Since then, more than ever, such agencies for moral protection have become official in civic life and have the endorsement and the aid of government.

It is one new feature of all modern protective work that women are employed as members of the police, as matrons in public places supported by tax, and indeed in places of commercial recreation, as judges of special courts where parole and methods of suspended sentence are used, and in all places where boys and girls are exposed to danger and to temptation.

Thus the home influence is spreading out toward the work-place and the play-centre--truly a retranslation of family service in terms of the public life.
=The Children's Bureau.=--Our government at Washington used to be limited in its function to those political services which no state organization could accomplish by itself, but now the Federal departments are busily at work setting standards, if only through authentic information and suggestion, which aim to raise the average life in all directions, economic and social.

The Children's Bureau is preeminently a standardizing body, although with no power to issue or enforce decrees.

The Bureaus which have to do with foods and animal life and farm management are setting higher and higher levels of attainment for the common people in their home life and in their vocational work.