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Show Scribe Discusses Many Things By ROBERT CROOKSTON When you people write to your soldiers why don't you remind them that Utah has the lowest per cent of people who exercise their right to vote of any state in this nation, and that our pri- flowing mountain stream going on and on unharnessed? The Roosevelt Government has a good- example of economy at the Bushnell hospital. The ' wives of soldiers and those of the air corps can go there to keep appointments with the stork and bring home the. precious bundle from heaven and avoid embarrassment of ia mortgage on the home. mary election has been set earlier. The primary election will be about July 11 and already many of our soldiers have written to the Secretary Sec-retary of State asking to send them the applications as soon as they are printed. Then the absentee, i.e. soldier voters will send these applications to their county clerks and he will send them the ballots as soon as they are made up. Then the soldier marks these ballots same as you do in the voting vot-ing booth at home and mails them back to their county clerks. All this takes time and the thing to do is to explain the thing to them now. Also remind them that the privilege to elect public officals by the secret ballot is one of the things they are fighting to pre- , serve. Also the folks at home are so? lazy and indifferent that only 18 per cent of the Utah people vote, j and its up to the soldiers to vote 1 as well as fight and elect men end women who have proven ability regardless of church influence. The big redeeming feature about the soldier's vote is that being half way around the world the ward healers end others who carry on the usual whispering campaign to persuade voters to elect some fellow who promises them a job, well the men in uniform can vote according to the dictates of then-own then-own judgment. On another subject we are pleased with the Cache American's editorial in their paper of March 31st, and many people have commented favorably upon the policy of keeping those traffic lights on all day instead of just part time. It appears that Logan has more than it's share of hoodlem-drivers and some of them think because they have driver's liability insurance insur-ance they can disregard the rules and regulations supposed to govern driving. It was enlightening to learn that the lights of Logan streets had been off part time in the name of economy (?) and let us hope to hear this word economy econo-my again some time. A cty manager form of Government Gov-ernment would surely be in line. He or she. whichever it chanced I to be, could insist 'that our police I require city employees to give : driving signals as they travel these I streets. It's a rare thing indeed to see , a city emploj'ee courtoous enough to signal his intention either by arm or horn. Economy indeed! : What wisdom is there in using 1 Diesel engines and having a swift i |