Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1929, Page 36

% THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, MARCH 28 1929. 36 grafted trees—the only kind now l’*'-d.‘ductkm. ‘Today the California Englith They are superior to the seed'ing in| walnut crop amounts to about 48,000, quality of nuts and in amount of pro-! 000 pounds annually. S —————SSS—— Last Two Days~ ;ntlve Iast November, whne it mllectcd'?lrrcno;:c Thet;"\ertkm gmm 1s |“m"; | ferent ause e amendment will not | an additional batch of 60000 derelict| sve tne trouble of cancelin the citi- citizens whose names will be taken from | senship rights of the 60,000—and every the polling books, providing they do|one is waiting to see what is to be not present acceptable excuses prior to | dohe about woman suffrage. June 10, Indications are that the ex- | Sufirage leaders oppose the fliteracy cuses will be few and far between. In | Proposal, but it has the support of the the four months that have passed since | §overnor and the leaders of both polit- | election day none has sought forgive- | ical parties. ness for the omission. | Possibly the eight-year disfranchise-| The first English walnut grove was | ment measure will be amended at the | planted in California in 1867. Later 1929 term of the Legislature, even | the grafting method was perfected suf- though there is no agitation in that|ficiently to enable the planting of nize the party emblem and on election | franchisement for two succeeding elec- day to place a cross under it. The | tions, cight years, was the punishment. “picture voter” will ‘disappear, while a ‘That bill was great news for the great many of the 110,000 voters dis- | vters. At its first test, in 1924, 50,000 | franchised under the latest compulsory | fatled to appear at their precinct poll- | voting law will again participate in | ing places, and of those less than 2,000 | elections. : | took the frouble to file excuses. | g Peons Are Indifferent. SAVE MONEY ON STORAGE ICMITH'S tSr'Eii’R"c’i: AGENTS ALLIED VAN LINES LONG DISTANCE MOVERS CRATE AND PACK BY EXPERTS I3V ST. PHONE NORTH 3343 Clean Registration Books. Porto Rico accepted citizenship with | enthioptasm i 1917, an MR | s Poa i DORE acaried ooy | Shat @il mot reach the rank and file, | i TeSlstration books of the 50000 | who were not greatly impressed. The | op 4 bill that would occasion less trou- peons were indifferent o thelr NeW | e, even though it might not result in privileges as citizens of the republic | Cettinc out a bigger vote. It was pro- and overlooked going to the polls for . {Government’s Contemplated Action to Disqualify 55 Per vided that the certificate of registration When zour Children Cry for It Mothers, who take one simple | precaution, are seldom worried. With a bottle of Fletcher's Casto- ria in the house they can do what their doctor would tell them to do, feverish, colicky, constipated or stuffed-up with cold—give a few drops of when baby is fretful, the first election, in which the only Cent of Electorate. Specisl Correspondence of The Star. SAN JUAN, P. R, March 28,—-Alwri‘ experimenting with compulsory voting | laws, Porto Rico is prepared to make @ | | complete about face by providing legis- {for failure to vote. Later the law was modified. and at the present session of the Legislature all the teeth probably will be pulled. Next year or the year after a bill providing literacy standards will be framed and is certain to pass. | ‘The measure would ve been pre- | pared for the present session if uncer- | {tainty about the enfranchisement of | { women had been banished. The gov-| jernor has recommended extension of | suffrage to women and political lead- |ers, who have been opposed to woman suffrage, seem to have shifted their ground. | Their chang=d front is not the result | of conversion but of alarm. The Con- | gress of the United States, it is re- ported. may amend the organic act of the island to extend suflrage to women if the Legislature fails to pass the bill | this . year. Party leaders, in conse- | quence, have decided it will be better | to accept the reform and save trouble | for Congress. | Woman Suffrage Likely. | The certainty of woman suffrage, | bringing with it double the present | number of voters, has induced officials to cease trying to make every registered | | citizen vote. They are now devoting | their energles toward finding & way of | preventing more than & half of the adult population from going to the | lls. !' from the polls, a greater number than | (o | | the insular government could afford to | Y | | prosecute. Admitting their error, the | | egislators framed a new bill. | It bl e ekl i el R AR R S A I, be canceled on failure to vote, rein- | | gtatement of sultrage being gained by - filing a new application. The Senate campaign, but 75,000 registered voters | hatitq" the measure in time to have Sl‘l:(-"'":l“‘lu‘fi‘i‘:";"-mEl‘:E;cfm‘]':"‘s‘zk'gmuft‘; made it effective in the elections of sing, s | 1928, . - Showi WAsHiton. that Porn RIcaRs L oo (o otse, of Deleg8bes. (& sincorely appreciated the rights of | The old law continued to be oper- | American citizenship, sought correction | by legislative enactment. 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