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Show TOO BUSY There are a great many people who profess to be "too busy to bother both-er with politics," but there is NO man or woman who is too busy to assist in the selection of proper executives ex-ecutives for our city, county or state. If you are a citizen and a taxpayer, you owe it to yourself to see that only capable men are put in office and if you are "too busy" to vote, you are just as big a menace to th 2 country as the worst of these foreign radicals. hat would become of our country of everyone were too busy to vote ? : Why should those who believe in their duties of citizenship, be compelled to tiling for those who are "too busy?" It is a shame that an American citi-. zen should try to use such a flimsy excuse. Politics may be "rotten," as some believe, but it is the "too busy'" citizen that is making it so. There i should be some way of cancelling a ', man's citizenship if he refuses to do 1 his duty, then you would hear an awful aw-ful roar from these peace time slackers. slack-ers. ; It is a crime that any election, no ' matter how unimportant, should bring out less than fifty per cent of the registered vote. If a man or wo-1 man cannot or will not, exercise their! right of franchise, this franchise should be taken away from them if citizenship is worth having, it is ' worth protecting, and the non-voter j is a detriment to his community, j |