Seward daily gateway., 1925-01-08
THE TWENTIETH AMENDMENT AFFECTING CHILD LABOR SWEET SIXTEEN AND
 LAZY JIM-SEVENTEEN.
By F. WESLEY PHELPS

''The big boob was child until he was eighteen years old because Ma didn't want him to work be- cause Pa could support all three yet awhile she reckoned.' While sweet-sixteen spends Pa s wages keeping up with the styles and poor working boy seventeen years old eopes with Ma s baby past sixteen the legislature is busy adopting the Twenti- eth Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving right to prohibit child labor of eighteen years of age.
 This magazine (the Pacific Coast Mechanic) has never to any great extent concerned itself about States rights being abused by the Federal Govern ment but there times when precedential position must undergo change, and the proposed Child Labor Amendment, doubt, makes good beginning The Amendment is opposed for several reasons. First because if adopted, it will prohibit the 43 states from enforcing their child labor laws which are now so we'll regulated and surrender that duty to the Federal Agent. It is so we'll enforced no child under sixteen in the State of Washington, fourteen years old in some states, is allowed to do manual labor. It is opposed secondly because it would surrender the privileges of the above men, toned state rights to the federal government. We surrendered our local option and state prohibition privileges to the Federal Government through the Eighteenth Amendment and now all you see and
 
 eral Agent is chasing boolegger. If the twentieth amendment is adopted this will probably change some, the Federal Agent will remain the same but his victim will be father mother who is violating the law-the Twentieth Amendment, by having their daughter and fifteen and seventeen to help earn living and be reared as industri- ous young woman and instead of lazy, trlfllng and good-for-nothng liabilites-"not worth the 4Lo +L, o1I goes.
 Halt! with your unreasonable argument, says sympathizer for the bill and cries out, You are enslavng the tots of the country who unable to defend themselves Perfectly natural for the cal amty howlers. It is Socialism Communism that the twentieth amendment will cast upon us It will start system which when ill full operation will be- come the free moral agent of children, sub- stituting parental control.
 To permit compel child to do manual la Dor is the thing this magazine and it's editor will not support but will oppose unsurrendermgy. But when it becomes, involves the questions of inter- ferng with and destroying ambition prohibiting ap- prentices acquiring mechanical knowledge and some broken down and disspated twentieth century apos- tie is left to decide the exact date when my neigh bor little frail poorly nourished Johnnie is to be no longer child but become young man, and when the son of my buddy workman at his bench, big as his father, is to be known child man and such apostles say eighteen years, then we oppose. However, let it be understood demand the en- forcement of Child Labor Law by the States as it now is being done in forty-three States and let the Federal government relative to child labor stay right where the tenth amendment says 1t shall re- main The tenth amendment provides, "The pow CTS not delegated to the United States by the Con- stitution prohibited by it to the states served to the states respectively or the people,
 The eighteen amendment affected the tenth amendment and the twentieth amendment if adopt