The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-01
Waning To Act | Now Sent Out
 By Mrs. Park :

If we want to free this generation and the next. one from the stigma of child labor, we must act now! We must not drift along !''
 This is the warning sent out by Mrs Maud Wood Park, president of the Ma tional League of Women Voters, who, as chairman of the woman's joint con gressional committee--the women's lobby--is directing the woman's cam pGign for congressional approval of a proposed child labor amendment.
 If the intelligence and health of the nation is to be fostered and protected, 1t is upwise to further delay giving Congress power to prohibit child la bor, Mrs. Park says. The people can not afford to wait for the forty-eight states to raise child labor standards" abe contends.
 Tn the course of a hundred years all the states might be brought to see how bad a thing child labor is, but a great many children can be worked to death in hundred years," Mrs. Park says "The whole intelligence and health of the nation can be lowered by child labor, if we have to wait until the men in every state, who defend child labor, are brought to their senses.
 We are not working to get law through Congress forbidding child la Dor. The amendment to the constitu- ton will not do that. It will merely give Congress the power to make a national law regulating and prohibit ing child labor, that is, power to set up. minimum standard for the whole country. The amendment must be rati- fled by thirty-six states"
 In reference to amending the con stitutiorf; Mrs. Park has these difinite ideas
 I've do not think of amending the constitution except in an undoubted emergency and the men who made the constitution foresaw that as conditions changed it would need additions. They provided, therefore that it can be amended, but never easily, or in haste. It was amended twelve times before all the states had even adopted it, and then, only seven amendments have been ad- ded in nearly a hundred years.
 T do not believe that the feeling we all have that the constitution must not be carelessly or lightly added to will ever be lost; but when we have tried all others ways, when Congres with the best will in the world cannot do any thing to stop the industriaP slavery of children, a slavery which has increased terribly since the last child labor law was. declared contrary to the consti-# tution, believe we all feel that in ask ing Congress to give children fair chance in the world we are doing a wise and just thing.
 MISS SPRINGER WEEDS
 MIR. SOUTH
 A quiet wedding. in which a number of friends were interested, was solemn ized Friday evening < at the residence of Dr. J. E. billiard, when Miss Alice T. Springer became the bride of Mir. James T. South. ;R The .remony was performed in the presence of only a few friends and rela- : tives of the young people, who left inn mediately for short wedding trip after which they will be at home on Fifteenth street, south.
 The bride formerly lived in Cullman, but has made number of friends dur ing her residence iA Birmingham. Both Mfr and Mrs. South are former stu dents of the University of Alabama, where Mir. South completed a course in the law department and is one of Bir-4 mingham's most popular young lawyers. HARRIET FUTILE BARTLETT TO GIVE LECTURES
 Mrs. Harriett Futile Bartlett of New York, noted lecturer, will give a series of lectures at Cable hall, beginning this evening at 8:15 under the aus pices of the Theosophical Society of Birmingham.
 Her subject for this evening will be 'sThe Bible Rendered Comprehensive" On Sunday afternoon at 5 p. m., she will talk on "The Coming of Christ and Masters of Wisdom" Monday ev ming at s :15 she will talk on "Litera ture Illuminated" The public is in yited to her. Mrs. Bartlett