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...Gardiner, president of the Navy League of America and volunteer watchdog of the U. S. fleet (TIME, May 12), took to the air with a radio appeal for the postponement until December. He spoke of "rising tides of doubt," insisted the country should have more time in which to digest the pact. Though he professed to be neutral on the treaty itself, Mr. Gardiner's position squared exactly with that of Senator Johnson. There was little doubt that at heart the Navy League would be pleased to see the whole London agreement go by the board...
Last week the Literary Digest closed and summarized its Prohibition poll. From 20,000,000 ballots issued, 4,806,464 votes had been received. Because the Digest's 1928 Hoover-Smith poll brought in only 2,767,263 votes from 19,000,000 ballots issued, the Editors ask: "Does this not indicate that the American people are more deeply stirred by the existing Prohibition situation...
Whether or not the sympathy of the teaching profession is with teachers who want to smoke, it was demonstrated last week that teachers disapprove drinking. Of five professional groups specially polled by the Literary Digest-lawyers, physicians, bankers, clergymen, teachers-the last were first in point of Dryness (95,422 for enforcement, 22,705 for modification, 38,956 for repeal...
...school, and such exceptions must be at the discretion of the Committee on Admissions. And even if some earnest applicants may suffer from a rigorous exclusion of candidates stuffed in cramming schools, it is better that they be refused admittance than that Harvard continue to imbibe and fail to digest a money-qualified, cram-prepared group...
...college poll is particularly interesting just at this moment because it is announced while the Literary Digest prohibition poll is in progress. In a general way it supports the tendency of that poll as it has developed so far. The two together justify at least a tentative conclusion that the majority of the people of the United States believe the Eighteenth amendment as it stands was a mistake. Detroit Free Press