Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-30
OLD-TIINE RELIGION
BY BISHOP ". 4. CAN

ization OF the public schools, with all the
enormous evils and Wretched invasion of the
liberty of the people which that would mean
In furtheranCe of the passage of this bad
bill, the ''Federal Bureau of Education and
the "Children's Bureau" are cooperating or
conspiring most intimately and actively. And
they are supported by the National Educa-
tional Association" With such combina-
ton very effective lobbying is more than
probable, and the average member of the
federal Senate and House Of Representatives
is very much afraid Of such compacty or
ganized bodies.
These same forces are allied for the adop-
tion of the Child Labor Amendment" to
the Federal Constitution They secured its
passage by the Congress, but they are not
finding it quite so easy to control the legis-
latures Of the states. In Louisiana, Georgia
and the CarOlitas the amendment has been
defeated, and if the people of the country
were awake to its nature and consequences
it would be rejected by all the states.
1t is a scheme of most dangerous centraIi-
cation. 1t not only invades the sovereignty
of the states, but it also curtails the liber-
ties of the people by the extension of the
authority and power OF the national gov
eminent over their dearest rights and most
sacred interests.
Commenting upon this Twentieth amend
ment to the Constitution, the editor of that
ably-COnducted paper, 1.-The Presbyterian"
(Philadelphia), says:
"There is a growing bolshevistic tendency
to conceive the people as existing for the
government instead of the government exist
ing for the people. At present this is true,
especially of the legislative department. This
proposed Twentieth Amendment is bold
stroke in this direction. 1t puts the power
in the hands of Congress to control local
interests Of the people which has never be-
fore been attempted in the history of our
nation The question of labor is not one
which affects the child life of this nation in
oro1I + &c rhn11I and
fined to certain communities and industries.
There is abundant local legislation to reach
these local cases and prevent oppression, and
to make them subject to the direct actions
of the national government would be to pro-
duce oppression and curtail liberty.
This proposed amendment strikes at
sacred institution, established by the Crea-
tor, namely the family. The effect and pur-
pose of this amendment is to take the care
of, provision for and training OF children
away from the family and place it in the
coarser hands of the state This is boil
shevism, and the bolsheYists approve this
proposed amendment. The state is too stiff
and too mechanical an instrument to care
for children and their proper rearing. The
business of the state is to defend the family,
not suppress it. If in any particular case
parents should develop the unnatural dispo-
stion which would abuse, neglect or injure
the children, there are already sufficient
local statutes to protect them.
Another strong Objection TO, the proposed
amendment made by "The Presbyterian is
follows:
''The proposed amendment is a strike at
the dignity and value of labor. Man
not made to play but to work. Play is to
work what fabrication is to machinery. 1t
accomplishes nothing in itself 1t only fits
the man to accomplish things through labor.
Labor is one of the chief agencies in the de-
yelopment and education of man. The man
who will not work shall not eat, says the
Scriptures The man who will not work
can not achieve. The Creator placed man in
the world with faculties for labor, and COM
manded him to subdue it and hold DONNA
ton over it, This is one of the marked diff
ferences between man and the lower AMI
mails They work but little and occasionally.
The commandment to man is, Six days shalt
thou labor and do all thy work But how
could it be possible for a human being to
learn to labor and acquire this disposition
to work who by the national constitution or
statistics is prohibited from laboring and
learning to labor until he is eighteen years
Old a period at which the habits and pro-
pensities of life are already determined?
The boy who has not worked and learned to
work before he is eighteen years of age will
never learn it, and he will become para
site on society, and degenerate IL his own
life Nothing could be more destructive OF
society than to prevent labor or encourage
idleness through youth"
This whole group of measures-the "Chll-
drens Bureau" the MATERNITY Bill, the
National Education Bill" and the Child
ism. They all propose as real subversion
and perversion Of the federal government
as would an armed rebellion.