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...reporter's inquiry was inspired by the recent attack made on the validity of the 14th amendment and the attempt to prohibit negroes from voting. The suit is about to be brought in the name of H. E. Bolte, an attorney of Washington, D. C. Mr. Bolte claims that Walter L. Cohen, negro controller of customs of the the port of New Orleans, "falsely alleged himself to be a citizen of the United States" when he took the oath of office. It goes on to say that he is a "person of African blood and descent", and that when...
...Each club shall prohibit its undergraduate members and its memberselect (meaning thereby persons notified of their election but not yet initiated) from canvassing any undergraduate before the opening of college in his sophomore year...
...states have taken action on the proposed Constitutional Amendment* giving Congress power to regulate or prohibit child labor. Arkansas ratified it, Georgia rejected it. Before the Georgia Assembly went many speakers, among them ex-Senator Hoke Smith†objecting to the Amendment as an invasion of States' Rights. It was defeated by a vote of 170 to 3. The State Senate acted similarly. In Georgia, 89,000 children between the ages of 10 and 15 years- 20.8% of that age-group-are workers. Boys of 12, if orphans, are permitted to work in cotton mills. There is a maximum...
...State of Georgia has neither the right nor the power to give to Congress the power to limit, regulate or prohibit the labor of Georgians under 18 years of age, or of any age, because such power reestablishes in America a system of slavery with public ownership substituted for private ownership, and would place Congress in control of every home in the land between parent and child. State Representative McCorsey said much the same thing in more vigorous idiom: "I don't want any more monkeying with the buzz-saw by that bunch in Washington...
...development of Muscle Shoals and will prohibit farmers from getting cheaper fertilizer to help them. You have 'denied consideration of the McNary farm-relief bill, and the so-called Norris-Sinclair bill, and it looks as if my friend from Idaho (Mr. Gooding) would not be able to get up his reclamation bill. Nothing has been done to help the farmers...