Evening star., 1923-03-14
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS

II may seem g. too drastic punish
msnt for unruliness in school when
professor gives his warning to his
pupil that unless she behaves better
he will have to punish her-and then
actually carries out his threat by
marrying her. Is there not some
prohibition In the United States Con-
stitution against ''cruel and unusual
punishments"? However. the saucy
pupil may get even with her profess
sor yet. She will keep him in after
school or she may tie him to her
apronstring. They laugh best who
laugh last. The bride was a Miss
Nations Of Washington, and the pro-
|fessor Is the first American to join
the league Of nations and hold his
American citizenship.
y X
The ohildren's bureau of the Depart
ment Of Labor brings sad arraign-
ment Of the sins Of omission OF the
Congress in it's statistics. just issued.
showing that in the industries Of the
United States. where child labor Is
not prevented by state laws, there are
now employed. in long hours Of toll.
$4,000 children under fourteen years
Of age In 392 factories there are
|sos children under fourteen years and
I31S9 under sixteen years. Hundreds
of oases Of violation OF existing child
labor laws will be prosecuted.
Congress refused to submit for state
ratification constitutional amend
ment authorizing Congress to pass
L. l-1 ~ nh
der sixteen years of age. Laws pass
ed without the authority OF con-
stitutional amendment are declared
| by the Supreme Court unconstitu-
tiona, Children so employed never
get much schooling. They are DOOM
ed to hard and unrequited labor all
their lives.
The chief Of the woman's bureau OF
the Department Of Labor. Miss Mary
Anderson. advises that women be en-
ployed as consulting engineers In
housekeeping for all factories, laun-
dries and restaurants. She thinks
good homemakers could poke around
such places and see many things to
be improved, from a. housekeepers
standpoint. Is she not right?
| It is not many decades since the
Ipresence Of women as employees IN
factories and offices was rare. Now
they constitute majority Of the help
in many industrial lines, but men still
boss the housekeeping. They have
| hardly KEEP. up with the Joneses"-at
least with Mrs. Jones'" They still
| imagine that a man can sweep and
even dust and wash the windows.
although he scarcely ever thinks IT
worth while 10 dig into the corners
and clear under the desks. OF course.
ithey sometimes employ charwomen to
scrub; but when does the manage
Iment think of hiring a housekeeper.
such as polishes the mahogany OF
their homes or sees that Maggie does
It right?
| Dairymer discovered years ago that
lmusic in the COW stable encouraged
1.-THE gentle cows to "let down" more
milk and make milking easier. 1t re-
|mains now for the new Postmaster
General to emulate the dairy by in
stalling radio receiving sets in the
post Office of Washington. with the
view to speeding up the 1000 workers
lin distributing or sorting the mail.
| Good, sharp martial music will play
iwhile all the monthly duns are beng
sorted. and something sweet and low
will help find the love letters. APP
Ipropriate to the hunt for the letter
that never came will be a verse or
two Of 1.-The Lost Chord" Just as
different wave lengths pick out the
va rious tune vibrations of the ether,
which may be throbbing to a dozen
songs at once and only the one
! melody becomes audible, so the SEN
timental harmony will sort out only
the letters of love and the jazz will