The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-01-31
TODAY IS The LAST day YOU
CAN PAY POLL TAX and Vote
THE CLOCK WILL STRIKE YOU OUT AT TWELVE TO.
NIGHT IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A RECEIPT BY THEN
BE A CITIZEN DON'T MERELY LIVE HERE
the Progress Of Lubbock Continues, and the Morals Of the
Country Corrected and Improved, the People Must See
to il That the Proper Men Elected to Office

Today is the last day in which you
may pay your poll tax and get vot-
ing privilege with II. There IL
grand rush on at the tax collectors
office today, and will be till the last
hour Of the day is spent, but do not
let this stop you from going right
ahead and paying Il just the same.
Pay Il II you have 70 stand in line
till the clock strikes twelve tonight.
II Is just that important. SO many
things Of vast Importance must be
decided by the voters Of this city
during the next eleven months, that
you should qualify as voter al all
hazards Upon this depends the fu-
turc Of our city, and look at the
proposition 8s though your vote was
the thread upon which the progress
Of the community hinged-and who
knows that il win not be?
The future Of the city, in matters
Of government will be largely ef-
fected by the men you elect to carry
on the work Of the city for the next
few years.
The future Of the schools Of this
city viii be determined to a great ex-
tent this year, and II you are with
out the company Of a poll tax re-
ceipt your will not be able to say
much about il. You could not vote,
and your influence would carry
mighty little weight II you do not
have interest enough 90 pay your
poll tax.
Then, your poll tax is a wonderful
II. a.. IL. ..L...f f,...I tI. e.~o.t.~
percent Of il goes to the upkeep or
the schools Pay your poll tax to-
day, and be ready TO vote when the
time comes
You folks, who have been Kicking
about the way the fellows down at
Austin run things, and how the Lub-
book school Is carried on and how the
city Of Lubbock is going TO the dogs,
and how the officers have been let
ting the bootloggers and the gamb-
lcrs run things in this city, get your
self together and get a poll tax re-
ceipt II you have not already done
so, and be ready to swat the fellow
with a red hot honest 90 goodness
vote against him. See 10 70 that
there is a man sent 90 the legislature
the senate. 10 congress elected JUS
tiee Of the peace, constable. Judge,
sheriff, and every other office that
is for the betterment Of the morals
Of the community, for the state and
the United States, and this viii be a
better world IA which 10 live, and this
vOu cannot do unless you pay your
poll tax before twelve o'clock to-
night. You have put this important
matter Of a long time, and you
should have attended GO It sevcral
weeks ago, but II you have not done
so grab your nat or your bonnet and
visit the city collector and the state
collector, and get receipt before
the clock strikes you out and you
can have no say in matters Of gov
crnment, except to stand on the side
line and tell the other fellows 20 go
TO IL, and then they would not have
n great deal Of respect for you.
The Avalanche and every good
citizen is vitality interested in the fu-
ture Of the city, and we are inter-
estod in the cleaning up Of the morals
Of the land from the smallest pre-
cinct TO the wide cxpanse which COM
prises the United States, and the
ballot box is the best place TO begin.
To the good women Of the coun-
try, who feel delicacy IN voting
should get away from that and take
their place in helping 10 bring about
many reforms that will necessarily
have TO come by way Of the ballot
boz The women who are on the
other side will vote, and you will have
60 do your part 90 counterat this
or, we men folks will have a harder
time than ever putting men in office
who have the nerve and ability 10 do
the things necessary 90 make this
country a decent place in which 10
live.
Pay your poll tax today Be n
citizen, dont merely live here.