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Will Vote on Amendment
The New York Legislature endorsed a proposed State Constitutional amendment which will allow for a $45,000,000 soldiers' bonus-provided the voters of the State ratify it at the November elections.
Most of the hilarity centers about a quart bottle of champagne, on which one of the young blades (Mr. Young and one of the ex-fiancées (Estelle Winwood) get unwarrantably but agreeably mellow. Other indignities offered the recent amendment are highballs in the first act, cocktails before the...
We have modified the Constitution to conform to this change in attitude. The 13th Amendment (anti-slavery), 14th (United States citizenship), 15th (Negro suffrage), 16th (Federal Income Tax), 17th (Manner of Electing Senators), 18th (Prohibition), and 19th (Woman Suffrage), have all had the purpose of unifying "this United States."
Now it is proposed to nationalize divorce laws. Senator Arthur Capper, of Kansas, has proposed a Constitutional Amendment permitting it. Except for those people who still adhere to the old conception of states rights, practically everyone is in favor of the new proposal. The specific provisions of the bill which...