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It will be interesting to see the number of qualified voters in Rappahannock who cast their vote on Tuesday. •- .■ .- - ‘ One of these days perhaps the threat can be carried out: publish the name of every voter who does not cast his ballot and then blame him for anything that goes wrong. We shall point accusing fingers at those who did not cast ballots: “It is all your fault; if you had -* voted and elected the right person, this would not have happened.”
A fellow, berating the misbeguided heads of the government, was called down by a neighbor who stated, “You said you didn’t even vote. What right have you to criticize the government when you didn’t do your small part toward it?” The neighbor made a nice, permanent enemy, for few of mankind take kindly to such a call-down, but it was the blank truth.
Election Day, Tuesday
It is the duty of every voter to mark his ballot Tuesday. This great democracy stands only so long as the people exercise their part in the government and state their desires. Your Congressman has no way to know of what you approve unless you tell him, and the best way to let him know is cast your vote on Election Day.
Congressman Burr P. Harrison seeks re-election at the polls Tuesday.
Mr. Harrison always has given particular attention to the problems of fruit growers. Earlier this year, he was instrumental in having Rappahannock county certified as a disaster loan area by the Department of Agriculture, as a result of weather damage to the preceding crop.
Mr. Harrison arranged the conferences at the Department of Agriculture in which representatives of Rappahannock, as well as of eight other Northern Virginia counties and two cities, presented a plan for establishment of a Regional Home for the Aged on the lands of the former Army Remount Depot at Front Royal. He is continuing to emphasize thd need for early accomplishment of this project.
Mr.. Harrison visits Rappahannock, and the other counties of the Seventh District, as often as legislative duties permit, and he makes it a point to givie every citizen an opportunity to talk with him at least once each year in the citizen’s home community. He believes it is up to the Congressman to make himself available to the people for whom he works— the citizens of his district.
He tries to give prompt attention to each inquiry or request from a constituent, and constitu
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