Show farm bureau president appeals to voters to cast ballot there were men ineil and of f omen 0 voting age in utah who did vote v ot e in the 1910 election not phillps Phi h I 1 lUps president of declared the morgan carl county C bounty farm bureau in III issuing an appeal for all qualified voters to go to the polls and vote vole their convictions november 7 not only in III the 1940 election tion he said but in previous ones in our state State a large part of our people who were eligible e to vote ote simply did not take the time to exercise one of the highest L s t rights granted to them as american c a n citizens for the nation as a whole only 62 per cent of the eligible voters went to the polls in 1940 11 the statement of mr phillips came in response to an appeal from the american farm bureau federation sent by george L hobson president of the utah state stale farm bureau federation to presidents of all county organizations the american farm bureau federation is now carrying on a strictly 1 nonpartisan non partisan campaign urging rural and small town america to vote in the november election in this large number of people who d did not take time to vote in our state said mr phillips were thousands of farmers and residents of small towns in the country at large more than 50 per cent of the Is in rural districts and in towns of less than in fact out of counties in III the country 2410 do not have a town of more than population it seems therefore that rural voters have the power to shape our count rys future if they will only use it but they must get out and vote mr phillips said that especially in this war year with the nations future depending on issues to be decided that every person eligible to vote should go to the polls november 7 j |