1945 Missouri Constitution Promotional Brochur

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Lindenwood University Digital Commons@Lindenwood University Regional Items Regional History 1945 1945 Missouri Constitution Promotional Brochure Missouri Committee for the New Constitution Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/regional_documents  Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Missouri Committee for the New Constitution, "1945 Missouri Constitution Promotional Brochure" (1945). Regional Items. 6. https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/regional_documents/6 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Regional History at Digital Commons@Lindenwood University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Regional Items by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Lindenwood University. For more information, please contact phuffman@lindenwood.edu. FOR A GREATER MISSOURI · THE NEW CONSTITUTION 20 GOOD REASONS FOR Why You Should. Vote The Proposed NEW STATE CONSTITUTION THE NEW CONSTITUTI ON . .. 1. Brings government closer to people, making it more representative, responsible, economical and efficient. 2. Consolidates ten tax-collecting agencies into a single department of revenue-increasing effi-ciency, eliminating duplication and saving mil-lions of dollars over the years. 3 . Takes the State D epartment of Education out of partisan palitics. 4 . Extends educational opportunities by pro-viding for kindergartens, adult education and area trade and vocational schools. 5 . Provides a modern, just and adequate system of t axation. 6 . Enables Missouri to give proper assistance to its underprivileged. 7 . Requires the Governor t o eliminate over-lapping jurisdiction of 70 boards and bureaus, putting them under 14 departments. 8 . Gives constitutional recognition to agricul-ture, the State's basic indust ry. 9 . Recognizes right of employees to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. 10. Removes discrimination against women, assuring them equal civil and political rights. 11. Abolishes the fee system for payment of law-enforcement officers, thereby eliminating many evils. 12. Requires a merit system in state hospitals and penal institutions. 13. Aids in the rehabilitation of wayward boys and girls by converting r eformatories into in-dustrial training schools, removing them from the penal department. 14, Vastly improves system of courts and pro• vides stronger guarantees of equal justice for all the people. 15. Improves legislative procedures. 16. Allows all voters temporarily absen t from their homes to vote an absentee ballot whethe.r within or without the state. 17. Provides for wider use of home rule princi-ple; in general increases power of citizens in determining their own local affairs. 18. Stimulates rehabilitation of blighted areas in cities, farms and forests under individual enterprise. 19. Facilitates state planning for postwar prob-lems. 20. I s briefer ... more flexible . .. has some 11,000 fewer words. Present Constitution has been amended 60 times and no longer has a definite and logical organization. Vig,orc;tus Campa_ign Urgently Needed To GET ·OUT THE VO'TE FOR the NEW CONSTITUTION Tuesday, February 27 Missourians race Most Important Issue Since 1875 At the Special flection, Tuesday, Feb. 27, Missouri<>ns face the most important iuue in seventy years. On that doy you will go to the polls to vote on the proposed New Con-stitution and a Greater Missouri. d Much of the present Constitution is still good -still valuable to the state. Those parts have been retained! But, unfortunately certain parts of it are outmoded. After all, the present Con-stitution was born 70 years ago-in stagecoach days! It has been amended 60 times. The result is a crazy-quilt, patched-up affair. The New Constitution makes it possible for Missouri to have government in keeping with its greatness as a State. The New Constitution is a well organized, entirely practical document. It is geared to today. It brings the flexibility to state and local government that is absolutely essential to Missouri's functioning as a great state in the postwar era. It is designed to bring a better, happier life to you and yours. It is written in the interest of the state as a whole. This Constitution is NOT one of special privilege, but one a.gainst special privilege. You and all of us want our boys and girls in the service to cowe home to a strong, sound Missouri--one better equipped to stand the rigors of any depression or other changes the postwar period may bring. ' You have a tremendous stake in this New Constitution. You and other Missouri citizens have invested approxirnately $1,000,000 to secure its nun1erous benefits. Its savings will many times offset the cost. Its benefits are now within your grasp. It would be tragic to lose them. Indifference and complacency on the part of voters can deprive Missouri of the great future the New Constitution will give our state. t ol I It is essential ... more, it is urgent .. . that Missouri voters know how they ... and how the state as a whole ... will benefit so tremendously fr-0m this fine new docurnent. This must be brought home to Missouri voters so emphatically that they will flock to the polls on Tuesday, February 27. This won't" j1.1st happen." A vigorous campaign is necessary to inform the voters and to get them out to the polls. You can play a most important roll in this great effort to make our state a better place in which to live. We most earnestly invite you to join with us in the campaign to attain this worth-while objective. HOW YOU CAN HELP .... Your help is urgently needed in the campaign for the proposed New Constitution and a greater Missouri. Here are some things you can do: • Line up your friends, neighbors and associates. • Supply them with educational literature. Have them sign and mail pledge cards. No postage required. nf your local or county cs.mpalgi, committee catuiot supply pledge c,,ards and literature, notify Missouri Committee FOR the New Corurt::ittttion, Room 300, 511 Locwrt Street, St. l,oui$ 1, Mo.) Offer your services to the local organization being formed in your coJJllD.unity to support the proposed New Constitution. If J\O)')e is being formed, get in touch with State Headquarters and help will be forthcoming. Get organizations to which you belong to en-dorse the New CobStitution and notify State HeadquartersT Distribute pledge cards and liter-ature to their members. On election day, Tuesday, February 27, be sure to remind those with whom you have talked to vote FOR the proposed New Constitution. e . m - u y tn _ our hllllo" ee 0 rogre You travel in fine company when you s11.pport the New Constitution s A partial list of orgcini::tations thtit cslready have endorsed the New Constitution ..• MI!l.qolJR1 STATE Ti;;ACHEIIC8' AssoctA.TH)N M,ssouru FA.aMER.'!. AssoctATION MISSOUl<t FARM BUREAU FEDERATION MISSOURI CoNGJU:$$ OP PAR.EN'l'S AND TEACHERS LABOR O1tGA..'<f.2ATI0NS lNCLUDU'!G A . F. OP L., c. I. 0., AN'D RAJLROAD 8JtOTJl&RB00i'.>S .As9oc1ATED brnUSTRIES OF M1ssm,"lti Missotm, LRAOUE OF Wo,o;r< VoTBBs AMERICAN AssocJATlON OF ONIVERSITY WO><t:N, Mo. Div. M!S$0URI MUNlCIP<'J, LEAGUE MrssouR1 SAVINGS AND LoAN LEAGUE MrssOIJRI SrATR JUNIOR CaAMseR OF Co><MERCE M1ssoua1 Soc1.u. BYGIEN£: AssocIATION MISSOUIII AsSOCIATI0N FOR SOCIAL WI!:. FARE Mt$SOURI SOCIETY OF P~F:&SSlONAL ENGU--8ERS M1ssouRJ DEPA.Rnu,NT AMEEICAN L1m10N M,ssouru $TATE LrPE INSU&A.NCI!: UNDERWRIT.EttS Ta£ CRUSADERS Of' MrS90URI MISSoulU L\filtARY AssocrAT!ON M1$SOURI PUBLIC E>tPEN'll1'1'URE SURVEY MISSOURI STAT" ALLIED l'RINTINO TRADES Assoc IATION Wo,um'S BAR NIBOCIATION OI' M1ssoUR1 S.Vite Clubs, Civic Club., lrulernal and other organhca-lion1, with more comi11g in daify. REMEMBER THIS IS A s~&~ It is hard to get people out to vote in a special election.,lt will require intensive effort by you and every Joyal Missourian who is FOR the New Constitution to get out the big favorable vote that will be needed. (To vote FOR the Ne~ Constit ution place an X in front of the word, FOR. OFFICIAL BALLOT S 1><:ciu l E leclio n , T u esday, l<' ebrua r y 27, 1945 ~ FOR the p roposed Cons titution □ AGAINST the proposed Cons titution (Pill«' Bn "X'" in the !Q.U.:U:C op_pasite the one ror ..-bi~h you wish to "Ole.) MISSOURI COMMITTEE FOR THE NEW CONSTITUTION JACOB M. LASHLY, Choirmon MRS. FRANK E. ATWOOD, Secretory · Room 300, 511 Locust St., St. Louis 1, Mo. ~168 

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