The Government strictly
enforced the eight-hour law, and no working woman was permitted to work
overtime. Children were not allowed to work for wages under any
circumstances for they were the wards of the State, but men could work
overtime if the union permitted them, with double pay for it. The
Government granted a pension of half the wages yearly received by every
working man and woman that was over sixty years of age and a full
pension wage to every working man or woman over seventy years of age, no
matter what their financial condition was at that time.
Every person before casting a ballot at the polls was required to show
a receipt from the Department of Health that two dollars had been paid
into the Old Age Pension fund for the previous year, which was a
salutary measure in preserving the purity of elections by eliminating
the shiftless and improvident from participation in the election.
The Government obeyed the Fourth Commandment, "Honor thy Father and thy
Mother that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee."
CHAPTER XVII.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
I learned that the Department of Health had greater responsibilities
than any other department of the Government, for the physical, mental
and moral welfare of the people was in its keeping.
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