Evening star., 1952-08-03
League Aims
Program at
Servicennun
New Voters
Acquainted
With Issues
By Ruth Deon

With every one else jumping on
the "get out the vote" bandwagon,
the League Of Women Voters is
concentrating its energies on get
ting to the voter before he gets to
the polls.
In anticipation Of the wild rush
to the ballot boxes, league officials
are concerned with whether the
voter will know for whom and
what issues he's voting for.
While adherents of both politi-
cal parties are taking well earned
rests after vheir strenuous con-
ventions, league workers at ma
tional headquarters here are
busily grinding out pamphlets
giving the voter the facts he will
need on November 4.
The league program has always
centered around giving the voting
populace an impartial view Of
issues and candidates but this
year greater effort is being made
to reach the serviceman and the
new voter.
In cooperation with the De-
partment of Defense, the league
has prepared a kit for distribu-
ton at service posts throughout
the country, which will benefit
not only the man in service in
casting his absentee ballot, but
his family as well.
The kit contains q chart, pre-
pared by the Department of De-
fense. of all registration and pri-
mary dates for every State plus
the names Of State and county Of
flcials to whom the absentee voter
should write for further informa-
ton.
For the serviceman's family, the
kit contains a booklet Of absentee
voter information compiled by
Mrs. Clarence Fisher, chairman
of the Voters Service of the Dis
trict League Of Women Voters.
Over 1900 Of the kits are al
ready in use at commissaries and
USO's throughout the Nation.
Local leagues have also set up
information booths in towns out
side large military installations.
Commenting on this new phase
Of the leagues program. a league
official said last week: This is
the. first time that a real effort
has been made to give the men
in the armed forces the informa-
ton they need, not only in the
national election but in the pri-
marieS."
Members Of a Georgia league
took one step ahead of their sis
terS in other States. They talked
with the State director of selective
service and got his permission to
get in touch with the local boards
Of selective service to ask that
league materials be given to each
young man who registered.
In anticipation of the oratory
that will be filling the air in the
next two months, the league is
getting UP pamphlets on the ron
call records of members Of Con-
gress-just so the home folks can
see for themselves if their candi-
date really means what he says.
A Texas league decided to get
primary candidates views in black
and white. A QUESTIONABLE was
sent to those running for national,
State and county Offices, asking
them to state their stand on such
issues as what United States policy
should be in regard to the United
Nations. aid to underdeveloped
countries, and cut of Federal ex-
penditures. They answered them,
too, and sent them back for the
voter to appraise without the dis
fractions of flowery phrases, bunt-
ing draped platforms and cheer
ing crowds.
In addition to the information
kits. league headquarters has dis
tributed 10000 81 Will Vote" tags
and Is now working on a sticker
shaped like an all-day sucker,
reading: "All Day Suckers on
Election Day Take a Licking the
Rest of the Year"
Local leagues have taken up
the poster idea. In Knoxville,
Tenn. for example. women voters
persuaded local food stores to
have grocery bags printed with