Bellefonte, Pa., October 8, 1920.
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LESSONS IN CITIZENSHIP.
: Election Laws.
LESSON VII.
Are there many laws regulating
elections in Pennsylvania?
Answer: Yes. They have been ac-
cumulating for more than a century
and now make up a large and compli-
cated mass,
Is it necessary for every voter to
know them all?
Answer: It is not. Every voter
needs to learn only the essentials,
which may be grouped under four im-
portant headings.
What are these headings?
1. Registration of Voters.
2. Nominating or Primary Elec-
tions.
3. Final (General and Municipal
Elections).
4. Computing the Vote.
What is the law in regard to regis-
tration of voters?
Answer: Every voter in Pennsyl-
vania must be registered in advance
of any election, whether living in City,
Borough or Township.
Is the method of registration al-
ways the same?
Answer: It is not. The method of
registration depends upon th¢ place of | oq
residence. :
What is the method of Registration
in First Class Cities?
Answer: Under an act passed by
the Assembly on July 10, 1919, a Reg-
istration Commission of five members
is now constituted for First Class
Cities (Philadelphia).
What are the duties of the Commis-
sion?
Answer: This Commission ap-
points four Registrars for each elec-
tion district, only two of whom may
be of the same political party.
What is the work of these Regis-
trars?
Answer: These Registrars meet at
the respective polling places of their
districts on three designated days pre-
ceding the general election, to enroll
the electors of their district. This is
Known as the Fall registration. These
same electors meet on a designated
day preceding the primary election,
and this is known as the Spring reg-
istration.
Is there any provision made for a
voter, who is prevented by illness or
otherwise, from registering on one of
the three days set apart for registra-
tion?
Answer: Yes. The Registration
Commission holds sessions on special
days between the last registration day
and election day, when they consider
applications for registration from any
who were prevented from registering
on one of the three regular days.
What does a voter have to do when
he applies for registration?
Answer: The applicant who desires
to register must swear or affirm, that
he is a citizen of the Commonwealth
and legally qualified to vote, and if he
desires to vote a party ticket, at the
primary, he must declare his party af-
filiations when registering.
Can an applicant for registration be
challenged ?
Answer: Yes. Any qualified elec-
tor of a district may challenge the
right of any applicant to register.
If challenged as to his right to reg-
ister, what does the applicant then
have to do?
Answer: If challenged as to his
right to register, the applicant must
prove that he is legally qualified as a
voter.
QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTORS.
What are the qualifications of an
elector?
1. He shall have been a citizen of
the United States for at least one
month.
2. He shall have resided in the
State one year or having previously
been a qualified elector, or a native-
born citizen of the State and have re-
moved therefrom and returned, then
he shall have resided in the State six
months immediately preceding the
election. : ;
3. He shall have resided in the
election district, where he shall offer
to vote, at least two months immedi-
ately preceding the election.
4. If twenty-two years and up-
ward, he shall have paid within two
years a State or a County tax, which
shall have been assessed at least two
months and paid at least one month
before the election.
How are the registrars appointed in
Second Class Cities and what are their
duties?
Answer: Four registrars appoint-
ed the same way as in First Class
Cities, sit at the polling places in Sec-
ond Class Cities on designated days
for the Fall registration and on a des-
ignated day for the Spring registra-
tion. These Registrars also have
power to administer oaths and exam-
ine applicants under oath and shall
record on the register the names of
those whom they shall determine as
qualified to vote.
How are voters registered in the
thirty-four Third Class Cities?
Answer: In Third Class Cities, two
Registrars are appointed for each
polling district, by the County Com-
missioners of the specific county.
These Registrars sit at each district
polling place in even numbered years
on the ninth Thursday, seventh Tues-
day and fifth Saturday preceding the
November election, which shall be
known as the Fall Registration, and
on the third Wednesday preceding the
Spring primary, which shall be known
as the Spring Registration and in odd
numbered years on the tenth Thurs-
day, ninth Tuesday and the eighth
Saturday preceding the November
election, which shall be known as the
Fall registration and shall remain in
open session from 8 a. m. until 1 p. m.
and from 2 to 6 p. m. and from 7 p. m.
to 10 p. m. of each registration day.
They register the voters in the same
manner as in the First and Second
Class Cities. : :
What is the method of registration
in Boroughs and Townships?
Answer: In Boroughs and Town-
ships the list of enrolled registered
voters is made up by the Assessor of
the election district. It is the Ases-
sor’s duty to visit in ‘person every
boarder.
first Monday in May of each year or
as soon thereafter as may be possible,
and to make a list in a book prepared
for that purpose by the County Com-
missioners, of all qualified voters he
shall find to be bonafide residents of
his district, together with the: date
when such house was visited by the
Assessor. The persons thus found to
be legally qualified voters, shall forth-
with be assessed. What is this list
called ?
Answer: The list thus prepared is
known as the Original Registry List.
It is the duty of the Assessor to en-
ter opposite each name on this list,
whether the citizen so registered is a
housekeeper, and if he is, the number
of his residence, also the occupation
of the person at the date of the as-
sessment and where he is not a house-
keeper, the place of boarding, and
with whom at the date of assessment;
and if working for another, the name
of the employer; and write opposite
each of the said names the word voter.
Where any person claims to vote by
reason of naturalization, he shall ex-
hibit his certificate thereof to the As-
sessor, unless he has for two consecu-
tive years next preceding, been a voter
in said district, and in all cases where
the person has been naturalized the
Je shall be marked with the letter
Where the person has merely de-
clared his intentions to become a cit-
izen, and designs to be naturalized be-
fore the next-election, he shall exhib-
it the certificate of his declaration of
Jnpention and the name shall be mark-
Where the person shall be entitled
by existing laws to be naturalized
without making a declaration and in-
tends to be naturalized at least one
month before the next general elec-
tion, the name of such person shall be
marked I. N.
If the person has moved into the
election district to reside, since the
last general election, the letter R.
shall be placed opposite his name.
It is the duty of the Asessor to
make a copy of the original registry
list and to place the copy on the door
or on the house, where the election of
the district is to be held, and retain
the original list in his possession for
the inspection, free of charge, of any
person resident in the election district,
who shall desire to see the same, and
it shall be the duty of the Assessor to
add, from time to time, on the person-
al application of any one claiming the
right to vote, the name of such claim-
ant and mark opposite his name C. V.,
and immediately assess him, noting,
as in all other cases, his occupation,
residence, the date of his assessment
and whether he is housekeeper or
It is also the Assessor’s duty to be
present at the place of election, dur-
ing the two secular days next preced-
ing the day fixed for returning the list
to the County Commissioners (from
10 a. m. to 3 p. m. and from 6 p. m. to
9 p. m.) and it shall be his duty to
correct the Original List by adding
thereto upon personal application, the
names of persons entitled to vote
whose names are not thereon and by
striking therefrom fictitious names or
names of persons who may have died
or removed from the district
inspection, by any qualified elector of
the County or ward in which the elec-
tion district is situated as well as by
the person claiming to be registered.
Has a citizen any recourse if the
Assessor refuses to enter his name?
Answer: Any law judge of the
Court of Common Pleas, on the appli-
cation of any qualified elector, of the
ward or county, under oath, at any
time before the day of election shall
call the Assessor and the Complain-
ant before him to show cause and if
need be order the Assessor to correct
the registry accordingly, and the said
Court or Judge may enforce such or-
der as in proceedings for contempt of
Court.
Is it difficult for a citizen to enforce
his rights in regards to registration?
Answer: Pennsylvania has been
careful to protect all its voters in their
rights to be placed upon the registry
lists and by attentive examination of
the provisions of the law herewith set
forth, no voter need have difficulty in
ascertaining and enforcing his rights
in this regard.
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PENNSYLVANIA'S FORESTS.
Short Talks on the Forests and the
Lumber Situation. :
By Gifford - Pinchot, Chief Forester
Pennsylvania,
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RESPONSIBILITY OF TIMBER OWN-
ERS.
No good citizen lets his property go
to waste. The responsibility ef the
owner of timber land is similar in
kind to the responsibility of the owner
of farm land. In degree, the timber
owner’s responsibility is greater than
the farmer’s.
The farmer who would permit his
fields to run down and lose their fer-
tility, to grow nothing but weeds and
thistles, would very quickly become an
outcast among his brethren. When we
come to think of it, the lumberman
who permits his lands to be stripped
of their timber, and then allows fires
to run, and takes no care of the young
growth, is exactly in the class of the
outcast farmer,
The fault of the careless lumber-
man, however, is the greater, because
a ruined farm can be brought back to
a fair degree of fertility and produc-
tiveness in a few years, while a fire-
swept and denuded timber tract can
not be completely restored, however
good the work put upon it, in the or-
dinary span of a man’s life.
The day when timber tracts could
be devastated without attracting at-
tention has gone by. An awakened
public interest demands that wasteful
lumbering shall stop.
The responsibility of the timber
owner extends not only to his own
property, but also to the entire coun-
tryside around his property. The
weeds on the run-down farm may
comes from a forest area that has
been destroyed spreads far more wide-
ly. The destruction of a watershed
which follows the wiping out of a for-
est may cause havoc to people and
property for many miles. And this
has actually happened in many sec-
tions of Pennsylvania.
Our flood problems would be less
were our forest areas growing trees.
Our water supplies would be constant
and reliable in places where now they
are inconstant and unreliable because
of the inability of devastated forest
lands to conserve the rainfall. Towns
and cities have been brought face to
face with serious water troubles be-
cause of forest devastation.
It is the positive duty of the owner
of lands valuable only for tree growth
to keep forests growing upon these
lands. We know enough about our
forests to keep them growing. To get
young trees growing in the ground,
and to protect them from fire and oth-
er enemies, are operations well within
our present powers. They are not so
involved, “ifficult, or highly technical
as to require further detailed inves-
tigations, studies, and researches be-
fore starting to practice whav we al-
ready know.
It is true that much remains to be
learned about our numerous tree spe-
cies. It is true that a systematic and
comprehensive program of forest re-
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spread their seeds over the immediate
neighborhood, but the damage which
equally true that we have now knwol-
ge enough to grow and protect val-
uable tree species upon any land
where forests should be grown. We
know it can be done because it is be-:
less give us better practice and cheap-
er methods, but well-tested practice
and effective methods are available.
We are all ready to go ahead.
There is no sound or scientific rea-
son for delay on the part of timber
land owners in taking the simple and
obvious steps necessary to insure an
adequate and dependable supply of
forest products, and to make perma-
nent the cconomic advantage which
Somes to all the people from the for-
ests.
The responsibility of the timber
land owner to our general economic
welfare is unescapable.
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