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Last week, another large citizens' deputation subscribed $30,000 to distribute petitions to recall Mayor Bowles. Detroit law provides that a poll on the Mayor's dismissal may be taken if signatures are obtained from 25% of the number of people voting in the last gubernatorial election, in this case 89,497. Four hundred young lawyers and others went forth, petition blanks in hand. Two, having garnered many signatures, had them snatched away by the police, now under Bowles-appointed Thomas C. Wilcox, long No. 1 Department of Justice agent in Detroit, who said of the snatching...
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...
...modification or repeal?69.54% of all the voters in the poll; 29.11% for modification, 40.43% for repeal...
This, it seems to us, is the promising aspect of the poll. The twenty-five thousand young people participating represent presumably a fair cross-section of the intelligent, thoughtful and influential part of the public. It is from them and theirs that the leaders in this country will come hereafter. If their present opinion can be transformed later on into some sort of practical, concerted action, designed to bring about what is really best for the United States, then there may be hope ahead...
...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