State Committee Approves Measure To Give 18-Year-Olds Voting Rights

A State legislative committee yesterday voted to amend the Massachusetts Constitution to permit voting by 18-year-olds. The bill now goes to the House where it has a good chance of passing. The feeling seems to be that if a man is old enough to fight he is also old enough to vote. Five members, all Republicans, of the 15-man committee on Constitutional Law voted against the measure.

In a full session, the House of Representatives would not go on record in favor of Universal Military Training. The Bill, House 1025, would ask the U.S. Congress to enact legislation requiring Universal Military Training.

Hedges on Issue

But the House decided to send the measure back to the Committee on Constitutional Law without debate. It did, however, reject a suggestion that National Guardsmen still in high school be deferred from active service until they graduate.