The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-18
SUPP RENE COURT
HARD HIT BY
WOMAN
Mrs. Kelley Rates Minimum
Wage Ruling With bred
Scott Decision.
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indispensable prerequisite to appoint
ment that justices have judicial ex-
perience.
''The outlawing Of the minimum
wage law" said Mrs. Kelley, 'estao-
fishes in the practical experience of
the unorganized, the unskil1ed, the
illiterate, the alien, and the indus
trially subnormal women wage earn
ers, the constitutional right 10
starve."
slavery for. Children"
1.-THE decision" she continued, cob
liberated workable, and necessary
law for freeing wage-earning In the
District of Columbia from the lash
of starvation
Under the Fifth and Fourteenth
amendments of the Constitution
as interpreted by the court, it is
idle to seek to assure, by orderly
processes of legislation, to wage
earning men, women or children,
life, liberty or the pursuit Of hap
piness. This decision fills those
words with the bitterest and most
cruel mockery. Following the child
labor decisions, the wage-earning
children returned to their wage
slavery. Following the latest ons,
wages of the most ill-paid women
| in the District Of Columbia have
been cut in half.
"In view Of it's powers, unique in
the entire world, the personnel of
| the Supreme Court of the United
| States is a subject of the uttermost,
permanent Importance to- this
| nation. In the choice OF judges
| political affiliations, religious as
sociations and geographical position,
all have great weight. 1t Is a
singular circumstance that judicial
experience is not requisite-even
presiding justices have been chosen
without reference to, 1t. In the
future. the monopoly of the inter
probation and administration of the
law by men alone can, never rightly
be accepted without criticism and
protest. 1t is survival of the
age before women were full citi-
zens.
New Standard Urged.
urgent as is the undermining of
the Constitution, the adoption of
new standards for the personnel of
| the court is the first essential. The
number of justices is too small.
| They are compelled either to give
1
pick, vital questions constantly re-
| ferred to them, or to defer 1heir
decisions and thereby inflict UNI
measured hardship. The power of
| five judges is too great as recent
experience has proved"
The general topic assigned for
| today, in group meeting and gen.
era1 session, is Industry" and the
| speakers and delegates are thresh-
| ing out numerous problems con-
nected with the subject with the
thoroughness that marked yester-
days opening consideration of
| Health
Morning group meetings were
held as follows:
Group 1, Calvary Baptist Church;
topic, Social Case Work in In
dustry."
Group 2, Mt. Vernon M. e.
| Church; topic, Social Research in
Industry"
Group 3, N. Y. Avenue Presby-
terrain Church: topic, 1.-The Com
munity and Industry
Group 4, Public Library; topic,
Recent Industrial Investigations"
The evening general session will
| occur at Memorial Continental Hall.
This afternoon, following a series of
luncheons, meetings of delegates in
terested in kindred subjects will
occur.
Already talk is rife among the
2 900 delegates to the convention as
to election possibilities, though bal
loting will not occur until next
Tuesday, the day before the closing
of the great meeting.
I The leading candidates for the
presidency are Miss Grace Abbott,
director of the Chi1dren's Bureau,
Department of Labor, and William
| j. Norton, secretary of the Detroit
Community Union. Nominations for
all positions may be added from the
| floor to those already carded.
Loans for Homes.
Instead of allowing banks to
make profit of from 4 to per
cent on monies deposited by the
people in postal savings branches,
! the Government should institute a
| system of long term loans to work
ers who wish to build homes, Mrs.
Edith Elmer Wood, Of Cape May
Court House, N. J., suggested in an
| address at the morning general
session.
The United States Government is
I ''AC OTIAy oIlC III SI1S uS-
clared, that does nothing practical
to facilitate home ownership.
[ Postal savings deposits are the
{ peoples own" she said. THE Gov
eminent pays them per cent, and
! deposits with banks which pay the
| Government IN per cent. Then the
| banks lend at 6 or 8 per cent for
their own benefit. Why shouldn't
the Government lend, instead, to
working men who want to build
themselves new homea--at the same
low interest rate az it pays. And
give them twenty-five years to re-
pay the principal, as they do in
| Belgium. or thirty-six years as they
do in New Zealand?"
Group Relations.
The economic perplexities OF the
times must be met by betterment Of
group relations. K. c. Lindeman, re-
search expert of New York, main
| tanned
Stockholders, directors, manage
ment, workers, courts and govern
mental bodies must ultimately work
out community of INTERPRETATIONS,
Lindeman prophesied. "if practical
form of ethical procedure is to be
produced. This can be accomplished
only by utilizing the scientific
method. Industrial technique must
be made ethical, and social ethics
must be made technical"
Either self-seeking by employer