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Show oar and out the other. But wuidi i'ur eoimuou seu.o, thru bad; it lor your own and your l'amlv's ' prosperity, welfare and happiuess ! ! VOTING IS IMPORTANT The expression Is frequently heard: "Aw it doesn't make much difference who's elected. The people peo-ple are the goat, no matter -who wins." " This Indifferent attitude toward politics Is as contagious as smallpox. small-pox. And is spreading. More than any other factor, It Is responsible respon-sible for the increasing tendency of citizens to fall to cast their ballots bal-lots nearly half staying away from the polls in the 1920 presidential presiden-tial election. ,It does make a difference who is elected. 'American municipalities long since learned that it does make a difference whether a community's com-munity's chief of police is a strict law enforcer or is in league with the underworld. They long since learned that plunging a nation into war and sending the voters out to be shot at, depends principally on the make-tip of congress. They long since learned that it does make a difference whether their boss in business is kindly and fair or heart-loss heart-loss and slave-driving. And it does make a diffcrense who is elected to any political job to all political jobs from president down to dog- catcher. The cynical growl that 1 t"Don't make no difference who's elected," is just talk. It is obviously false. In electing the president and other political office holders this fall you are to a large extent determining deter-mining what will happen to your pocketbook's contents in the next four years. The choice of president presi-dent and other national employes will unquestionably have an important im-portant effect in shaping the cost I of living and the conditions nnder I which the rising generation will live. Any man with common sense will see this. And he will not fail to vote. Before voting, he will listen to both sides rather, to all sides in an attempt to arrive at the truth before selecting his favorite. Political Po-litical speeches are not as interesting inter-esting as thrilling murders and base-hall base-hall and movies, but they occasionally occasiona-lly have horse sense and, if backed by popular support, can lead to solutions of many of our ' gravest problems. Increasingly, as the American people have taken politics less seriously, seri-ously, economic problems have become be-come more serious. Accept the politicians pol-iticians bunk with a grin, in one |