The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-18

deed, to improve the quality Of its
citizens, physically, mentally and
morally, is clear; but the indivd-
ual has certain fundamental rights
which must be respected.
'In order to submerge the indi-
vidual, Sparta assembled the males
at 7 years, into barracks and en-
trusted their subsequent educa-
ton and training to official guar
dians. Although such measures
have been deliberately approved
by men Of great genius, their ideas
touching the relation between the
individual and the State were
wholly different from those upon
which our institutions. rest; and it
would hardly be affirmed that any
legislature could impose such re-
stricticns upon the people of a
State without doing violence to
both the letter and spirit of the
Constitution"
Yet under this unqualified pow
er proposed to be given "to limit,
regulate AMI prohibit the labor of
persons unter IS years" / affirm
again the colonization of children
taken from their parents is posi-
bic in the United States.
If this so-called amendment be
ratified, Congress- must necessari-
ly commit its enforcement to fed
eral bureaus, giving such bureaus
the power to make regulations Of
all its commercial and industrial
legislation. The matter of reGu-
lating the physical labor of per-
sons under 10 will be logically
confded to the Children's Bureau
in the Labor Department. The
matter of regulating their educa-
tional labors. or their schooling,
will be confded to the federal
Commissioner of Education. As
the Children's Bureau will send a
QUESTIONABLE to every home in the
land for exact information as to
the physical labor of those under
IS, so will the Office of Education
send like QUESTIONABLE as to the
educational labor of those under
IS, each carrying penalties upon
parents for failure to respond and
for false information.
Upon the information in these
questionnaires will be built up the
infinite rules and regulations which
parents will violate at their peril,
with inspectors sufficiently numer-
Gus and close at hand to compel
observance.
And since expansion and multi
plication Of authority and of Off
Gals is the memorable. tendency
and inevitable consequence, we
shall in all probability see the
Children's Bureau become the De-
partment Of Social Welfare, with
a Secretary sitting in the Cabinet,
and the Office Of Education be-
come the federal Department OF
Education, dominating our State
public school systems, while de-
stroving every private and paro-
chial school in the land, insofar as
students of II years and under
are concerned.
The power will inherc in fed
era1 bureaus to take control also
Of all such organizations as Boy
Scouts and Girl Scouts, not only
as to earnings from their work
with which they paw dues, but
their educational and recreational
activities as Yell. In the interest
of standardization. such orGani7a-
tons would in all probability be
dissolved, unless more fully mill
tarized, and directed as govern
mental institutions.
AS Senator Reed has declared,
this is not child labor PROPOSE
ton, in the light of its origin, its
eager espousal by communists, its
vast reaches of power far beyond
what would be necessary to con-
! troll the labor of only 1882 chill
dren engaged in harmful mine and
factory employment.
1t is my settled conviction that
it is and was intended to intro
duce the communistic principle of
rearing our youth for the State
and destroying our system of free
government.