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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1908)
THE MORNING ASTOItlAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.' SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1008. COLLEGE STUDENTS Held a Convention and Amend iho Constitution: STUDY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE The Young Collegian of Today Encouraged to Suggest Reforms in Human Activities From National Government to Dbpotal of Refuse. rROVIDKNTR. April II, 1908, An amended national constitution suited to thcc days is what a con ventinn of Brown University under graduaies in a' class in America gov eminent recently produced, after set tling in conclave a number of mooted question. Their, deliberations were qyite unprejudiced by expert advice, but fortunately their youthful con elisions do not have to be accepted as final. The decision, however, which they reached indicate pretty plainly just -what -things in the an clent constitution a group of charac teristic young men of educated intel- ' ..... - ! I.!- -Miirrnre 1111 rnicnnir mum cmzcnaniii and intensely interested in political problems would want to change. Here are a few of the alterations which young men of Brown would like to make in the constitution, lay ing down the principle that -in order to get something more definite than "those unwritten principles of the common law" "we, the people of the United States.." must formulate a constitution embodying definite and specific provisions. The United States Senate gets a bused now and then on the ground that it is a rich man's club, representing special privileges rather than the in terests of all the people. The rea sons for such an impression, if any exist, the students pt the university would remove by popular election of sentaors. They have decreed that the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senator from veigh' hopelessly) jii ttoepre'eik cihl each state chosen by direct vote of the people In each state for six yean. To tho Senate they would give a broad blanket .veto, power' upon legislation for taxation purposes, ail bills for raising revenue, originating in the House of Representatives to be either approved or disapproved, at a whole, by the senators. j Whatever Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island and other statesmen may think about railroad rate regulation Brown seniors and juniors believe in it and they get their belief into the consti tution. Incidentally they use ahe preposition "among" in speaking of the commerce of the several states and thus continue the possibility of such an Interpretation as ex-President Stuyvcsant Fish of the Illinois Cen tral has lately suggested whereby since "among" is less restrictive than "between" Commerce wholly within one state, should, it is maintained, al so come under governmental restric tion. ' One of the powers of Congress in the college boy' compact is "To prescribe tthe conditions under which transportation both of persons and things shall be conducted with for eign nations and among the severat states and with Ipdian tribes." Presidential election years are like ly to be years of disturbance of busi ness. The student convention pre scribes therefore that they nhall come less frequently. Accordingly the President shall henceforth hold his office during a term of six years. It is also provided , that President and Vice President shall be elected by di rect popular vote instead of by the present farce of an electoral college. The total votes in each municipality in each state are to be sent to the legislature and by them, after due formalities, reported to the seat of government of the United States di rected to the president of the Senate. The person having the greatest num ber of voles shall be declared presi dent. Amendments to the constitution have always been hard to secure. Brown University students would make them a little easier to get through by an arrangement for peri odically considering revisions. The evil of child labor is one against which all sorts of good peo ple and philanthropic associations in- ditiont of federal independence.- The sympathy of the collegiate reformers goes out to the infantile victims of exploitation, for they allege,' "It be ing' for the future" welfare and pros perity of the nation,iiCongr'css shall have power to regulate the labor of children. Age limits shall be estab lished in the several states according to the discretion of Congress, but no limit in any state shall be less than thirteen years." , These and a number of other amendments proposed for the federal constitution represents one of the. characteristic enterprises which col lege students engaged in the study of social science are urged to under take, not as a matter of special re search but simply as a means of be coming familiar with the broad poli-, tical principles not long ago prepared complete constitution for the state of Rhode Island. On still another occasion a new chartr for the city of of Providence was drawn up in due form. The effort is in every feasible way to make the boys take a wholesome interest in politics and thus to prepare them for the duties of citizenship. Students from the classes of Profes sors Wilson and Dcaley have made observations at the recent caucuses. Presidental elections next fall will give an admirable cnanee tor study of both the Rhode Island and the na tional political game. Where pos sible employment at the polls is sec ured for some of the boys on election day and at other times. Not only the strictly political ques tions are made the subject of reports by members of the classes, but inves tigations are conducted into various aspects of civic life. A collection of manufacturing communities such as constitute the state of Rhode Island offers all sorts of sociological prob lems of the type familiar to most American cities. Providence, for ex ample, and other cities of the town of the neighborhood are more or less defective in points of municipal de sign and civic improvements. Classes in hand, to get the data for making detailed statements as to what they think might be done to improve the appearance of the town. This as signment is undertaken with enthu siasm. One owner of a good camera I id II E ... 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I Astoria ore(Gon !LIJMil,ISSllysSi '" "J-1,-"I""J' !H.!l.'U:J!'!'IJIJJ.i!lLMa.yjJ,JJiMJWU, .,1U.'.U4.J,.J.J-J,J,'H t'-J'- returns with a series of neatly mount ed views showing bare unattractive spot in the city and suburbs which, ns he thinks, for small expenditure of money and with great attendant bene fit to the adjoining real estate, 'could h made into attractive parks. Still PAULINE NEFF MARRIED. ROBBERS OVERLOOKED $2,500. NEW YORK,Apri ll.-James P. Munson, the multi millionair medi cine manufacturer of Altoona, Pa., and Mrs. Pauline Nefif, a former act ress of tthe "Social Whirl" were another young fellow collects pictures married in Jersey City last Thursday looking along congested streets whose vistas of the State Capitol should have been left open. Ihese boys, later on, will be found taking part in the big movement for im provement of American cities. Under the competent guidance other sides of modern city life are observed. Sometimes corporation boarding houses are investigated, or the conditions in which the floating population that sleeps in lodging houses passes its days and nights. All the civic institutions which offer material for the study for such social problems as charity, crime intemper ance, marriage and divorce are not only discussed in class room, but are studied on the spot. Oftentimes the bovs from attend ance at meetings of iaboring men and agitators come back with revolution ary ideas. These, however, they will likely outgrow as they get deeper into their studies. The idea is to make them think about social matters. As soon as a student begins to think hard he sees that while there are some very pretty socialistic theories abroad, the world moves only .very slowly in their direction, and not along the mechanical lines laid down by agitators and academic philoso phers. Along with the first hand study of special phases of political and civic life goes insistence on the big prin ciples of political science and soci ology. Itis part of the Brown plan not to be afraid of general ideas, provided only that the boys, while becoming familiar with the theories, are kept in contact with the actual facts of life. night and are now at the Waldorf- Astoria. Pauline NTcff is the daughter of Judge Daniel G. " Neff of Altoona. His is one of the leading families of that part of Pennsylvania, Munson is 60 and his bride is 24. He has given millions to charity and is credited to be among Pennsylvania's richest men. His two sons are married. CHICAGO, April ll.-Two masked robbers compelled Louis Rothern berg to raise his hands over his head in his saloon last night and then stole from a safe $1,000 which1 be longed to a brewing company. They immediately, ran from the saloon overlooking the pay checks amount ing to $2,500. PBEPAKED INSTANTLY. 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