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BEAUTY ABOUNDS—The eleven Homecoming queen semi-finalists smile appreciation after being selected from the 21 original contestants. From left to right, front row are, Suzie Fisher, Prairie Village sophomore; Patricia Wilson, Kansas City junior; Marsha Wertzberger, Kansas City, Mo., senior; second row, Lawalta Dean
Heyde, Shawnee Mission junior; Sharon Stark,
Leawood sophomore; Mary Sheppeard, Clay
Center junior; Leila Val Larson, Merriam freshman;
top row, Janet McIntosh, Chapman senior;
Leslie Gail Coover, Junction City senior; Mary Nan Scamman, Tarkio, Mo., junior; and Sue Ann Weston, Overland Park senior.
Puerto Ricans Denied Voting Rights
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—A minority group of about 200,000 US citizens has been deprived of voting rights in New York state by legislation held now to be constitutional.
Ev Lyle C. Wilson
Wednesday. November 1. 1961 University Daily Kansan
These are Spanish-speaking citizens. They are Puerto Ricans who fled their island to establish a Spanish language ghetto in New York City. New York state confronted these Puerto Ricans with a law establishing an English-language literacy test for voters. A three-judge federal court last week upheld the law. The court found that the literacy test did not violate the constitutional rights of any person by reason of race, color or creed.
THERE HAS BEEN little public interest in this New York statute nor in the 200,000 or so US citizens who are deprived by it of one of the top privileges of citizenship.
It is reasonable to believe, however, that if such a statute in any state, including New York state, deprived 200,000 members of any other minority group of voting rights there would be a great public outcry.
If a Southern state barred 200,000 Negroes from the polls by tests held to be constitutional by all the lower courts concerned, the outey still would be very large indeed.
AND THE SPOKESMEN for the afflicted minority would book time in higher courts to challenge such harassment. And they would carry their challenge to the supreme court in much anticipation that a ruling favorable to their minority could be had.
No such appeal is reported so far in behalf of the transplanted Puerto Ricans. There is in this incident a lesson for these US citizens who find themselves barred from the polls.
EDUCATED? To what standard and who is to be the judge? Literate in letters; precisely what does it mean and would a grade school
It is not alleged that all of them, or any, are illiterate. They are literate only in their native tongue, Spanish. The dictionary definition of literate is that one must be: Literate in letters; educated; specifically able to read and to write."
or a high school diploma attest it?
Able to read and to write? Read
and write what and must the words
be properly spelled?
Those are fair questions because the election officials could ease up or crack down in their interpretations of the law to admit or to exclude citizens from the polls.
The lesson for the New York colony of Puerto Ricans is that they need an organizer. They also need a lawyer, and a public relations expert. The organizer could mold them into a voting bloc; a potential voting bloc, of course. The public relations expert could stir up a great public outcry against the dischfranchisement of these citizens.
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. —John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire
And the lawyer could get to work appealing their case toward the Supreme Court.
Policemen Have Extraordinary Motivation
LAREDO, Tex. — (UPI) — Police-
mener Raimo Riosos and Sam Brewer
drew special praise from Detective Chief A. H. Jimenez
arresting three burglars in a junk yard.
Jimenee owns the junk yard. "The nerve of some burglar," he said.
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