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Scholarliness is too often a synonym for dullness, even the pages of the "Guardian," but R. A. Horne's "Can Congress Abolish the Poll Tax?" holds the reader's interest throughout, yet discusses a complicated legal and constitutional question in all its ramification. Hence also manage to provide a thorough background for his particular subjects with a few paragraphs on the whole poll tax situation...
...House members will be asked today in a special Student Council poll whether they would favor the introduction of a compulsory 21-meal rate or the establishment of a self-service system in the House dining halls...
...your editorial of the 16th against poll taxes it seems to me you have overlooked a very important fact--that democracy is effective only when the electors are educated. The ten million disfranchised citizens in the South you speak of are, I believed you will find, among the most ignorant, uneducated, and illiterate people in the nation. If they were allowed to cast a ballot their vote would represent the persuasion of some Hucy Longish great promiser and petty briber rather than the intelligent choice of a people fit and ready to govern themselves. The way to attack the problem...
...undergraduates, but so far no constructive changes have been inaugurated to reduce that most oppressive item of all college expenses. Various economizing measures have been studied at length by the Student Council, and the result of their efforts is now being made public through the medium of this poll, which is designed to test the reaction of the undergraduate body to the proposed arbitrary measures of decreasing the board rate...
...fate of the college dining halls depends upon the outcome of this poll. For if undergraduate sentiment shows itself in favor of the proposed changes, these measures will undoubtedly go into effect next year. Such an important question as this deserves the thoughtful attention of the students to justify the faith that the administration has placed in self-government. No changes, however, ought to be made in the present dining hall system unless undergraduates undergraduate opinion shows itself whole-heartedly in favor of such a change...