Show i i CHILD LABOR LAWS 1 B By Y L Lr A HOle Hollenbeck e AVe her a lot about constitutional amendments no days a days a and one of i i them Is Is' to to get a constitutional al r- r I amendment t rmel s so that t congress congress congress' s' s scan can pass passa a child labor I law law av prohibiting all aU from Crom working r until they are ei eighteen years ears old ohl There are axe some sOJIe matteis relative to putting young in fn in nulls mills l' l that ought to be ber r regulated g b but some of r the labor or or- organizations ns and civic civic cranks want wane to make make it gen general r dl t so so that HIa young oung men and j Y women Jc cannot 1110 work york until mUi become IS 18 and thus bring up a g generation of loafers They want ant to centralize It It at M Washington tatt so that that it is cas easily fly handled and mid thus d destray de destroy stray stroy the prin principle pl o of the tb-e govern government ment by by t tin the I e people e in n the e several states There are are two sides sides to the hll hill hild labor question Work Is thi th t-h the e i rule Pal 1 part lart art of any boys boy's or girls girl's education n. n Work Vork teaches a bo boy or girl sirl irl how to to make a Jiving ng and to m snow enow oY how to make make n a i living diving i g Is the he important ant part of their 11 11 edu education Schooling without work unfits a ar ayoung 1 r- r young rung ung m man n in n th the struggle gl of life The work habit is is' a pleasure and if it itt i t young oung man is not taught the work habit he lie becomes a drone and a loafer and looks down upon work We Ve are are lately told that Pa Patrick lck E E. Crowley Crowle has just been chosen hosen president president president dent of the ie York Central Railroad Railroad Rail Rail- road riy He e was born horn o on a aNew I New York farm he started railroading railroading rail rall- as GS a Or messenger boy then he became a telegraph operator then station Uon agent train dispatcher chief division dispatcher dispatch r train trainmaster trainmaster master division superintendent I general Jeneral I assistant general manager general general manager ger vice-president vice and now president of the road Tad His schooling at school was has quite limited He became educated educated edu edu- in his special line by continual continua work and attention and 10 3 of his work He is now one one o of oC the most prominent railroad men In thIs taus riun- riun coun tr try with a salary at f a year ear Work as so soa a boy a youn youa man was Ids lIs principal 1 Clr Ue tie loved h his hir E EIf w If rk end nd tie w IC Savo his 1115 attention to ItO ItOH H jt and became a high class man We Ve are told that Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Van- Van at one tine time paid his cook ten thousand a year ear He lie didn't do that because the cook could square the compass compass I or recite recile Shakespeare or that that he lie knew j or that he was a doctor of ot laws from front Yale College bu but he paid him hint that because because because be be- cause he was an expert in cooking he was a first class cook The world pays the man that lm knows ws some particular particular particular par par- thing Let the young manor man manor or woman learn to work to work to make a a living lh That Is tho the all Important part of an education Let them layer a good common school education education tion don and let us beware that these constitutional amender a rs a a. lot of cranks do not t put something i over ver veron on us that we wedo do not want 1 |