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Show UN MAY NOW 5IEP UP ANO VOTE SECRETARY COLBY ISSUES PROC LAMATION FOLLOWING RAT. IFICATION BY TENNESSEE Equal Suffrage Becomes Basic Law of Country Without Pomp or Ceremony Cere-mony Women WIII Vote In November. Washington. Without pomp or coremony, Secrctnry Colby on August 'JO signed tho proclamutlon declaring tho woman suffrage amendment "to all Intents and purposes u part of the constitution or the United States." The secretary's signature was affixed af-fixed to the proclamation at his homo at 8 n. in, n few hours after ho hud received from fiovomor lloberts ot Tennessee tho certificate that final fu-vorublo fu-vorublo action on tho amendment hnd been taken by the legislature of that state. Tho quiet manner In which Mr. Colby acted was u disappointment to some suffrage workers, who had hoped to make a ceremony of his net, but they contented themselves with their own Jubilation ceremonies, Including In-cluding n mass meeting at night. They united In statements that nothing now can be douo to prevent tho women from voting In November. "The soul of the United States has hupn duly affixed to tho certificate, and the suffrage amendment Is now the nineteenth amendment to tho constitution," con-stitution," Secretary Colby unnounced on reaching his office. A desire to avoid tho limelight nnd to prevent lirnuslng feeling among suffrago workers as to whom should bo present, prompted the quiet sotting. Mr. Colby explained also that his "only purposo was to pursuu u simple duty." |