Soldiers to Congress?

ARMY & NAVY

Wets used to claim that Prohibition was something the women put over on the boys while they were in the armed forces and unable to vote: only 20 States arranged for soldiers to vote in 1918 elections. But this year U.S. soldiers may not only vote,* they may even run for office. The War Department ruled that selectees, National Guardsmen and reservists could take part in elections, up to & including getting elected, if it does not interfere with their military duties.

Early Senatorial candidates: Reserve Captain Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts, now on "tour of duty" with the Army, who will conduct his autumn campaign in uniform; Lieut. Colonel Charles R. Dawley (Rep., Montana), now in Australia, who announced his candidacy for Senator James E. Murray's seat. Meanwhile Garfield, NJ. was in a turmoil. Mayor John M. Gabriel, a second lieutenant at Fort Eustis, Va., is trying to run the town by airmail.

*States which have yet to arrange for absentee soldier-&-sailor voting are: Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico.

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