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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 17 July 27, 1938

Variety—Spice O' Life

Variety—Spice O' Life.

There was variety in America—variety of climate, sports, recreation and also of racial settlements, such as Harlem in New York. Power and wealth were offered as opportunities. Then Mr. Gilton considered the varieties of leadership. Why, everyone had a chance to become the President, and who would not be pleased to some time? There was equal opportunity for all—had not George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, men of diverse fortune, occupied the Presidential Chair?

"Mr. Scotney has attacked the Constitution. Well, the Constitution is in the form the people want, so what's he squawking about!"

There may be evil effects in the Constitution, but other young countries, Argentine and Brazil, had taken clauses from it, and modelled their own Constitutions along the lines of U.S.A. They were not forced to do this. Surely this showed it was a sound one, and justified the assertion that the people of America had found the formula for happiness.