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They finally got around to taking a poll of U.S. children. A representative panel of 10,000 kids, between the ages of 8 and 13, was quizzed for opinions on everything from "Your favorite part of dinner?" to "Should the U.S. go to war?" They answered right...
Half of them picked dessert, over soup, meat and vegetables. Twenty-eight percent favored going to war immediately with Germany. (In the last Gallup poll, only 24% of grownups favored such action.) Although 71% admitted that they got spanked, 82% deposed that they were afraid of neither father nor mother. Most would rather ride in an airplane than in a car, train or bus. Cartoons, comedies, mystery and adventure placed high in their movie tastes...
...News poll the most striking fact was that almost 30% of the answerers were willing to go to war now. Dr. George Gallup's scientifically conducted Institute of Public Opinion, in a special New York State survey (monthly-for-23-months), could find only 21% who wanted to go to war, 8.5% less than Publisher Patterson's poll. Obvious conclusion: instead of chortling at the lack of war fever, Publisher Patterson should be brooding over its high reading on his own thermometer...
...Illinois, Colonel Patterson's cousin, multimillionaire Isolationist Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, simultaneously conducted a poll in his Chicago Tribune on the same question. Of 257,484 post cards mailed to every tenth voter, 77,229 (30%) answered: Yes (for war), 14,176, or 18.36%; No (against war), 62,394, or 80.79%. These figures checked almost exactly with Dr. Gallup's month-by-month poll of Illinois sentiment. Obvious conclusion: Colonel McCormick would have saved thousands of dollars by reading Dr. Gallup's polls, which regularly appear in the rival Chicago Daily News...
...Virginia the Richmond Times-Dispatch began a poll on the question: "Shall the United States enter a shooting war against Germany now?" Early returns: Yes (for war) 450 or 45%; No (against...