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*The proposed Amendment does not prohibit Child Labor. It would give Congress the power to regulate or prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age. Its purpose is to make uniform, and inferentially to raise, the bars against Child Labor. The formal argument against the Amendment is "too...
In the recent election, the citizens of that state ratified an Amendment to the State Constitution:
* Last week, the people of Oregon repealed their state income tax law by an initiative measure. The motive does not seem to have been the same as that of Florida. In Michigan, an Amendment providing for a state income tax failed of adoption.
In Michigan, private and parochial schoolmasters were gratified. Last week, at the polls, Michigan voters defeated the proposed State Constitutional Amendment- (TIME, Oct. 20) compelling all Michigan children "under the ninth grade and under 16" to attend the public schools-an amendment which would have shorn private and parochial schoolmasters...
* Four years ago, the same amendment was vetoed by popular referendum.