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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1920.
THE STATESMAN
The Double Primary
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of Austin are appealing to every home
and rooming house owner within one
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REAL ESTATE
MAN DELIGHTED
WITH TANLAC
money to go now anyways Jest aftir all
that tripping. Wich Jest then wat did
I do but trip over the rug in the hall
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“Ought Not To Be Excused”
by Dorothy Canfield Fished, or "Tak-
ing ‘The Cure’ at Reno” by Helen King
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The Austin book stands are display-
ing today th October Pictorial Review,
which has Just arrived for sale and
The double primary. like many other political innovations, is
attractive enough as a theoretical proposition but valueless in
practice.
can not be overlooked.
This month the page will make you
laugh. It is the cleverest of Twelye-
trees' children's pictures that he has
the Pictorial arrives—its smiling cover
INDUSTRIAL TRAFFIC
LEAGUE TO MEET •
HERE SEPTEMBER 20
note
Book
Women, then, are already among those voters “subject to pay
a poll tax under the laws of Texas." Women have paid the poll
tax in the same period and at the same places provided for men.
Women who have not paid are in the same category with men who
have not paid. If men and women who have paid the poll tax
are allowed to vote, and the men and women who have not paid it
are not allowed to vote, "the right of citizens to vote" is not
"denied or abridged on account of sex,” and, therefore, the An-
thony amendment is not violated.
The Governor, in his call, states that “men and women” who
oil tax for 1919 or obtained exemption certificates have
shm themselves to vote in the November election.” Yet he
s an opinion that women do not need to pay the poll tax and
could not, by paying it, qualify themselves to vote in the
cut ice, and put up a mil with a hearty good win when any OPS offers
the price. So Dempsey’s a solace to me: I watch his mottons with glee;
a fighter who'll fight Ig a joy to the sight, whate’er his conditions may be
Ordinarily, the “high man” will win in the run-off. The only
noteworthy exceptions to this rule have been Senatorial contest in
which Colquitt was defeated, and the recent gubernatorial con-
test In the August run-offs, the primary "high man won in
every race except that between Bailey and Neff. No purpose was
served by having a run-off in any of these contests but to prolong
the campaign and force additional expenditures by candidates.
Fohinsonare especially interested In
ber—the October—will tell you all you .
, want to know. D6 you know how on
( Sleeves are going to be? Are We280n8-
to wear high neck or low? what 1S
the proper length for skirts?
The Pictorial will tell you.
It contains the cream of the smart-
est advance fall fashions Women or
refinement, always seekinK, the neW
and beautiful In dress, will have their
ambitions gratified in the charming
Stles shown In Pictorial Review for
October. All the latest Parisian novt
elties. all that is smartest and newest
is displayed In ample profusion. Don t
mias the New Beauty Window Presses
the New Coat Dresses, the New Moxen
' Ae Dresses and the New Peg Top
1 Dresses. These distinctive new.:featurzs
i are only a few of the delightful ad-
UAn styles displayed In this issue,
and riease remember that PictorieiRe:
1 view Patterns enable you .torreproduc.
every one of these new styles in exact
, detail. ...________
and thereby infer that those who disagree with it are un-American
is “a deliberate insult" to many millions of good citizens. "That
sort of campaign,” says Mr. Roosevelt,, ought not to be excused
even in the heat of an election.
As we recall it, Mr. Hays intimated that the Democratic party
prefers an international flag to the Stars and Stripes. Atsabout
the same time, Governor Cox was saying that Senator Hodgen) W1
be lucky if he isn’t classed by historians with Benedict Arn.
The round of Mr. Hays’ remarks was Democratic support of the
Wilson covenant, while Governor Cox predicated his remarks on
Senator Lodge’s opposition to the covenant.
As Mr Roosevelt says, “That sort of campaigning ought not
to be excused.” But how may the people rebuke it when to punish
one party is to reward another equally guilty ‘
the fearsest noise of all. pop calling,
Benny, come up heer.
Ony I was going out the frunt door
jest then and dident heer him, and
Leroy Shooster sed. Did you get it?
I changed my mind, I ain’t going to
ask, I sed
Wish I dident. _______
HARRISON HERE ON BUSINESS.
Capt. J. S. Harrison of Waco is in
Austin on business, he having a con-
tract for some work that is going
forward here. Captain Harrison has
long lived in Waco and for many years
he has een visiting Austin on business
and pleasure trips. He is well known
to old-timers of both places and re-
cites many interesting facts and inci-
dents concerning the history of both
towns. _________
MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The Associated Pres* is exclustvely entitled to the use for publlcation of
all news and dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper,
and also the local news published herein. All rights of publicatiou of special
Qispatches herein are also reserved.
last year in the long session was
around 4000 students, and there will
be a much larger number this Year,
possibly 5000. One business man who
was interviewed Wednesday mornine
said: . ,, ..
“Austin must overexert herself to
hernumber or rooms rthey can furnish take ctatofcnarge andeauonatl.
°0 Wednesday morning letter, came price.n Theracqre.mamjority co th
in from 107 girls who have not yet »e- Austin-in fact ino m ij I t
cured room,, and the registrar's office °ltUen»—want to se th Tet raine
is preparing to send out a letter telling town, and t emer.
these girls and parents that there is to rise to any emerg ene The emers
a great room shortage for girls and geney is on us beceusn.0 Tom girls
asking them to be patient. The Uni-1 bringing In scores of letters Irom, *
vrsnt authorities are doing this in wanting rooms who can not be
the hope that within the next twenty- I modated.
"Nothing in the world can beat Tan.
lac as a medicine," bald A. F. Barr of
4615 Park Blvd., San Diego, Cal. Mr.
Barr is one of the best known and most
highly esteemed real estate, loan and
isurance men of San Diego.
"I am feeling better and stronger
than for twenty-eight years." he said,
"and I can't make my endorsement of
Tan lac too strong.
"My troubles started with indigestion
and gas on my stomach, then my
nerves went to pieces and at times
I couldn’t bear people talking in my
presence. Nothing I ceuld do seemed
to help/me and I remained in this con-
dition twenty-two year,. I fell off tn
weight to a hundred and nine pounds
tnd got so I couldn't sleep at night: my
stomach swelled up with gas after
nearly every meal and I became so
weak I had to give up my business
almost entirely. I tried everything I
knew of but didn't even get temporary
"One oy my doctor said: 'Why don’t
you try ranlac? I believe it will help
you.' I acted on his suggestion at
once and before I finished the first
bottle I was , topished at the way I
had improved. I kept on getting bet-
ter right along until now I am a well
man, after suffering more than a quar-
ter of a century. I eat anything. my
stomach and nerves are In excellent
shape and I have more strength and
energy than for twenty-five years My
recovery is the talk of the neighbors,
and if anyone doubts this tell them to
see me or write me "
AU druggists sell Tantac.—Adv.
four hours every citizen in Austin who
can spare a room for girls will tele-
phone to the Chamber of Commerce
"The attendance at the University
A letter of notification has reached
Austin from Houston, written by Ed.
P. Byars, president of the Texas Indus:
trial Traffic League, to the effect that
the next monthly meeting of the league
will be held in Austin at the Drtskin
Hotel, beginning Monday morning,
sept. . .. a
A program of what Is to be discussed
has been went to each local member,
as follows.
The question of filing formal com-
plaint with regard to increased classit
flration rates. _ . ,1,
Report from Charles A. Bland, with
reference to the. Texas Public Utilities
Commission. ,
Method of publishing intrastate and
interstate rates by Mr. Fonda.
What action. If any, the lengue will
take loeking toward the restoration of
passenger mileage scrp books. - .
It was stated in the Houston notifi-
cation that the Texas Railway Com-
mission will hold its regular monthly
hearing in Austin on Rept. it. hence
the calling of the Texas Industrial
Traffic League at that time. In order
that members may attend both meet"
ings. ____ ________________________________ _
5* a package
Jack Dempeey wi battle ’em all. the short and the fat and the tkTIl
he'll meet any chap who', intent on a scrap, and plaster him over the wan
Oh, long have we yearned for a champ who'd fight at the wink of a lamp;
and it's been a long day, I am prompted to say, since we had a good boy of
chat stamp! But Dempeey, he rather would fight, than go to a lecture at
night; he has no exrune when he's ashed to produce "invincible left” or the
right I hope in some bright coming year the prise ring will quite die-
-----outworn and outlawed it will rest neath the sod, and no one. will
human device I think that the pugs should
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OCTOBER NOW ON
AUSTIN NEWS STANDS
opinion of a ministerial officer.
“Any voter who is subject to pay a poll tax under the laws of
Tesaa,” says article 6, must hold a receipt showing his poll tex
paid before the first day of February next preceding an election in
order to vote at such election. Wherein does this language con-
flict with the Anthony amendment!
What voters are “subject to pay a poll tax under the laws of
Texas !"
According to Article 2942 of the revised statutes the poll tax
shall be collected from "every male person between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty who resided in this State on the first day of
January preceding its levy ; Indians not taxed, persons insane,
blind, deaf or dumb, and those who have lost a hand or foot, or
permanently disabled, excepted."
According to the primary suffrage act of 1918, “from and
after the first of January, 1919, each woman voter in this State
voting and offering to vote in any primary election or convention
shall be required to pay the poll tax now required of each male
person who desires to vote and shall be governed by all of the laws
of the State of Texas, requiring and permitting the voting upon
the payment of poll taxes in this State.”
yet given the public.
Three tiny tote with a ouija board
clever for any words. But oh. Mr.
—and a dog. Their expressions are too
Twelvetrees, you shouldn't have let
thome children have a lighted candle'
Don't you know "It just lsn’t done" in
children', circles!
Do you like thrills or laughs T
Edward J. O’Brien, the noted critic,
baa frequently stated that Pietora1 Re-
view publishes more short stories of
first quality than any maqazine of ita
clasa. Each year when Mr. O'Brien
makes his awards Pictorial stories
stand highest in his lists. In Pictorial
Review for October are eight complete
stories that clearly Indicate why Mr
O'Brien has bestowed signal honors on
Pictorial Review Fiction. Do you like
a grim, fantastic story? Read "Foot-
falls" by Walter Daniel steele. Do
you want to laugh? Read "LADoulou-
reuse" by H. Collinson Owen. Does
Oriental romance charm you! Read
"The Lure of Jade" y Achmed Abdul-
lah. Do younk people’s love affairs in-
terest you? Read ::Love’s Derelict ’ by
Leona Dalrymple. Do you like to solve
a mystery? Read "Red Gulls" by Ethel
Watts Mumford. Do you like to read of
queer people? Reed "The Refuge" by
character study read "The stranze
Mary Cholmondeley. For a mystifying
Case of Mr. Nix" by Hugh Walpole.
Do you believe In supersititiona? Read
"The Shining Garments of Success by
.Earl Derr Biggers.
But if you are a thoughtful woman,
you will probably turn first to "A
Square Deal for the Nameless Child’
Gm a package
9 During the War
Yestidday aftir supir I was setting
on the frunt steps jest sitting there,
and Leroy Shooster came up saying.
Hay Benny, can you go to the movies?
I don’t know, maybe, III see, wait «.
second, Ill be back in a minnit, I sed.
And I went in the house and started
to run up stairs to ask and wen I got
about a quarter ways up I tripped and
fell about a eighth ways back making
a fearae noise, and pop called down.
Stay up. stay up, for the love of Peet
stay up, youve got all nite, haven’t
you?
Meening wat was the hurry, and I
waited a little wile to give him a
chance to think of sumthing elts and
then I started to run up a little slower
but not mutch, and wen I got about
half ways up I tripped agen and fell
about a quarter ways back, making a
even fearser noise, thinking, Jimminy
crickits, gosh G, and pop* called down,
Be carefill, be carefill, confownd it.
youve bin falling up those steps for the
last 5 minnits, do you think I have
nuthing elts to do but sit heer and lis4
sen to you trying to brake your fool
neck?
No, sir, I sed. Meening I dident
think so, and I quick snuck down stairs
agen backwards, thinking, G, I better
go out a wile and come back , in about
10 minnits, he wouldent give me the
By carrier:
Austin. anywhere within corporate
limits, daily and Sunday, per
month ..............................
Austin. anywhere within corporate
limitfl. daily and Sunday, per
year ..............................
Bunday morning adifton, by mail only. by
Rates to Ei
Nation. .... ,
The Governor proposes a new registration; but article 6, sec-
tion 2 of the State constitution declares that "any voter who is
subject to pay a poll tax under the laws of the State of Texas, shall
have paid said tax before he offers to vote at any election in this ------- - ■ .
State and hold a receipt showing his poll tax paid before the first distribution. You can always tell when
day of February next preceding such election.” The legislature is
asked to override, on the authority of the Attorney General s
opinion, a provision of the instrument from which it draws its
powers. This provision, of course, will not stand against a
Federal amendment, but may possibly hold its own against the
The July primary developed that Senator Bailey was therfirst
three opponents. The August run-off showed Mr. Neff to be the
second choice of more voters than Senator Bailey. But voters in
the run-off had to choose between Senator Bailey and Mr. Neff;
no test was afforded of the strength of Messrs. Looney and
Thomason as second choices.
Now it will be remembered that feeling ran rather high
between the Thomason and Neff followings in the primary. Had
it been possible then for Thomason men to express themselves as
to a second choice, the larger number would very likely have
divided between Mr. Looney and Mr. Bailey. And had it been pos-
sible then for Neff men to express themselves as to a second choice
they would very likely have favored Mr. Looney. Thomason and
Looney would have divided the Bailey “second choice vote,
although perhaps Neff would have shared it to some extent, in
all probability, Thomason or Looney would have been the leading
second choice, and thus it may be said that the result of the run-
off is the nomination of a candidate who was certainly not the
first choice and probably not even the second choice, as between
the four starters in the race, of the larger number of Democratic
voters.
Opponents of Senator Bailey may remark that the double
primary system prevented the nomination of a candidate opposed
by a majority of voters, but that is faint praise. The purpose o
the system is not merely to defeat the candidate opposed by a
majority, but to select the candidate favored by a majority:
Clearly, that purpose was not served in the recent contest for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
election.
tance of the Governor’s own statement that men and
io have paid the poll tax are qualified to vote in Novem-
solve the problem he proposes to put before the legis-
hout destroying Texas’ constitutional or legal provisions
ut calling the legislature in session. This solution, we appear!
Ould accord with the spirit and language of the Anthony handt a.tpsn.But whueissm
plan proposed by the Governor may cast
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page calls immediate attention. It
Austin Chamber of Commerce
Asked Aid in Securing
Quarters for Girls.
The Chamber of Commerce has Just
completed an investigation of the
rooming situation at the University of
Texan, and, according to a statement
issued "Wednesday at noon, all boys
who come to the University for the
1920-21 session will be well taken care
of. A further investigation shows,
however, that there is a shortage of
rooms for girl students.
The taking over of the S. M. A.
buildings, which are steam heated and
are all equipped with a large number
of baths and lavatories, has done much
to make the rooming situation satis-
factory so far as the boys are con-
cerned. according to the statement,
which follows:
’"At one time the S. M. A buildings
accommodated 1500 men. They are
equipped for taking care of all boys
who wish to avail themselves of rooms.
A further investigation, however, shows
that rooms in all the rooming houses
and private homes around the Univer-
sity have been taken up by boys and
girls with the result that a’ consider-
able number of girls have not yet se-
cured rooms. The situation is really
Accepting the Attorney General’s interpretation of the nine-
teenth amendment to the Federal Constitution, Governor Hobby
calls the legislature to meet in special session, “because in my
opinion it creates an emergency which only can be dealt with by
immediate action on the part of the State’s legislative authority.”
After declaring that without legislative action, opportunity
will be afforded for fraudulent voting, the Governor's call con-
tinues:
But there is a higher’consideration than these which
makes action necessary. There are about 750,000 persons
in Texas men and women, who qualified themselves - to
vote in the November election by paying poll taxes or
obtaining exemption certificates. There are at least
2,500,000 men and women of voting age in Texas. Under
the construction given the nineteenth amendment by the
Attorney General, all of these will be permitted to vote
regardless of whether they have or have not paid a poll
tex. This should be avoided because it is unfair. • • •
it would be discrimination just the same to hold an elec-
tion at which 750,000 persons have been required to pay
a poll tax of >1.75 in order to exercise the suffrage
franchise, while it is possible for 1,750,000 to vote with-
out the payment of an equal amount.
Thus the Governor’s call is, in effect, an attack upon the very
opinion it accepts.
it is a maxim that the law injures no one, but the Governor
declares the effect of the Attorney General’s construction of the
nineteenth amendment is to injure 750,000 persons.
Can one accept this conclusion and at the same time believe
the Attorney General’s opinion is sound f
It is unfair, the Governor says, to permit those who have
failed to pay the poll tax to vote, it opens the way for fraudulent
practices; it amounts to a discrimination against the 750,000,
"men and women”, who, by paying the poll taxes, have “qualified
themselves to vote in the November election.” Yet such, he be-
lieves, is the effect of the ninetenth amendment.
The legislature is called to prevent unfair and perhaps disas-
trous consequences flowing from a part of the organic law of the
Littledennys
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