common with people generally.
Page 249 - The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
Page 140 - an act for the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, and for other purposes.
Page 97 - The power of the States to regulate their purely internal affairs by such laws as seem wise to the local authority is inherent and has never been surrendered to the general government.
Page 93 - To maintain the fundamental principles of the American Constitution. To oppose further Federal encroachment upon the reserved rights of the States and of the individual citizen. To stop the spread of communism. To prevent the concentration of power in Washington through the multiplication of administrative bureaus under a perverted interpretation of the general welfare clause.
Page 97 - We have no power per se to review and annul acts of Congress on the ground that they are unconstitutional. That question may be considered only when the justification for some direct injury suffered or threatened, presenting a justiciable issue, is made to rest upon such an act.
Page 242 - No estimate or request for an appropriation and no request for an increase in an item of any such estimate or request and no recommendation as to how the revenue needs of the Government should be met shall be submitted to Congress or any committee thereof by any officer or employee of any department or establishment unless at the request of either .House of Congress.
Page 247 - With the transformation of the means of production into collective property, the monogamous family ceases to be the economic unit of society; the private household changes to a social industry; the care and education of children becomes a public matter; society cares equally for all children, legal and illegal.