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Show NO TIME FOR TINKERING THERE are still a number of people peo-ple who think it is very important to presa innumerable constitutional amendments and some even advocate holding constitutional conventions In some western states. When one stops to think what would have happened to our country if the seven hundred amendments proposed to our federal constitution in the past twenty years had all been adopted, he hesitates. The single great fact remains that the federal and state constitutions have been tested out by experience and found adequate to the strain of successfully carrying on the greatest war in history. It does not seem a favorable time to alter radically the basis of our state or federal government govern-ment when we are engaged in a hand to hand struggle between democracy de-mocracy and autocracy for the whole world. Experiments and expense of holding constitutional conventions should be avoided above all things and those who have radical propositions proposi-tions to promote can well afford to await a more convenient season. |