44 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SAN JOSE. 



Field Work. 

 For Student Teachers. 



1. Visit tlie county jail or the city jail. 



2. Note the conditions of the "tanks" in which the prisoners siioud the day. 



a. Sanitation. 



b. Light. 



c. Air space. 



d. Place to sit ; etc. 



3. Note the condition of the cells as to sanitation. 



a. Cleanness of beds, blankets. 



b. Freedom from vermin. 



c. Crowding in the cells. 



4. How do the prisoners spend their time? 



5. What is the nature of the food? How much? 



6. What provision is made for clean clothing? 



7. What opportunity have the prisoners to work? 



8. What opportunity for recreation? 



9. What effort is made to prevent education in criminality? 



a. By giving the prisoners an occupation. 



b. By permitting them to read. 



c. By segregating the first offenders from repeaters. 



10. How are persons not yet convicted treated? 



11. What are the immediate causes of delinquency? (See jail records.) What 



appears to be the leading cause? 



12. Learn cost of upkeep of jail per month. (Ask Sheriff.) 



13. State your opinions as to whether the jail is a place of detention, a reform 



institution, or a place to make criminals. 



Section 5. Child Labor and its Relation to Delinquency. 



1. The case against child labor. 



a. Crowds men out of employment. 



b. T^nfits the child to become a parent. 



c. Increases crime and makes more criminals. 



d. Is expensive to industry. 



2. Extent to which children employed in industries. 



a. In the cotton mills. 



b. In the canneries. 



c. Shucking oysters. 



d. Coal breakers. 



e. Plying street trades. 



f. Glass factories. 



g. Strawberry and cranberry fields. 



Total number of children workers (1914), 1,750,000. 



3. Effect of labor upon the child. 



a. Dwarfed physically. 



b. Physical injuries. 



c. No op])ortunity for education. 



d. Little chance for recreation. 



e. Vicious snri'oundings contribute to juvenile delinquency. 



4. What to do to prevent child labor. 



a. Provide mothers' pension. 



b. Enforce and pass laws against child labor. 



c. Provide vocational guidance. 



d. I'rovide continuation schools. 



e. Educate the luiblic. 



C. The National Child Labor Bureau. 



a. Its aims and what has been acoomplishod. 

 6; The proposed Federal Child Labor Bill. 



a. Purpose — to prevent interstate commerce in products of child labor. 



