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...irresponsible remarks the visitor makes. Painter Souchon, who enjoys showing his pictures almost as much as he does painting them, has secretly collected a whole file of these remarks, and has compiled tables showing which of his pictures draw the most favorable comments. He calls this system his "Souchon Poll...
...News poll to which he refers shows 34,000 votes for him to 12,000 against. It is apparently about as reliable as the earlier poll which TIME once mentioned, but neither seems to be taken very seriously in Montana...
...seemed a foregone conclusion that the Conservatives, under the leadership of local Boss Alberto Barcelo, would win. They were not so strong as the Radicals numerically, but the election laws were on their side. The laws permitted them, as the winning party in the last election, to appoint all poll officials and to run the election machinery pretty much as they wished...
Ambitious farm boys and girls now dream of better farms, not of city life-at least those who are good at farming. So said a poll of country youngsters themselves, taken at the 20th annual 4-H Club Congress in Chicago last week. Polices were the 1,570 4-H delegates, ablest and best-educated group of U.S. farm youth...
...poll proved mainly that the way to make boys and girls like farming is to teach them to do a good job of it. The delegates, all champions, were the pick of 1,500,000 members of the 4-H (Head, Heart, Hands, Health) Clubs, which are sponsored and led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. At the Congress they vied for 47 college scholarships, from $100 to $300 (4-H has a strict ceiling of $300, designed to prevent winners from taking things too easy, make them at least partly self-supporting). Outstanding prizewinners were two boys...