Excerpt from Child Welfare in Tennessee: An Inquiry by the National Child Labor Committee for the Tennessee Child Welfare Commission Throughout its progress the inquiry has been marked by a fine spirit of co-operation among all the public and private agencies concerned and by admirable steadfastness of purpose in seeking the best there is to be had for the boys and girls of the State. The nine agents of the National Child Labor Committee who have carried on this study and who here submit their reports, have been inspired at every step by the earnest and genuine desire of the people of Tennessee for better things, and venture to hope that this volume may have some part, however humble, in bringing these things to pass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.