Word: kelleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Association's onetime President Florence Hale. "The teacher in the new deal must not be timid!" declared President Herman Lee Donovan of Eastern Kentucky State Teachers' College. "He should participate in politics ... as the champion of great and fundamental issues. . . ." Getting down to cases. Professor John Kelley Norton of Columbia's Teacher's College beat a dead horse when he flayed the banker who was supposed to evade taxes and starve education. Retiring Presi dent Joseph Rosier let fly at the R. F. C. for refusing loans to schools while lending millions to insurance and railroad...
Again starting from scratch, Mrs. Kelley in 1919 helped put through legislation which imposed a penalty tax upon employers of child labor. But the Supreme Court was not to be fooled by any such oblique methods of social reform and in 1922 declared the penalty tax also unconstitutional. The Child Labor cause was at low ebb but not Mrs. Kelley's dauntless zeal. Only a Constitutional Amendment, she now realized, would do the trick and this...
...this time Congress was growing tired of the Child Labor issue which Mrs. Kelley and her cohorts so persistently advocated in the Capitol lobbies and committee rooms. In 1924, less from conviction of right than from a desire to wash its hands of a troublesome question, it submitted child labor to the States in the form of a Constitutional Amendment. If ratified by 36 States, the Amendment would empower Congress to "limit, regulate and prohibit" the employment of persons under...
...amendment was not ratified and Mrs. Kelley found herself up against the toughest fight in her whole life. Manufacturers who profited from child labor perverted the issue by telling mothers that if the amendment became law their own 17-year-old daughters would not be allowed to help them about the house. Farmers were stirred up to fight for their right to their sons' labor. Within two years, more than the necessary 13 states had voted adversely, thus blocking the chance of ratification. When Mrs. Kelley died, the Child Labor Amendment was buried with...
Despite the amendment's spurt in the last six months it looked last week as though Mrs. Kelley's goal, once so remote and so futile, was destined to be achieved faster and better by voluntary code agreements in Washington under the pressure of an emergency than by the cumbersome constitutional method. If so. the children of the nation can thank the Depression for setting them free...