Jane Addams of Hull House, in discussing the provisions of the law requiring principals of schools to issue age and educational certificates to children desiring to leave school and go to work, said:
"Much depends upon the intelligent and sympathetic [cooperation] of the principals in making the enforcement of the child-labor law a success. Parents are already giving the ages of their children as 6 when they are really but 4, in order to evade the law and permit them to leave school when they are 14. Demand birth certificates if you are in doubt, and do not let parents impose upon you regarding the ages of their children."
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