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...future belongs to those who go down the line unswervingly for the liberal principles of both political democracy and economic democracy regardless of race, color or religion. In a political, educational and economic sense, there must be no inferior races. The poll tax must go. Equal educational opportunities must come. The future must bring equal wages for equal work regardless of sex or race. . . . The Democratic Party cannot long survive as a conservative party. . . . Democrats who try to play the Republican game inside the Democratic Party always find that it just can't work on a national scale...
...these states where the payment of a poll tax is required, the tax must be paid, or if already paid, the receipt or affidavit of its loss must be forwarded with the postal card. Minimum age for voting stands at 21 years, with the single exception of Georgia, where 18 years will suffice...
...whole this weekend was quite satisfying after the grinding class sessions. Everyone agrees that compared with this, V-12 was paradise. But then someone was overheard telling Professor Hanson, the voice, that we had it easy when Mr. Hanson was pitying our lot We'd better take a poll very soon to see how the majority of us stand on Cudahy before any such committals occure again...
...spite of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Texas case that Negroes must be allowed to vote in Southern primaries (TIME, April 17), Negroes did not vote last week in Georgia. In spite of the fact that some 5,000 Negroes had registered and paid poll taxes in Fulton County (Atlanta). Negro leaders saw to it that only enough Negroes should appear (and be turned down) at the polls to make a test case in the courts...
...Pope will receive no raise, since he gets no salary. Most of his income is derived from Peter's Pence, the penny poll tax collected annually in every Roman Catholic Church in the world. The Pope may use the proceeds of Peter's Pence as he wishes. Most of it goes for Vatican expenses, Papal charities. The Pope publishes no Peter's Pence figures, but in prewar times it was rumored to run between $2,000,000 and $5,000,000 annually. Because of the war, most of the Pope's income in the past five...