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Show B AIMS BSBJ Child Labor and the U. S. Constitution stance the laws passed have been ruled unconstitutional. The latest decision was that rendered May IB by the Supreme court in the case of Bailey versus the Drexel Furniture Furni-ture company, which pronounced the portion of the revenue act which attempted at-tempted to regulate the employment of children unconstitutional, because It conflicted with the tenth amendment' "Apparently, the situation can be met in no other way than by an amendment to the Constitution. The subject Is of such importance, the object to be attained Is so fundamentally funda-mentally sound, that whatever is necessary to its consummation should be done. Because under the decisions of the Supreme court we can only regulate the employment of child labor, la-bor, apparently, by a constitutional amendment, I have proposed an amendment to the article, which the Supreme court has held Is an Insurmountable Insur-mountable barrier at the present time to this humane and beneficent legislation." legisla-tion." The amendment to become effective, effec-tive, would have to be passed by a two-thirds vote in both the house and senate and then be ratified by the legislature."! of three-fourths of the states. WASHINGTON. A Joint resolu-i resolu-i tlon proposing an amendment to ttie Constitution of the United States to prevent exploitation of child labor has been introduced in the senate sen-ate by Senator Johnson of California, The tenth article as amended by John-con's John-con's proposed change, would read : "Section 1 The powers not delegated dele-gated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states, respectively, to the people, provided however, that the congress shall have power to regulate or prohibit through-tit through-tit the United States the employment f children under eighteen years of ATe." "Congress on several occasions has Bade the effort to enact child labor laws," Johnson said. "In each In- Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder? TVflSS MARY CULBERSON, daugh-1VX daugh-1VX ter 0f senator and Mrs. Culberson Culber-son of Texas, whose love affair with Alexander E. Robertson, a British war veteran, recently led to sensational charges of kidnaping, has gone to Europe. She was accompanied by a group of friends, but not by any member mem-ber of the Culberson family. In starting start-ing abroad Miss Culberson was carrying carry-ing out plans decided .on some months ago. said a statement Issued hercf by Senator Culberson. Friends of the Culberson family said the Intention Is to show that the affair with Robertson, who charged that agents of Senator Culberson kidnaped him In Newark In a plot to spirit him out of the country, is definitely at an end. Miss Culberson has not seen Robertson Rob-ertson since last March, although they exchanged letters and telegrams until the young Englishman obtained an Indictment against John Elites, s Burns detective, on the kidnaping charge. When Robertson was In Washington trying to Interest the British embassy In his case Miss Culberson refused to be seen by a representative of Robertson. The affair between the two started ve months ago at Austin, Texas, and continued In Washington, when Rob- ertson followed Miss Culberson to the home of her parents. In order to learn something about Robertson's Identity, Senator Culberson hired Burns detectives, with the result that It was decided to oppose the match between the two, which had gone to the point of Robertson's proposal of marriage. As part of the breaking up process Senator Culberson proposed, through the detectives, to finance a trip for Robertson Into South America, where he wanted te go to make a fortune. Robertson went with detectives to Boston where he was to take the steamer. The charges of kidnaping by an aunt of Robertson caused the trip to be abandoned. Robertson Is twenty-four and Miss Culberson Is twenty-one. Get Ready to Eat Reindeer Meat, Folks brought in regularity and will be factors In feeding not only Alaska but part of the United States. As a palatable, palata-ble, nourishing food, reindeer meat finds favor wherever marketed in America. To the Eskimo the velndeer Is most valuable. Alive, It represents a value of $25 a' head. It Is an excellent sled animal, traveling In snow too deep for dogs. Slaughtered, his ment assures as-sures a food supply and a trading commodity, com-modity, and the skin provides the ma-1 terlnl for making every garment which the Eskimo wears. Twenty-five years ago the Eskimos owned nothing. Today, those In the reindeer Industry own herds worth over $4,000,000, have an assurance of a profitable livelihood, and real business Judgment. Here Is where Lopp has succeeded. He's chief of the Alaska division, United States bureau of education, and has taught the Eskimos the reindeer business. PS.W", will tell rou of Loop's part In the Point Barrow relief expedition of 1S97, when with four Eskimos be drove 400 relndeor across the treacherous treacher-ous Ice and wind-swept Arctic winter coast for 750 mllos. to feed a starving people. SOMETHING new to eat! Get ready to eat reindeer meut, folks. The reindeer experiments of Uncle Sam and William T. Lopp In Alaska have proved a great success. The first drive of 1,500 from the home range to a big distributing point, already is under way. More than 800 miles will be traversed by this herd, moving from Good News bay to Rlley creek on the Alaskan railway. The herd will pasture and fatten on the moss-covered plains along the railway, in the fall they will be slaughtered. Other herds will follow this to the vicinity of the railroad, where a 12.000 square mile area Is open for feeding them, and transportation Is at hnnd. The surplus from other herds will be Senate Gets Fun Out of Tariff Bill THE senate manages to , get some fun even out of the discussion of the tariff bill. Senator Harrison of Mississippi made a speech the other day which was. to say the least, open to tbe suspicion of being facetious. Senator McCumber of North Dako' then referred to him as ."the funny man of the sennte." Thereupon Senator Williams of Mississippi rallied to the defense of his colleague. The Congressional Record reports the proceed pro-ceed ngs thus In part: Mr. W'Hinms Now, Mr. President, to come buck to the senator from North Dakota (Mr. McCumber). for whom I have a real, an earnest, and an honest good opinion; I would not select him os a Judge of who was "a funny mat " bemuse he has not sense of humor enough to be a Judge of who Is furny, outside or Inside of blmself even. lie Is a regular bonny Scotchman, and what old Samuel Johnson kM about the nice Is true about him. It will be remembered that Knii) Johnson said if you wanted to get a Scotchman to apm-eclate a Joke, you hud to split his skull with ii hatcl'fl rod put the JoKe Inside Ud'ly. Mr. McCumber: It often happens that when some of my good friends think they are humorous I thank God for my Scotch dullness that Is unable to understand their particular kind of humor. Sometimes 1 think that they mlstiike hilarity for humor. They get confused. They ore like a drunken man who thinks he Is humorous humor-ous and tells me that he Is a humorist, nnd I say: "No; you are drunk." It Is a difference In the vlewpi Int. It Is a difference In our Idea of what constitutes con-stitutes humor. If I cannot Join In that klml of htstior. I suppose I shall be accused of having a dull Scotch intellect; but, after all, it ! a question of what you call huiU'f and what you call seiisa |