Show R the churches will lay off their theological disputes long enough by IR DR JOSEPH FORT NEWTON new york pa vaster stor the neglect of the ballot which I 1 is at once the wand and the weapon of democracy is nothing short of appalling taking all kinds kind of VIM dec eions into accounts account hardly more than 35 15 per cent of our people who are titled show that it is is not facts to vote ev ever er vote on any issue the the foreign Olene clement rif that fail to vote but people of american 1211 ancestry estry arid d lack of public mindedness edness a training it is just indifference a lailure failure to realize the basic obligation of citizenship which makes the ying aing of lincoln thit that this is a government of the tale people for the aco pl pc by 4 tile the people a sarce farce it delivers the public life of the land into the hands of the boss bosa the selfish politician who herds tit the few in order tl 10 use e the machinery of state for his own ends if the various churches will lay off their theological disputes lon long g ellough ugh to urge upon ther their people the initial duty they can render or a real bervice to the republic every i instrumentality every should be used to induce met men and women to vote as a re tio legious ious of obligation no less than as aa a duty but it is not the business of the church to tell people leople how to vote ou it ought to exhort them to vote in some gorne way and 1 if need be organ it it will 11 mear till lla w that unchecked end if the present neglect goes on of democracy and the failure of popular government |