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Show NO TIME 1'OIt TINKERING I Ci There are still n number of people who think It is very importnnt to press innumerable constitutional j amendments una some even ndvo- II cnte holding constitutional conventions conven-tions In some western states II ' When ono stops to think what would have happened to our country if the seven hundred amendments proposed to our federal constltu- I tlon In the past twenty years had all been adopted, he hesitates. The single great fact remains -that the federal and state constltu- I tlons have been tested out by exper- I fence and found adequate "to the I strain of successfully carrying on I the. greatest war in history, ' I It does not seem a favorable time to alter radically the basis 'of our State or federal government when. we are engaged ,ln a hand .to hand etruggle between democracy and autocracy for the wholo world. Experiments and expense of holding hold-ing constitutional conventions should be avoided above all things and those who havo radical propositions pro-positions to promote can well afford to await a more convenient season. |
