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...dining hall poll to determine the number of Seniors and Juniors graduating at mid-years, who would be able and interested in attending a baccalaureates ceremony in January will be held by the Crimson within the next week. Members of the classes of 1943 and 1944 will be asked to select the date most convenient for them...
...privilege of suffrage carries with it responsibilities, and no one interested enough to vote minds registering or minds paying a poll tax of $1 per year for that privilege...
...point of fact, if the poll tax was higher, we would get better government, less demagoguery, and not so many moronic buffoons in the Congress...
...vote in Mississippi, a citizen must have paid his poll taxes for two years preceding the election. The poll tax is a $2 flat rate, but since municipal poll taxes may be added to the basic rate, the maximum rate is $6. Mississippi's 1940 population: 2,183,796 persons. In 1940 only 175,824 Mississippians voted. Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo's total vote in 1940: 143,341. He was elected by about one-fifteenth of the State's population, presumably including Reader Levings...
...defeating the Nipponese must be devised. The Russians and Chinese must benefit from a flow of supplies from the American cornucopia. In the nation, "black markets," devastating crimps in production, and on a more lasting scale the uisheartening defeats of democracy like the recent Southern filibuster over the poll tax bill show than there is still a long road to travel...