Show II i I e I II L LETTERS TO THE EDITOR J Jt Them ThaM 1 r S I to b be Americans who con latently send anti American letters to UM tM editor of or The h t mat Buy as well wen understand right now that the tin w waste piper paper basket baket tI is yawning for such Bush literature The to be absolutely Independent but It 1 Is wholly and unqualifiedly American and aed It will not cot knowingly one line Una that In id any way war Hest t the he rood good run name honor or integrity of or the United States Staten I er u the loyal men mw who are Ire at the belm helm of or the rovern government ment P I t L Letters to the editor must be written only on one side of the paper otherwise I o h they cannot annot be used and will be thrown In the waste paper paper basket j ii A DANIEL DANIEL COMES DOMES TO JUDGMENT Ii I HEAVEN HELP THE CHILDREN ll H Ec Editor tor The Telegram I The Owen Keating-Owen federal child la labor labor la- la b bor r law Jaw prohibits employing any child il under 14 in any factory whose products are are to be bo shipped in interstate com com- if merce 1 It It also forbids chil children ren 14 to 15 to work vork longer than eight hours It is a a. good law Its purpose is perfectly per per- 11 h plain It is Intended to throw the mantle of protection about little little I ones not safeguarded by their own s 's states tes f It It t tYas was Yas fought in the senate by re reactionaries reactionaries rei re- re i a from Pennsylvania and the 1 cotton spinning states of the tho South 1 I The first formal form l court attack upon its P i v validity took place in North Carolina t w where ere children over 12 have a perfect y right to work eleven hours per da day day- The case came before Federal Judge i I it Boyd of of- the he western district of North 11 Carolina one of the crustacean suri survivals sur sur- i of of an elder day day H He is is' is 72 and hl his thinking belongs to a past a dark i and an unprogressive age He is ap apparently apparently ap- ap l convinced that parents have havea j a a. full right to say when and where a achild achild child shall work that a child has an ii j i inalienable right to work and that H when we try by law to improve mankind man- man II P kind kinde we e should not In ade family Ji I rights 5 You can still further place Boyd by remembering that in the the palmy days of Mark Hanna who hated progressive laws as he did poison Boyd became an assistant attorney general of the United States and since 1900 has been beena a federal district judge Boyd In so far as he was able has knocked out the fed federal ral child chUd labor law He lie has hag called it unconstitutional and enjoined its enforcement in the western district of North Carolina He held congress could regulate trade among the states but not the internal conditions of lab labor r. r This will bring great rejoicing to the North Carolina mill owners wh where re so soman man many many- men called for the the- draft were rejected because of physical defects sown in their youth in their slavery in inthe inthe inthe the mills Cotton spinning is the great industry industry industry indus indus- try in western North Carolina largely built up thanks to the barbarous lav laws a of the state on the frail bodies s of little children As a result of his dec decision sion Judge Boyd will have the satisfaction of knowing that in the Greensboro region when the morning whistle blows no child between 12 and 14 will be compelled compelled compelled com com- to to lie abed when the factory is just over the way waiting for his labor The federal law will have been made a nullity until the supreme court passes upon it ft t. t 4 Of course little boys and girls m may y think it would be better to sleep a little longer They may think it better to go to school a few years more during during dur dur- ing the winter seasons They may even wise think they would have a better chance of being strong men and women and not tubercular tubercular tubercular tuber tuber- cular folk if they could just have a playtime instead of a premature work work- time The thoughts of the little white Moves slaves will probably probably be long and bitter bitter ter thoughts But then they are I only children They dont don't know what is good for them But Judge Boyd knows what is good for them He has shown it by his wise decision R. R w w. |