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Above are citizens of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Russia, Hun
gary and Rumania engaged in voting. All vote "Yes.". That's
the only way they can vote. Actually, they have no vote. They
lost it to a dictatorship.
It's different in Australia, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Swit
zerland and New Zealand. There the franchise is so important
that citizens are fined if they don't vote.
There is still another way the American way. Your vote
is yours to use freely, as you see fit now.
But if you don't use your vote, you may lose the very right
to vote. Failure to exercise your citizenship on election day leaves
the door open to dictatorship at home or conquest from abroad.
Then you, like the people above, will lose your vote.
That right to vote is one of your most precious possessions.
Protect it!
Be sure to register. Then be sure to vote. Remind your fam
ily, friends and fellow workers how important it is for them to
do the same.
Every good American should participate in politics. Some
people don't like the word politics because they think it means
being partisan urging support for
or party.
particular candidate
But when you register and vote, study issues and candidates,
. and remind your friends to do the same, you participate in poli
tics in its highest form. In this sense, politics is the freedom given
us by our Constitution for selecting the men and women who
will run our government.
Your continued freedom lies in your ballot box. Once lost,
it is gone forever. Don't lose it! Keep it.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Be sure to register now
Be sure to vote November 4
Be sure to urge your friends to register
and vote.
Even if you did not vote in the Primaries, you still
can register now to vote November 4.
MEDrOHD (OHEGOW) MAIL TH01fE4. JEVBR
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This announcement is contributed in the interest ' -
of good citizenship by