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Show NONVOTING CITIZENS. How eligible voters who fail to go to the polls could control elections if 1 they all should ever decide to cast their ballots is Uustrated by some figures recently compiled, from which , the following facts are taken. In the presidential election of 1932 only 58 per cent of the population of j the United States over 21 years of ; age voted. In the "off year" election elec-tion last November only about 41 per cent of the potential voters went to the polls. It may be fairly assumed, however, how-ever, that the percentage of el'gible voters who failed to exercise their ght of franchise was about the same i in both parties, so that if every potential po-tential voter had voted the result might have been practically what it was in each instance. It :s one of the paradoxes of a democracy that cit'zens who would fight for the right to vote, if the privilege were denied them, will refuse re-fuse or neglect to exercise that right when they have the opportunity. |