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Show THE Page Twelve EDITORIAL WRITER EXPLAINS HOW ELECTORAL COLLEGE SETUP WORKS IN NATION; SHOULD BE ABOLISHED Due to the unusual interest aroused in the electoral college during the recent campaign and the light which the article appearing below throws on the subject, herewith reThe an article written by publishes Frank I. Cobb, one of the great editorial writers of the time, and Sun-Advoc- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA TTTTTTYTTTTTVTTTTVTTVTTT THROAT ly worn , why donft you THROAT away or give it to salvage and buy a new one, that's real economy. ACME CLEANERS AND TAILORS READER OF V FOR FIVE AND V FOR VICTORY BY AN INFORMAL vice man: TO MY DRAFT BOARD: Greetings From Pacific. In one of those rare moments in New Guinea when soldiers have nothing to do, theyve whipped up an informally formal little change of address notification with which GIs can keep their draft boards posted. Titled Form No. 1A and subNote to Local titled Nasty 531. WmmTTfffffTTTVT WE SERVE LUNCHES, TOO -D- ELICIOUS LUNCHES and we have recently installed a line of new booths for the comfort of our eating guests. FOUNTAIN DRINKS . . . CIGARS . . . CANDIES . . . CIGARETTES . . TOBACCOES . . . NEW POOL TABLES TYYYYYTYTYTYTYTFTTYYTTWYTTTTTTYTTTYTTTTTTTTV PASTIME BILLIARD PARLOR Main St. Price have drafted, you are hereby sent this letter, a report on conditions We are havin this theatre and would wonderful a time, ing give anything if you could only be here with us. "It is quite nice here warm and wet. Although there are no large wrild animals right here, there are quite a few rats and lots of bugs, worms and things that crawl. We think of you quite of- .... ten. Beneath the space reserved for the new OPA address, the form says: Any information as to change in dependency such as marriage to native women, etc., w'ill be duly reported. The boys take the sting out of it, however in their closing paragraphs: Seriously, though, we want you Board, the gentle but barbed noto know that we have no hard a familiar with out starts tice feelings toward you for the part parody: us into uniFrom a soldier of the United you played in getting form. We know that it was no States Army, Greetings: fault of yours, that you were only Having been selected by a doing your job. men and friends of you your group The President of the United States is elected by presidential electors chosen in the several states for that particular purpose. Or, if no candidate have a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, the President is elected by the House of Representatives. In that case, each state has one vote, which is determined by a majority of its representatives in Congress. Every state has as many presidential electors as it has Senators and Representatives in Congress. The total number of electors is Legislatures Legally Control The Constitution of the United East Main at. Phone 237 States provides that each state shall appoint its electors in such UTAH PRICE. manner as the Legislatures thereTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT of may direct. The only restriction imposed is that no Senator or NOTICE The following article is published by request from Corporal Philthe lip L. Fister, stationed withNeththe in corps Quartermaster erlands. The article was taken from an issue of the Chicago serTimes, originally written by a THE W. F. MYERS, Prop. 17 DRAFT BOARDS INFORMED OF CHANGES OF ADDRESS published in the New York World on November 26, 1928: To the Editor of the World: Will you please have one of your men write a plain, easily understood article describing fully the system of electing a President of the United States the electoral college, the number of electoral votes from each state, and why, if the people vote individually, the votes are not counted individually for the candidate for election? A WOMAN WORLD. If your Suit is bad- PRICE. UTAH E. siimmtiiiimmiiHHiHiiiimiHiumimimmimuuimiiimiiiiuuuuiiuumiimiiiiiimiiKHiiiiiimiiNMHiHimiiiMNimmmiiiiiituiiiHimmiittmmifmiti that danger. The World believes in the election of the President by popular vote, but a long step forward would be taken if the electors from each state were not chosen as individuals. That would remove the danger of divided delegations, although it would not pre- - Representative or person holding an office of profit or trust under the United States shall be an elector. The electors in every state are now chosen by popular vote, but this is a concession that has been wrung from the Legislature by the people. In the earlier days of the Republic, the Legislatures of a majority of the states made their own appointment of electors. So far as the Constitution of the United States is concerned, the legislative power is absolute in the appointment of electors. It could decide that the electors should oe chosen by the Stock Exchange, or by Charles F. Murphy, or by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., or by the Board of Estimate of New York City. Cant Adjust Contests This is not the only anomaly in the Constitution in respect to the election of a President. There is no provision whatever for adjusting a contest over the choice of electors. The Constitution declares that the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted. But what is to be done when there are irregularities in the certificates or there are contesting electors? Who is then to count the vent a repetition of the Tilden-- ! Hayes contest. No republic concerned about its1 domestic peace and security can afford tot tolerate the conditions that have so long existed in the United States in respect to the choice of a chief magistrate. Whatever remeedy is decided upon, the electoral college as now constituted must be abolished. ..aiiUUSe thio JR Vern Davis, former way patrolman, has oSS, hig!i' rage at 4th South and sShV3' bon avenue for general vice. His selling the Oldsnfobile caf for area when autos are on the market for tht plaeei public. He is maintaining??1 chamcal, greasing and genL, vicing garage in the nT For a number of years Mrfe was associated with his brntK the garage business in Next time, r hell to eve'J, u, FOR Fuller Brushes PHONE CaU before 123-- 9 a. m. or after 6:30 p.m. tfo Pacific Fruit Company now has an office in town, located at 396 North 2nd East. C. H. PATTERSON, Mgr. Phone 100 - - - Price j votes? The question once brought the nation to the verge of another civil war, and it has been a prolific source of controversy for three generations. During the last hundred years there has been hardly a presidential election in which controversies did not arise as to the qualifications and returns of electors. Few of these controversies have been serious because the electoral majority of the successful candidate was so large that the result could rot be affected, but in 1876 the country was menaced by civil war. 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