Defeated Again

The infant is sickly and the chance of its recovery is small. Already it had suffered three or four accidents and achieved only two convalescences. Last week, it was smashed again--the infant which is the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

The Legislature of South Carolina in both branches rejected it without a solitary vote being cast in its favor.

The score of ratifications and rejections now stands:

RATIFIED BY: Arkansas, California.

REJECTED BY : North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina.

PRACTICALLY REJECTED BY : Massachusetts,* Louisiana./-

Needed to survive, 36; needed to kill, 13.

With about 40 state legislatures in session and the amendment pending before many of them, its fate is likely to be decided during the next few months.

* Defeated by a popular referendum, practically, although not legally, binding upon the legislature.

/-Consideration indefinitely postponed.