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THE TWENTIETH AMENDMENT AFFECTING
CHILD LABOR, SWEET SIXTEEN AND
LAZY JIM—SEVENTEEN.
By F. Wesley Phelps
“The big boob was a child until he was eighteen
years old because Ma didn’t want him to work, be
cause Pa could support all three uv us yet awhile
she reckoned.” While sweet-sixteen spends Pa’s
wages keeping up with the styles and a poor working
boy, seventeen years old elopes with Ma’s baby, past
sixteen, the legislature is busy adopting the Twenti
eth Amendment to the United States Constitution,
giving a right to prohibit child labor of eighteen
years of age.
This magazine (the Pacific Coast Mechanic) has
never to any great extent concerned itself about
State’s rights being abused by the Federal Govern
ment, but there are times when our precedential
position must undergo a change, and the proposed
Child Labor Amendment, no doubt, makes a good
beginning. The Amendment is opposed for several
reasons. First, because if adopted, it will prohibit
the 43 states from enforcing their child labor laws
which are now so well regulated and surrender that
duty to the Federal Agent. It is so well enforced
no child under sixteen in the State of Washington,
fourteen years old in some states, is allowed to do
manual labor. It is opposed secondly because it
would surrender the privileges of the above men
tioned state rights to the federal government. We
surrendered our local option and state prohibition
privileges to the Federal Government through the
Eighteenth Amendment and now all you see and
hear on the streets and in the court rooms is a Fed
eral Agent is chasing a bootlegger. If the twentieth
amendment is adopted this scene will probably
change some, the Federal Agent will remain the
same but his victim will be a father or a mother who
is violating the law—the Twentieth Amendment, by
having their daughter and son fifteen and seventeen
to help earn a living and be reared as an industri
ous young woman and man instead of lazy, trifling
and good-for-nothing liabilities—“not worth the
powder and lead to kill them,” as the old saying
goes.
Halt! with your unreasonable argument, says
a sympathizer for the bill and eries out, “You are
enslaving the tots of the country who are unable to
defend themselves. ’ ’ Perfectly natural for the cal
amity howlers. It is Socialism Communism that the
twentieth amendment will cast upon us. It will
start a system which when in full operation will be
come the free moral agent of our children, sub
stituting parental control.
To permit or compel a child to do manual la
bor is the one thing this magazine and its editor will
not support but will oppose unsurrenderingly. But
when it becomes, or involves the questions of inter
fering with and destroying ambition, prohibiting ap
prentices acquiring mechanical knowledge and some
broken down and dissipated twentieth century apos
tle is left to decide the exact date when my neigh
bor’s little frail, poorly nourished Johnnie is to be
no longer a child but become a young man; and
when the son of my buddy workman at his bench,
big as his father, is to be known as a child man and
such apostles say eighteen years, then we oppose.
However, let it be understood we demand the en
forcement of a Child Labor Law by the States as
it now is being done in forty-three States and let
the Federal government relative to child labor, stay
right where the tenth amendment says it shall re
main. The tenth amendment provides, “The pow
ers not delegated to the United States by the Con
stitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are re
served to the states respectively or the people.’’
The eighteen amendment affected the tenth
amendment and the twentieth amendment if adopt
ed will practically destroy the tenth amendment
which guarantees State’s rights.
SHOE ON TIIE OTHER FOOT
Great Britain, one of the major members of the
league of nations and except where its own interests
are concerned, one of the ardent champions of the
league, is being constantly put in a position where
it must dispute the organization’s authority. Its
attitude is a source of unending interest.
When the flash in the Egyptian crisis occurred,
England swung the mailed list and then, when
Egypt attempted to appeal to the league, vigorously
told Geneva to keep its hands off—and it did. More
recently Ireland registered with the secretariat of
the league the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921. The
Downing street government has sent a protest de
claring that “internal affairs are of no concern to
the league.”
Great Britain has asked and sought postpone
ment of the conference at which the now famous
protocol is intended to make the league “effective”
by settling questions of authority to enforce its pro
visions. Owing to pressure from the dominions
England is shying away from the Japanese proposal
to alter the covenant so that domestic questions
might be referred to the league council should the
international court decree that they were purely in
ternal. The colonies, like the United States, see
in this, despite Tokio’s protestations to the contrary,
a move to raise the Japanese immigration question
before the league.
During the Egyptian crisis Neville Chamberlain,
a member of the British cabinet, said in a public
address:
We are not going to pursue any aggressive for
eign policy and any suggestion that what has hap
pened in Egypt is merely a veiled attempt to destroy
the independence which we gave to Egypt some time
ago is founded cither upon misunderstanding or else
upon deliberate misrepresentations.
But nothing is more likely to lead this country
into friction and into war with other powers than
to allow them to think that we do not mean what
we say. That is not aggression, that is not pug
nacity; it is a business arrangement so that every
body may know that when we say a thing we mean
it.
We arc not going to allow leniency on our part
to be misinterpreted as weakness. We are not go
ing to allow the British name to be dragged in the
dirt. We are not going to allow British officers
to be murdered with impunity. We are not going
to allow obligations which are due to us to be flout
ed.
That being said, we desire—and I believe we
shall succeed—to maintain friendly relations with
all the world.
In the language of the United States, Mr. Cham
berlain would have added, as he looked across to
Geneva, “I’m not arguing with you; I’m telling
you, ’ *
You’re entitled to make a mistake every time
you try to do a new thing, but if you don't make
the same mistake twice it’s an investment and not
a loss—you’ve added to your assets another piece
of wrong information—you know something else
not to waste your time on.
An occasional woman thinks it sex equality if
he works for her and she works for him.
A town like Seward is a place where a bache
lor with $1,200 wonders if he is loved for himself
alone.
Radicalism: “He’s rich; swat him.” Reaction
aryism: “He may grab some of it; swat him.”
It’s funny language. Cat gut comes from
sheep, and Wall Street makes goats of the lambs.
Congressman Hill’s wine contained 13 per cent
of alcohol. The other 87 per cent was advertising.
Names mean so little. The man who named the
Pacilic got killed in a row out there.
Unhappy world! There are only 387,642 peo
ple who know how to raise children and they haven’t
any.
The superiority complex means only that the
owner hasn’t been associating with people who
amount to much.
By this time Clem Shaver must have returned
to doing whatever it was he was doing when he be
gan doing work for Mr. Davis, whatever that was.
Ramsay Macdonald, it is reported, will come to
America, but will make no speeches. Why not es
tablish this as a European precedent?
LIBERTY TDE4IRE
TONIGHT, ONE SHOW
DOROTHY PHILLIPS
IN
THE WHITE FRONTIER
Violent hate and then violent love;
can a woman feel both for one man.
A powerful story of slander, re
venge, and romance. Gripping
scenes and unexpected climaxes.
And a wonderful 2-reel comedy
“THE CHAMPEEN”
SATURDAY AND MONDAY
Walter Hiers in “Fair Week” and
two one-reel comedies
DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT A. B. HALL
ATTENTION PIONEERS
Meeting Friday night promptly at
8 o’clock; installation of officers and
other important business to transact.
Big feed coming up. Come on Old
Timers, eat what you can and can
what you can’t.
Gus Mantliey was an Anchorage vis
itor this week.
STARR SAILS TONIGHT
The steamship Starr will sail for
westward points tonight at 8 o’clock.
She will have a good cargo of freight
and passengers.
PURSER ON STARR POPULAR
Westward residents who depend on
the steamship Starr for their many
comforts of life, are much pleased
with R. Dykeman, the new purser,
formerly second officer on the boat.
Mr. Dykeman has made many friends
in the camps to the westward by his
unfailing courtesy and accommodating
disposition.
Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie, residents
of the Iditarod district, left on one of
the last boats for the States. They
are well known in Seward.
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Mrs. M. J. McDonald, whose husband
is in the stores accounting department
of the Alaska railroad was among the
Anchorageites leaving on one of the
last boats.
Mrs. Fred Parsons and two chil
dren left for Australia on the Alaska.
She will also visit in Honolulu and
Southern California.
Mrs. R. D. Chase and daughter, Miss
Nancy, are returning passengers on
the Yukon, on their way to Anchor
age. They have been visiting in the
States for several months.
Brunswick Radiolas, the Radiola de
Luxe at the Alaska Shop. "* tf
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