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LABOR PARTY DOOMED
Frequently labor leaders have endeavored to
consolidate the working people into a political unit,
but always have they failed. Facts and figures
prove this contention.
Looking back to 1881, when with 50,000 organ
ized workmen in America, the American Federation
of Labor took form, one sees a steady growth of a
body of men organized primarily to humanize work
ing conditions. In 1900 there were more than a
half million of them; and steadily the number in
creased until 1919, when there were more than three
million members. With a sudden zest this member
ship in 1920 was run up to four and a quarter mil
lion—the peak of labor’s accomplishment. And
just as sudden has been the drop in the past four
years, falling to 2,850,000.
Why the drop? From time to time political
leaders tried to drag the membership into politics,
turning over to one party or another millions of
votes just as though the individual worker had no
mind of his own. The election of 1924 was again
an impressive example.
Organized labor is a splendid thing, but not in
politics as politicians would welcome it. The mr
merical strength of labor depends entirely upon the
leaders in its fold. The average worker wants or
ganization to bring him better working conditions
and higher wages, or what he claims just wages; but
more and more does he realize that within his labor j
organization are those who would parcel out the
votes on election day as so much commodity.
CHILD LABOR LAWS
On June 2, 1924, Congress passed a child labor
amendment to the Constitution of the United States,
and if it will be ratified by 36 states—the legisla
tures thereof—it will become the twentieth amend
ment to the Federal Constitution.
The amendment provides that “Congress shall
have power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the la
bor of persons under eighteen years of age, etc.’’
Very many individuals misinterpreted this
amendment, believing that it means that children
under eighteen years of age shall not be employed.
Were that so, then the amendment surely would de
serve defeat, for many children, when they reach
their teens—young men and young women, so to
speak—show no inclination for study and have, in
fact, no capacity for more than elementary knowl
edge. To prevent such from working would mean
to drive them into idleness and mischief.
The amendment, however, provides only for
power “to limit, regulate, and prohibit” the labor
of persons under eighteen. But Congress, by this
amendment, is granted the power—and if sixteen
were substituted for eighteen, chances are little op
position would be encountered. As the matter now
stands, the manufacturers and the farmers are op
posed to the amendment, and it will have rough
4 sailing. This month thirty-eight legislatures are
meeting and so far it doesn’t seem possible that the
amendment will be tacked onto the Constitution, as
36 out of the 38 must ratify the amendment.
TO UNIFY BUSINESS
The policy of consolidation or unification is tak
ing a firm hold in many avenues—educational, com
mercial, and political.
Some years ago, when consolidation of schools
-was first advocated, some citizens earnestly opposed
the idea; and today no interested taxpayer -would
go back to the former rural school system.
In politics the same principle may be applied,
but wfith greater care; for nothing would be more
detrimental to the welfare of America’s institutions
than a selfishly manipulated government. The de*
sire for political power may be created through uni
fication of governmental departments at the hands
of politicians.
Then, again, the principle of consolidation
works splendidly in the commercial sphere if a check
valve through legislation prevents the creation of
monopoly.
The President advocates at this time the policy
of consolidating railways into larger units with re
gard to public interests. It is true that there is an
enormous waste in railway operations. For exam*
pie: A is a city and B is a city. Two railroads
connect the two cities, carrying passengers and
freight to and fro. Let us consider the enormous
duplication of investment in equipment and opera
tion. The wraste is inestimable. The policy of con
servaton in this case is in order.
STRANGERS COMING IN
Under the operation of the so-called quota law
immigration from European countries and Mexico
has doubled. The overseas increase is credited to
northern Europe, while Turkey and southern Eu
rope show a decrease of almost a million within ten
ytgrs.
The Scotch Irish, the Germans, the Scandina
' ians show increases, and these nationalities blend
well with the Americanized stock on hand. Mexico
is a heavy contributor, but the safety valve should
guard against the influx of too many Mexicans.
They may beom? excellent citizens but a Mexican
is reared in an environment of revolution, and it is
more difficult to mould a peaceful American citizen
out of a Mexican than out of some other blood.
The immigration problem is a most important
one to the welfare of America. If foreigners were
permitted to come to our shores in unlimited num
bers, all classes of them, soon the United States
would lose its reputation of being the melting pot of
the world. There's nothing to mix if it’s all iron
ore.
THE WORD “probably” is a very flexible
word. It is most convenient for young and old,
rich and poor, honest and dishonest, etc.
Ten thousand billion years probably are no
longer than the life of a star, Henry Norris Russell,
head of the department of astronomy in Princeton
University said when he voiced his agreement with
the theory recently advanced by Professor Edding
ton and Dr. Jeans, English astronomers.
“The sun has undoubtedly shone for more than
a billion years,” Professor Russell said. “Assum
ing as Professor Eddington does that matter in the
interior of stars may be gradually converted into
energy to supply these losses, the life of a star pro
bably exceeds ten thousand billion years.”
A school lad of ten may add to Professor Rus
sell’s statement this: “Probably no scientist knows
how or when stars, the sun, the moon, and the earth
were formed, and probably no one will ever know.”
If economy would be practiced in every depart
ment of government the same as President Coolidge
did when he made a recent trip from Washington
to Chicago, the national debt would soon diminish
in leaps and bounds. The President from the first
refused a special train, but he would have accepted
a private car; but when the railroads asked $90 a
day for a private car and an additional charge of 25
fares, the President traveled as an ordinary citizen
and saved the public $1,700.
The greatest will-power test is to snoop or let
it alone.
Evolution of a bright child: Cuteness, impu
dence, gall.
And yet those by whose advice great men be
come great seldom amount to anything.
Women and children first is a fine idea at sea,
but it’s a bore in a barber shop.
Puzzle: A boy getting $16 a week is given $50,*
000 worth of bonds to carry. Find the boy.
Correct this sentence: “It’s true I won a
game at billiards,’5 he told the reporter, “but I have
nothing to say for publication.”
It’s odd that Mr. Edison hasn’t thought up a
cross-word puzzle to expose the ignorance of college
men.
America has comparatively few haughty women,
and they can’t look that way in a barber chair.
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