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Show .Ill lit' IS. mi. I. rni !7(i Give Thanks Voting tents are conspicuously marneu ai wie neauqudiiei ui mo 147th Infantry Regiment in the South Pacific in 1944. In the tent the left, the voting officer S3 explains requirements to a r With a soiaier, wnue anotner aougnooy votes in the booth at the right. premises, regarding it as a religious duty, as the Nation's guardian of these people who have so heroically vindicated their manhood on the battlefield, where, in assisting to save the life of the Republic, they have demonstrated in One of the rallying cries of our Founding Fathers in the years before the American Revolution was, "no taxation without representation." Some of the most bitter arguments during the Constitutional Convention after the American Revolution were over the subject of the franchise. Certain members of the Convention were in favor of restricting the right to vote to the owners of Propulsion Branch while stationed at Udorn Royal Thai AFB, Thailand. (U.S. Air Force Photo) (Continued From Page degrees outside and indoor temperatures won't be permitted below 76 degrees. Cut lighting and appliance "Cleveland's TRW Inc. use to a minimum. Lights conducts tests to see how long air conditioning can be off give off heat too. Qtl V.fvrc nnnnla mstisA Tt'c " Mr. Nowowiejski says that i ssue economic business,' "Ogden ALC will not be the officials their of one only installation trying to explains. conserve electrical energy. Another sticky summer looms for other U.S. businesses as "New York City has named well. enforce to 'wardens' Keep air conditioner filters clean. Check them at least once a month. rrc V 11 conservation "Lockheed Aircraft plans to keep its buildings at 78 degrees, although its officials say some offices may reach 85. in municipal Los and offices Angeles, Calif, is considering a similar plan." Mi Nowowiejski that "electricity is expensive. We "New York's municipal buildings won't be allowed air conditioning until it reaches 80 concludes our at Ogden ALC must make electrical available energy go farther than ever participation by the national electorate was a low 43.5 per cent. the same elections, Armed Forces participation was an even lower 26.5 per cent. In 1974, the national electorate's participation rate was 37 per cent; participation by Armed Forces personnel was an incredible 1 8 per cent. This year as we observe ballot General, later President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant said during the 1 864 election that soldiers and sailors had ". . . as much right to demand that their votes shall be counted in the choice of their rulers as those citizens who remain at home; nay more, for they have sacrificed more for their country." Only seven or eight per cent of those eligible to vote, however, did so. Today every state recognizes the right of members of the Armed Forces to vote and the process requires registering and obtaining an absentee ballot, or going to one's local voting place and casting a ballot. Yet an analysis compiled by Benjamin Franklin was in the forefront of the opposition to this theory, asserting, "the natural rights of man are their rights to an im- 1) doubled, 22.7 per cent, by members in the next age group, those between 26 and 40 years." During the 1 970 elections blood their right to the property. Hill Must Cut Energy mediate voice in the general assemblage of the whole nation, or to a right of suffrage and representation." James Madison, one of the architects of the Constitution said of the right to vote, "The right of suffrage was a fundamental article of republican government. A gradual abridgement of this right has been the mode in which aristocracies have been built on the ruins of popular forms." Less than a hundred years later, during the Civil War, President Lincoln said of the black soldiers who had fought for the Union, "I am clear and decided as to what course I shall pursue in the our Nation's bicentennial we are looking back to the days of the American Revolution when it all began. A writer of the day noted back in 1 780, "It was enough for these brave men to reflect they were engaged in the best and most glorious of causes that of defending the rights and liberties of their country to induce them to behave with so much resolution and fortitude. Their many sufferings so cheerfully undergone, highly merit our gratitude and sincere thanks The best way to ensure those "rights and liberties" and to say "thanks" is to vote. the Federal Voting Assistance Program shows that "In the largest age group of the Armed Forces members between the ages of 18 and 25 only 12 per cent voted in the 1974 elections. 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