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Show oo i H MISS WILSON IS I AT CONVENTION I Says Average Voter Casts Bal- fel lot Without Forethought H People Should Be II Organized. ' H Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 5. Miss Mar- IIH garct Wilson, daughter of President H Wilson, told the Wisconsin State JH Teachers' convention here today that UH the majority of voters caBt their bal- l lots with "as little forethought as they H give to buying a suit," and proposed H as a remedy the use' of school build- f Ings as meeting places for citizens ' ; H and as voting booths and tho employ- H ment of school principals as election H clerks. She said the people should be IIH organized according to the vote pre- i H cincts with the school buildings as inH their centers. I 'JJH "Let us make the vote mean some- jH thing," said Miss Wilson. 'I am told ' H that when a man gets a suit he gets I what tho tailor tells him to wear. ! !IH That 1b what raoBt voters do In tho H primaries. They vote for the men jH who 'they say,' Is the man 'they" be- jj H lug In this case tho political bosses. I We know this but have dono littlo so jjH far, except to talk about 1L" (H Miss Wilson said that it "surely Is ' l America's' opportunity before all oth- l er nations to prove that the Ideal of ' ! H democracy 1b more than a dream, that j it la a principle that works." She ad- 'III ded that self government "is nothing IjH more or less than a process of educa- ' W tlon." 7 ijjH ' I 'M |