Show LABOR H S IJA i iD D By L. L A. A We hear bear a lot about constitutional amendments now days and one ot of them is to get a constitutional amendment so that congress can I lass lassa aSS aSSa a child labor law la prohibiting all all minors from working until they are arc eighteen years yeaTs old There are some matters to putting young oung children In mills that ought to be regulated but some of the labor or- or and civic cranks want to make it general so that young oung men and women cannot work wo until they become 18 18 and thus bring up a generation ot of loafers They want to centralize it at Washington so that It is easily handled and thus destray destroy de- de stray stroy the principle of the government government govern govern- ment by the people In amt the several states There are two sides to the child labor question Work is the principal part of any boys boy's or girls girl's education York Work teaches a boy bor or girl how to make a living md and to know how to make a living lhing Is the L. L important part Ol of their education Schooling without work unfits a ayoung ayoung young man in the struggle ot of life The work habit Is a pleasure and If Ifa ifa a young man is not taught the work habit he becomes a drone and a loafer and looks down clown upon work We are lately told that Patrick E. E Crowley has just been chosen president president dent of the New York Central Railroad Railroad Rail Rail- road company He was born on a aNew I New York farm he started railroading rail rail- rau-I rau loading as a a. messenger boy then ho he became a telegraph operator then st station tion agent train dispatcher chief divIsion dispatcher train trainmaster master division superintendent general superintendent assistant general many r general manager vice and now president of oC the Toad road His schooling at school was quite limited Ho He became educated educated edu- edu in his special tine line by cont continual work and attention and 10 levi of hL h work He is now one of time the moSt prominent railroad men in this country coun- coun I coun-I try with a salary at a year Work Vork S I a boy and au a man was principal fie Ie loved hs h's w IT rl end e v ve ins attention Ito to it and became a high class man We Ve are told that Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Van Van- at one time paid his cook ten thousand a year He didn't do doth th that t because the cook could square the compass or recite Shakespeare or that lie he knew lenew Blac stone or that th-at he was a doctor ot of laws Jaws from Yale College but lie he paid him that because because be- be cause he was as an expert in cooking he was a first class cook The world pays the man that knows some seine particular particular par par- thing Let the young man manor manor or woman learn to work work-to make a living That Is the all ll important part ot of all an education Let them have a good common school education education tion and let us beware that these constitutional a. a lot of of- cranks s do not put something over oel on us that we do not ant |