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...Prohibition poll conducted by the Literary Digest, opinion-collecting weekly, grew top heavy last week with Wet votes. More than two million ballots were tabulated as follows...
...Digest poll, as its sponsors had hoped it would, bred sharp Wet-&-Dry controversy. The Wet complaint: their vote had been split between Modification and Repeal, their real strength confused and diminished. The Drys raged more vehemently. Their charges: 1) Wet funds were financing the pool; 2) more ballots had been sent to men than to women; 3) by some inexplicable divination on the part of the poll managers, Wet families had received many ballots, Dry families none. Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals advised a New Jersey audience to vote...
...brunt of the Dry attack was borne by William Seaver Woods, Digest editor. Again and again Dr. Woods insisted his magazine was neutral. "Bosh." he retorted to all Dry charges, as he carefully explained that the 20,000,000 ballots sent out were scientifically apportionated to each state on the 'basis of population, that past events had proved Digest polls 95% accurate, that duplications were infinitesimal...
...Literary Digest tabulated the first 291,588 answers to 20,000,000 questionnaires sent out, found 118,934 for repeal, 91,915 for modification, 80,739 for enforcement. Drys had been loudly warned by Dr. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, publicist for the Anti-Saloon League, not to vote in the Digest-poll, which he flayed as "uncontrolled, valueless." Wets accused Dr. Cherrington of trying to set up an alibi...
...Literary Digest is conducting a poll, with subscription blanks enclosed. The Pathfinder, more obscure, has already completed a poll (see p. 16). Plain Talk has been screeching about alcoholic conditions in Boston, Washington, Kansas, Minnesota?a campaign calculated frankly with a view to newsstand sales. Similarly Collier's magazine, which began a Wet series in 1928. Liberty's editorial this week said: ". . . since its open espousal of the Wet cause the circulation of Liberty has increased much more rapidly than before." Liberty announced a $1,000 per week prize for the best answers to this question...