THE ROLL CALL
The Roll Call ON MEN AND MEASURES Amend the Amending Clause That is the "gateway" that must be opened so that the new needs of the people, grown out of changed social and economic con-ditions,...
...This requires a majority vote to change the Constitution...
...The function of the medical inspector in relation to children in schools is often mistaken even by medical men...
...and that no State, without its consent, shall be" deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate...
...The Congress, whenever a majority of both Houses shall deem it necessary, or on application of 10 States by resolution adopted in each by the legislature thereof, or by a majority of the electors voting thereon, shall propose amendments to this constitution to be submitted in each of the several States to the electors qualified to vote for the election of Representatives, and the vote shall be taken at the next ensuing election of Representatives, in such manner as the Congress prescribes, and if in a majority of the States a majority of the electors voting approve the proposed amendments and if a majority of all the electors voting also approve the proposed amendments, they shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this constitution...
...and 2. a majority of all the electors voting, in that election...
...Government bureaus are so in the habit of giving away documents instead of receiving them that a request like this warrants attention...
...It is raining.' "Then he laid himself down on the bed with his elothes On and I finished the weaving...
...The maxim that, "prevention is better than cure," is our motto, * * * The Dynamite Case "THERE is a larger problem than 1 the dynamiting," says John A. Fitch, in summing up the significance of the recent labor trial at Indianapolis, in The Survey...
...that the undertaking itself is still in the expert mental stage, and that no really adequate test has been given it except as a preventive of epidemic diseases...
...The difficulty of amending the constitution has made it "The Citadel" of special privilege...
...The parents, schools authorities and health authorities have been unable to avoid recognizing the fact, that the school has become the most certain center of infection tn the community...
...Chicago in 1835 maugurated this Work in its schools, followed three years later by Philadelphia...
...If necessary, we must put them in jail...
...Medical Inspection of School Children (From Report of Louisville Health Department) THERE ARE many people, of the generally well-informed, who lahor under the impression that medical inspection of schools is a comparatively new idea...
...Professor MUNROE SMITH jority rule, both as to states and as to voters...
...I want the farm, too, as bad as he does...
...No, we do not stand up at four o'clock every morning, but at five...
...But then the cane—that costs twenty cents...
...The public interest demands that this should be remedied...
...CONSTITUTIONAL authorities, enlightened judges, right thinking representatives of the people and progressive citizens everywhere agree that the federal constitution is a barrier to fundamental democracy...
...In Hungary we lived on a farm...
...If this amendment were added to the constitution, it would send to the scrap-heap the present amending clause (Artiele V) which provides— "The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several States, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress...
...We must stop the lawbreakers...
...For, when the state and local authorities weakly and shampfully neglect to interfere In a campaign of violence which led inevitably to bloodshed, the United States authorities, through the halting medium of a law designed only to protect the traveling public from ignorant carelessness, uncovered the conspiracy and punished the conspirators...
...The point is that the United States Bureau of Education Is endeavoring to get together the finest possible collection of textbooks in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Scandinavian, Dutch, and Greek languages published within the last two centuries, and hopes that possibly some of the many educators and investigators who have been recipients of the government's bounty by receiving valuable documents in the past may return the compliment now with an occasional textbook of by-gone days...
...It provided that Congress, whenever three-fifths of both houses deem it necessary, may propose amendments to the constitution, or may call a convention for proposing amendments and revising the constitution, and shall be required to call such a convention on the application of the legislatures of any number of states, embracing three-fifths of the enumerated population of the several states...
...In New York about the same time work of this character was being performed...
...The very effectiveness of this criminal court to do this thing shows by contrast the ineffectiveness of any agency we now have as competently to get an understanding of the facts and forces of the economic struggle which lay back of that conspiracy...
...Then she works till eleven...
...Its passage by Congress and its adoption by the necessary three-fourth of the states is of paramount importance...
...After the adoption of the constitution, however, no suggestion for facilitating the amending process was presented to Congress until January, 1861, when an effort was made to submit the 'Crittenden Compromise' to a direct vote of the people...
...Teachers and parents have come to know that under medical inspection it is safe for children to continue ia school in time of threatened or actual epidemics...
...The Library of Congress is aiding in the task, and the Bureau would appreciate gifts from individuals as well...
...An anti quated speller or a musty Xenophor may be just the book needed to fill as important gap in textbook history...
...Porter of Virginia...
...But if we do no more than that, we shall have gone no farther toward stamping out wrong and injustice than the doctors would toward eradicating disease if they contented themselves with sending their patients to the pest-house...
...The next resolution for a new amending clause was introduced in 1873 by Mr...
...also, that the motion to make two-thirds of the states the number necessary and sufficient for ratification was lost by only one vote...
...Epidemics have been avoided and checked...
...At twelve o'clock my man says to me, 'You go to bed and sleep...
...131) proposing an amendment to the constitution of the United States which will make it easier for the people to make amendments in the future...
...But I say to my man we will be dead before we get that farm in this country...
...J. David Thompson, Law Librarian of Columbia University, in his discussion of this subject before the Academy of Political Science last October, summarized these proposals as follows: "We have seen that the Articles of Confederation did not specify any special majority in Congress for the proposal of amendments and that the provision for a two-thirds vote was not formulated until a late stage in the proceedings of the Federal Convention when Madison and Hamilton presented their substitute clause...
...They demand that it be fitted to existing needs, Not only that, but made more easily adaptable to ever-changing social and economic conditions...
...The first actual proposal to establish an easier method of amendment was, however, contained in the original draft of the resolution for the abolition of slavery, as introduced by Senator Henderson of Missouri in January, 1864, a substitute for which ultimately became the thir-tecnth amendment...
...improvements have been noted in the cleanli-eess and neatness of the children...
...The Roll Call ON MEN AND MEASURES Amend the Amending Clause That is the "gateway" that must be opened so that the new needs of the people, grown out of changed social and economic con-ditions, may find their way easily and certainly into the Constitution of the United States "UNDER a democratic form of gov-ernment, the right to amend and alter their constitution is inherent in the sovereignty of the people...
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...You will kill yourselves at that...
...Even so, a great public service was performed by prosecution and court...
...This may be done ONLY BY MAKING IT EASIER OF AMENDMENT...
...In the United States the first regular system of medical inspection seems to have been in Boston in 1894...
...But the methods of amendment prescribed in the constitution, framed when this government was a small community with a total population of only four million, render it almost impossible of application by a nation of ninety million people, divided into forty-eight states, with a most complex social and industrial life...
...b. if ten states apply to Congress by resolution— x. adopted by the legislatures, or y. adopted by a majority of the voters in those states voting thereon...
...GRUBINSKI came at eight o'clock to do the washing...
...Previous Proposals for an Easier Method IT HAS long been recognized that this amend-ing clause is "a cumbersome piece of constitutional machinery...
...Give Us the Key...
...One dollar...
...Such a plebiscite would have been advisory only but it is interesting to note that such a proposal was made at this time of great stress when the machinery provided in the constitution proved unworkable...
...There have been definite proposals to change it...
...It makes the constitution easy of amendment only in ease any change meets with general public approval...
...And so your husband worked all night for eighty cents...
...An amend-ment may be initiated by a majority in Congress, or by ten states acting either through the legislators thereof or through a majority of the electors voting thereon in each state...
...Tramp—"Heroism, lady...
...At four I will call you to work and then I will sleep.' At four he woke me up and said: 'Now you can finish while 1 sleep...
...We favor such amendment to the constitution as will permit a change to be made therein by a majority of the votes cast upon a proposed amendment in a majority of the states, provided a majority of all the votes cast in the country shall be in favor of its adoption...
...La Follette Plan Meets the Test SENATOR LA FOLLETTES resolution...
...With the opening of our schools in September, 1909, there was initiated in this city (Louisvilla, Kentucky) under the auspices of the Health Department a systematic medical inspection of the pupils attending the public schools...
...This declaration for making the federal constitution easier of amendment was contained in "the La Follette platform" submitted to the Republican National Convention last June by the Wisconsin and North Dakota delegates...
...As she sorted the linen she remarked: "It is a bad day for drying the elothes...
...Since its innaruguratton in Boston the movement for medical school inspectors has ragadly spread in the United States until at the present time there are in operation systems of medical inspection in some form in nearly all the larger cities...
...The movement is national in scope in England, France, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Japan, and to all intents and parposses, nearly equaliy so in Ger-May...
...New Orleans Times-Democrat...
...Senator La Follette's resolution provides effectively — and safely — for that...
...Eighty Cents MRS...
...Earned It Woman—"How did you get that Carnegie medal...
...Persistently, earnestly and quietly this work is being pushed to a successful accomplishment, and as a re-salt we have today medical inspection tn its various forms, not only for the detection of contagious diseases, but also for discovering those physical defects, which interfere with the child's ability to do his school work, or which, if neglected, will seriously affect bis physical efficiency in after life...
...It follows: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the constitution: "Art...
...The plan here proposed makes it impossible for the constitution to be amended either by a minority of the states of the union or by a minority of the voters who go to the polls...
...For more than fifty years an overwhelming majority of all the voters have struggled in vain bo to amend the constitution to insure the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people...
...At ten o'clock Die Gretl puts the little ones to bed...
...It sticks to the principle of ma"The first article in any sincerely intended progressive program must be the amendment of the amending clause of the Federal Constitution...
...But why did your husband take a job like that to do over night...
...Whereupon the amendment thus proposed goes to an election—the next ensuing election for Representatives—and becomes a part of the Constitution, if it is approved by— 1.a majority of the electors voting in a majority of the states...
...A similar proposition was also offered when the fifteenth amendment was under consideration...
...The "Gateway" Amendment ON August 5, 1912, Senator La Follette introduced in the United States Senate a joint resolution (S...
...The movement as a whole constitutes both a sign and a result of the gradual awakening which has developed into a wave of interest in matters that pertain to the health of school children, which is now sweep-teg over the civilized world...
...It was raining already at four o'clock when I stood up...
...And it can never be settled by court or any number of courts, or by any body other than all the people...
...Our work is prevention...
...We come out with only eighty cents...
...I took it away from a guy that was twice my size...
...provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article...
...Write your Senators today to pass the La Follette resolution which will give us the key whereby we all may enter into our own...
...As it happens, medical inspection of schools, although it has not yet reached its majority in point of yean ia this country, has long been systematically employed on the other side of the Atlantic...
...Katherine Anthony in The Survey...
...Prom existing conditions grew up medical inspection, for the purpose of detecting cases of contagious diseases and of suggesting such cases tor the protection of other children...
...At six o'clock he must get ready to go to the factory at seven...
...It is known as the "gateway" amendment...
...Die Gretl can already weave good, though she is but twelve...
...But he is like a man crazy to buy a farm...
...Children are not dullards or de-actives by the will of am inscrutable Providence, but rather by the law of cause and effect...
...It is no part of our duty to prescribe for or treat any individual cases...
...Grubinski shrugged her thin shoulders, "I say that to him...
...We need to know more of the very things with regard to which the Indianapolis trial has left us so much in the dark—the terms between man and man in industry—between a democratic people and the corporations whose jobs mean livelihood...
...Mrs...
...The Indianapolis trial shows us the failure of a criminal court to supply us with such information at a critical juncture...
...The clause, which was dropped in committee, provided that whenever a majority of the members elected to each house, or a convention called on the application of the legislatures of a majority of the several States, should propose amendments, these in either case should be valid when ratified by the legislatures of or conventions in two-thirds of the several states, as Congress should direct...
...That was two hours that he slept...
...Wanted—Old Textbooks The government wants gifts of old or rare textbooks—at least, the government Bureau of Education does...
...This very lack is what gave occasion to the movement for a Commission on Industrial Relations which would take up the larger aspects in ways commensurate with their importance and with their neglect The Indianapolis trial has thrown this need into bolder, relief...
...The superintendent says when he gives it to him, 'I need it tomorrow.'" "How much do you get for the night's work...
...Bxcept in extreme cases, the school has taken little note of such defects of mind and body as might vitally affect the chances of success and happiness of the child, unless such defects were the more directly alarming nature of contagious diseases...
...Thompson says, meets with, "all of these specifications for a new amending clause" that modern authorities set forth, and it "embodies and adapts the principles that have been tested both in the several states and in the foreign countries which have been considered...
...When this library is complete," says Commissioner Clazton, "it should become the Mecca of all students of this phase of education...
...And he concludes: "As this proposition provides, with adequate safeguards, sufficient facility for the proposal of amendments which are widely supported and for their incorporation into the constitution when a majority of the states, and of the whole electorate have expressed their approval, it is worthy of the earnest consideration of those who, in the words of Professor Munroe Smith, have 'realized that the first article in any sincerely intended progressive program must be the amendment of the amending clause of the Federal Constitution.' " How It Would Work BY Senator La Follette's plan, an amend-ment to the United States Constitution is to be submitted to the qualified voters of the various states as follows: 1. Congress shall propose amendments to the Constitution— a. if a majority of both Houses deem it necessary...
...Amendments proposed by either of these methods were to be valid when approved and ratified by a ma-jority of the electors in the several states voting thereon, and qualified to vote for Representatives in Congress...
...Wherever established the good results have been evident...
...At six of the afternoon we begin, my man and me and Die Gretl...
...in 1897 the Board of Health of New York City appointed 134 medical inspectors of public schools, and this number has been increased from time to time until now there are 165 med-teal inspectors looking after the health of the school children of thai great city...
...But last night we were weaving the chair seats that my man brought home from the factory...
...Let us open this citadel to the people...
...This resolution is now in the Judiciary Committee, It should not be permitted to rest, as so many measures demanded in the public interest have rested, in a "pigeon hole...
...J. Res...
Vol. 5 • February 1913 • No. 8
