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are those of the writer and not necessarily
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NATIONAL
EDITORIAL
_ ASSOCIATION
No! YOU Shouldn’t Vote—If!
By Charles Goolsby
Recently, in Eastern Germany,
an election was held in which over
90 percent of the eligible “voters”
cast ballots. Of course there was
no place on the lists of printed
names for the individual to show
his disapproval of any of the peo
ple, nor of any of the practices,
nor of any of the treatments
which the East Germans have
been receiving at the hands of
, communist government there.
However, it is not accurate to say
that they did not have a choice
because they had two of them—
They could either vote “yes” (un
der the coersion of red star.bayo
nets) or they could refuse to vote
at all (and be herded off to Si
berian labor camps under the co
ersion of red star bayonets).
Now, here in America, we don't
believe that such things are pos
sible, so if 10 or 15 percent of
the voters register and then turn
up at the polls, we think that’s
pretty good. We usually assume
that somebody else will vote like
us so we don’t need to. Some of
these days we will find that the
people who were elected because
we didn’t vote will have us yoked
by things we don’t like.
Now editors are always trying
to get people to do things, like
registering before Friday night,
October 28, and as a result their
editorials on the subject go un
read. That’s why I decided that
you people who are 21 and over
and don’t vote might like a few
more excuses to add to your list
of “bona fide” reasons why you
will refuse (1) to register before
Friday night and then (2) to vote
on Nov. 7:
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1. If you are an American citi
zen but don’t care to be.
2. If you don't think you ought
I to have anything to say about
roads, taxes, or the people who1
! make the laws that the sheriff and
the corner cop enforce.
3. If you don’t believe in De
mocracy or don’t care for liberty.
4. If you think we ought to call
out the State Guard to either force
you to vote or to ship you to a |
God-forsaken concentration camp
like the Russian communists do. J
5. If you are opposed to good
government. (After all, if you
vote for good public officials, you
get good government); or
6. If you don’t think you're as
good as the next person.
If you agree with any of these
reasons, you can feel quite justi
fied in staying away from the
democratic, secret ballots of the
American polls. If you don’t think
they are such hot ideas, I’ll know
it by the election totals.
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Novel True’—Governor
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ten about Alabama’s prisons,”
Governor-nominate Gordon Per
sons told members of the Alabama
Broadcasters Association meeting
here last week. Promising to
clean up the prison system, he
told his listeners tht the charges
in Haywood Patterson’s novel
about the state’s prison system
were true.
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Alexander Majors, sparkplug
of the famous freighting firm of
Russell, Majors and Waddell,
probably is best known as a man
who could issue an edict against
“swearing, gambling, and intem
perance,” and make it stick even
among a motley assortment of
bull-w hackers, traditionally
among the toughest characters on
the plains.
It is not so generally known that he
was an administrator of exceptional abil
ity and that much of the spectacular
success enjoyed by nis firm was due to
the skill with which he manager its
freighting caravans.
In his autobiography, Seventy
Years on the Frontier, Majors de
votes a chapter to the manage
ment of an overland train. Read
ing it gives one an inkling as to
why his firm stood pre-eminent
in the overland freighting busi
ness out of Nebraska City and
Leavenworth.
He was convinced of the su
periority of oxen as freighting
animals. “Oxen proved to be the
cheapest and most reliable teams
for long trips, where they had to
live upon the grass,” he wrote.
“They did good daily work,
gathered their own living, and if i
properly driven would travel
2,000 miles in a season, or during !
the months from April to No- |
vember; traveling from 1,000 to
1,200 miles with the loaded
wagons, and with plenty of good
grass and water, would make the
return trip with the empty wagons
in the same season.”
Even more important was the skill and
discipline of the teamsters. Unlike many
freighters, Majors did not leave the man
agement of the train solely to the direc
tion of the master. He drew up and
printed a set of "Rules and Regulations”
for the conduct of a wagon train. They
were distrusted among the men and it was
expected that they would be strfctly ob
served It was in these that the famed
injunction against "swearing, gambling
and intemperance" appeared.
Though some of the bullwhack
ers must have chafed under the
rigid discipline, Majors was satis
fied that his system produced the
desired results. He records in his
autobiography, for example, that
his men could yoke six pairs of
oxen and have them hitched to
the wagon and ready to move in '
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Tellni le^a educated John Rhoden,
student of sculptor of Columbia
university, was among the If) stu
dents selected from over 300 can
didates for the $1,000 Tiffany
Foundation fund for 1950. The
sculptor is a veteran of World
i War II and a protege of Richmond
Barthe. Rhoden expects to study
in Italy.
16 minutes—a job that often took
undisciplined teamsters almost an
hour.
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LEGAL NOTICE OF MEASURE t
TO HU VOTED UPON NOVEM
BER 7, 1950
(BALLOT TITLE)
CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS
PROPOSED BY 1949
LEGISLATURE
For amendment of sections 6
and 7, Article III, of the Consti
tution of Nebraska, providing for
either annual or biennial sessions
of tbe Legislature, providing re
strictions on business that may be
transacted by the Legislature in
even-numbered years, providing
for election of members of the
Legislature for four-year terms,
and providing for payment of
compensation to members of the
Legislature as may be provided
by law, Q
Against amendment of sections
« and 7, Article III, of the Con
stitution of Nebraska, providing
for eitlier annual or biennial ses
sions of the Legislature, providing
restrictions on business that may
be transacted by the Legislature
in even-numbered years, providing
for election of members of the
Legislature for four-year terms,
and providing for payment of com
pensation to members of the
Legislature as may be provided
by law. Q
TEXT OF PRtfroSED CONSTI
TUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NE
BRASKA,
Section 1. That at the gen
eral election in November, 1950,
there shall be submitted to the
electors of the State of Nebraska,
for approval, the following amend
ments to sections € and 7, Article
HI, of the Constitution of Ne
braska, which are hereby pro
posed by the Legislature.
“Sec. 6. The Legislature sbaM
consist of not more than fifty
nor less than thirty members. The
sessions of the Legislature shall
be annual or biennial as provided
by law. If the sessions are held
annually, in even-numbered years
tbe Legislature shall not transact
any business except to provide
appropriations for the expenses of
government and to confirm ap
pointments unless specifically re
quested to do so by message of
the Governor.
See. T. At the general election
heM in November, 1952, there
shall be elected such number of
members of the Legislature as
may be provided by law from
even-numbered districts for a
term of two yea**, and such num
ber of members of the Legi&ia
tuse as may be provided by law
from odd-numbered districts tor
& term of four years. Thereafter
at each general election, success
ors of members whose terms as
pire In January following shall
be elected for a term of four
years. AH terms shall begin
at noon oa the first Toes
! day In January next ensuing the
general election at which the
member was elected. Kach mem- ^
ber shall be nominated and elect- V
ed in a nonpartisan manner and W
without any indication on the
ballot that he is affiliated with or
endorsed by any political party or
organization. The aggregate sal
aries of all the members shall be
determined by the Legislature and
payable in such manner and at
such times as shall be provided by
law. In addition to his salary,
each member shall receive and i
be paid an amount equal to his
actual expenses in traveling by
the most usual route once to and •
returning from each regular or
special session of the Legisla
ture Members of the Legislature
shall receive no pay nor per
quisites other than said salary
and expenses. Employees of the
Legislature shall receive no com
pensation other than their salary
or per diem.’*
Sec. 2. That the propose#
amendments shall be submitted
to the electors upon a ballot sep
arate from that npon which the
names of candidates appear, after
publication once each week for f
four weeks in at least one legal .
newspaper in each county where a> J
newspaper is published Imra^di- a
ately preceding the general elec- *
tion In 1950. The ballot for the
submission of the proposed
amendments shall be as follows: f
- 1
“Proposed Constitutional f
Amendments
For amendment of sections 8 I
and 7. Article III. of the Const!- f
tution of Nebraska, providing for
either annual or biennial sessions
of the Legislature, providing re- f
strictions on business that may be
transacted by the Legislature iw |
even-numbered years, providing .
for election of members of the
Legislature for four-year terms, |
and providing for payment of g
compensation to members of the A
Legislature as may be provided* (
by law. □ , j
Against amendment of section*
8 and 7, Article 111, of the Con
stitution of Nebraska, providing ,
for either annual or biennial ses
sions of the Legislature, providing
restrictions on business that mag ,
be transacted by the Legislature 1
in even-numbered yearn, providing :
for election of members of th* ,
Legislature for four-year term*
and providing for payment of conn j
pen sa tion to members of tfc*
Legislature as may be provided bf
law. □ “
Sec. 3. That the proposed
amendments, if adopted, siu*f be
in force and take effect homed*
ately npon completion at the
canvass of the votes, at wbidl
time It shaM be the Aatjr at ttg
Governor to proclaim the ameodS
meats adopted as a past of to
Constitution of Nebraska.
Approved May *3, >949
Beeper*fatly swheniteed,
FRANK MARSH. ,
Secretary of State
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