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...first ("Pioneer") Post of the American Legion (George Washington No. 1) established in the U. S. following World War I, may I ask that you report in your next issue's columns on the following phase of compulsory military training: "What provision, if any, does the Burke-Wadsworth Bill make to guarantee to these thousands of proposed conscripts the right of suffrage in all elections subsequent to their enforced induction into the military or naval establishments of the United States...
...Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri got the Burke-Wadsworth Bill amended to provide that conscripts may vote "if entitled to by State laws." But under the Constitution the States determine the qualifications of voters. There are 48 different State laws on the subject, and six States-Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania-make no provision for absentee voting. The Army's Judge Advocate General says that in 29 States soldiers and sailors are barred from the polls...
Since we started polling on this issue months before the Burke-Wadsworth Bill was introduced in Congress, we have carried it on for trend purposes. Actually, a question dealing with the principle of the Burke-Wadsworth Bill yields virtually the same national results...
...night last week, after 76 hours of debate, the Senate passed the Burke-Wadsworth Compulsory Military Training Bill, 58 to 31. The Senate had approved peacetime conscription, but the bill provided the biggest burst of fireworks in 1940's Presidential campaign. Morning of the final day, Georgia's smooth-faced Senator Russell popped up with an amendment jointly sponsored by Lousiana's Senator Overton, ardent New Dealer and onetime Huey Long ally: ". . . Whenever the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy determines that any existing manufacturing plant or facility is necessary for the national defense...
...Most persons think of ballistics as a simple microscopic comparison of a few bullet irregularities with grooves in gun barrels. To Dr. Wadsworth this is "ridiculous." Any two scratches, he claims, can be "matched." He showed his colleagues a case full of slugs of a thousand different shapes, flattened, split, crumpled. Said he: "No two bullets fired from the same gun are ever exactly alike...