Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-21
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

eifht- year-old to comprehend and ab
sUrb the TASKS set by their teachers
in books as a public duty to society.
Without discussing the injustice
kich is done to millions of taxpay-
ers who are defrauded of their hon
est earnings to educate children VINO
are not old enough to be forced into
crowded schoolrooms land this plea
is sufficiently prominent to be given
attention.. / am only presenting
the viewpoint of the child, as the
best or principal topic for our law
givers and makers. Give it a chance
to grow out of infantile conditions
before it is imprisoned in the school
house.
Amendments to Federal Constitution
In the early years of the republic
there was much diSsa tiSfaction as to
the original Constitution-its text.
1t is a historic fact that more than
200 amendments were proposed
when the document was ratified by
the thirteen states after Revolution.
airy war.
This constitution was known as
''the bill of rights" Ten of these
amendments were adopted within Il
year. They declare that congress
shall not interfere with religious lib
erty. 1t must not curb freedom of
speech or of the press. There must
be no interference where the citi-
Zens assemble publicly to discuss
public affairs, nor with the right of
petition to the government.
No person shall be deprived of life
Or liberty or property without the
processes of law, with also certain
fundamental rights, unnecessary to
reprint here.
The twelfth amendment dealt with
political parties, declaring that presi-
dent and vice president shall be of
the same political faith as to party.
There our forefathers halted for
a term of years. Later on came the
cyclone of Civil war 1t was settled
in the minds of the cohquerors that
slavery should be abolished by what
was known as the thirteenth amend
ment. President Lincoln's enamel
patton decree was declared before
the Civil war ended, but the thir-
teenth amendment became Of force
in all the states of the union when
hOstilities ceased.
This was a forgone conclusion
after AppomattoX. The fourteenth
amendment was violently opposed
in the aforetime Confederate states,
because it made citizens of the ne
groes. The fifteenth amendment
gave them the franchise-the right
to vote.
There came another 1u1l as to
amendments. It would seem that Sec
tionalism either abated or the coun.
try became weary with the fierce an.
tagonism caused by the race ques-
ton following Civil war.
The sixteenth amendment might
be called the federal tax law. 1t laid
an income tax on the entire federal
union of states. The states rights
doctrine had a body blow when the
congress laid its heavy hand on the
authority of the states and demand
ed tribute to its sovereign will.
The seventeenth amendment de-
| creed the election Of senators by pop
ular vote, taking it from the legisla-
turHs. En- PEASANT it was intended to
| hold down the purchase of a seat
in the senate through bribed legis-
| lators, and the common people are
awaking to. the fact that money still
rules in all popular elections, If
symptoms are reliable as indicators.
| The eighteenth amendment was a
long time coming. It was the cul-
mination of a continuous war on in
| toxicants. It promises to be a con-
| tinuous war to secure law enforce.
ment.
| The nineteenth amendment gave
the franchise to women, recognizing
! their status as citizens.
What will be the twentieth amend
mept? I have gone over them care
| fully for the boys and girls who are