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Wheeler v. Gallup Poll...
...premise your attack on the Congress for "stalling" in your Aug. 12 issue, as you have in previous issues, on the Gallup Poll, which purported to show that late in July two-thirds of the American people favored conscription. I shall not say that the Gallup Poll is meaningless in its results on most questions, although I have yet to see or hear of any person interviewed by a Gallup Poller, but I do assert that the Gallup Poll on conscription on which you rely is meaningless because it is weighted. You fail to point out that the question asked...
...year enlistment and have a waiting list? Why not tell that the compromise suggests instead the proposal to give young men a chance to volunteer on a one-year basis at $30 a month instead of the present $21 and three-year enlistment? Why not bring out that the Gallup Poll, which you use as an argument for conscription, did not get the poll on the present Burke-Wadsworth Bill. . . . Give us facts! And all of them...
...more men for emergency training in any reasonable time. In the hearings that Reader Partington cites, the Secretary of War and Chief of Staff repeatedly testified that neither proposed pay increases nor other inducements, but only conscription would produce the number of men needed. Although the Gallup Polls did not mention the Burke-Wadsworth Bill, the poll majority favoring conscription for one year's service increased significantly after the bill was introduced in Congress...
Dully inept was the Congressional defense of conscription. Majority Leader Alben Barkley in the Senate trusted Wheeler, Vandenberg & Co. to wear themselves out with words, the Gallup Poll (71% favored draft for ages 18-32) to offset a continuing flood of anti-conscription mail. Accepting an amendment to up Army pay, "Dear Alben" muffed a cogent argument for compulsory service: that the alleged necessity for the increase augured ill for the Army's chances to get swarms of volunteers. No voice raised in Congress for conscription had the sting and vim which some anonymous satirist achieved last week...