Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 1 November 1935 — Page 5

THE POST-DEMOCRAT, **'FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1935.

DISPELLING THE FOG By Charles Michelson Director of Publicity, Democratic National Committee

National Committee

We have reached the straw-vote phase of a political campaign earlier than usual this year. This method of testing popular sentiment is always interesting to politicians, and some other people. If the trend indicated by the result is favorable, partisans will see in it a forecast that the next election is coming out the way they want it to come out—if unfavorable, the politicians are quite likely to point out that the polling of a small fraction does not necessarily jirophesy the coming event because the silent, unreachable majority is not. represented in the sample balloting. Nevertheless there is a significance about an adequate, honest, unbiased and un-

manipulated poll.

These are prompted by current publication in those newspapers which are using what they entitle “America Speaks.” Up to date this enterprise has printed two pages— one announcing the poll, and the second presenting that whereas in 1933, 37 per cent of those polled thought the Government was spending too much on relief, the percentage of those making the criticism had risen to 48 per cent in 1934 and this month was up to 60 per cent. In various forms this result is emphasized a dozen times

in last Sunday’s publication.

The poll is presented by Dr. George Gallup of the “American Institute of Public Opinion.” You will look in vain for the name of Dr. George Gallup in “Who’s Who,” although his modest self-survey describes him as known to American journalism as the man who first devised a scientific way of measuring “reading interest” for newspapers and magazines. It will, I think be news to most newspaper men that the measuring of “reader interest” is an exact science. To a lack of knowledge of the formula as ascribed the failure of innumerable journalistic enterprises. Likewise the “American Institute of , Public Opinion” is a new one to all my newspaper colleagues 1 have ’ asked about it, and does not appear • in-Editor and Publisher’s directory of syndicates that supply news, features or pictures to either the regular or the trade publications. - Yet the feature 1 am talking about copyrights “America Speaks” and “forbids reproduction in whole or in "part” except by arrangement with the syndicate. It presents itself as a “nonpartisan fact-finding organization,” but it uses such nonpartisan expressions as “swollen relief rolls” in its severely unbias-

ed presentation of facts.

As a business enterprise selling 'stuff' to the newspapers it is quite

A '^irrKferstamiable that- it should^pick ’ its market, but in one case, at least, it resorted to a questionable quality of high-pressure salesmanship. A Demcratic newspaper made inquiry when it was approached to run the service, stating that it had been urged on them that the enterprise

had the countenance and approval | Wiley (L Jones

of the statistical branchy, of the | in the Delaware SupeHor Court, Democratic National Committee. Of September Term, 1935. •

Up to date there has been no disclosure of the method of taking the poll, or even of its extent. It is given in a general way that “secret ballots are sent by air mail, letter and postcard in addition to personal interviews by a nation-wide staff of trained interviewers.” It is stated that by this method information has been obtained from thousands of voters in every State in the Union. Fifty voters in each State might be construed into an aggregate of thousands, but there are no details and it has not been disclosed how, or whom the voting

list was selected.

On the day this letter is published—according to the announcement of “America Specks”—there is to be an actual analysis of President Roosevelt’s chances of re-election. What other questions are reserved for subsequent, weeks does not appear. The Institute is apparently not asking its mailing list to give a verdict on whether business is better now than it was when the Roosevelt administration came in. It is not asking whether the banks are safer now than during the last stages of the Hoover administration. It is not asking whether its voters are better off now than they were three years ago. Perhaps these things may be coming along, but there is no in-

dication of it so far.

The value of this straw vote system depends on many things. By a judicious choice, among sections or groups, they can show anything. As for example, one not very prominent publication announced that a canvas it had conducted showed that Roosevelt would get only 10 per cent of the votes in the Southern States. There have been hundreds of straw canvasses, of one sort or another, credited to various newspapers, nearly all of which gave the President the best of the situation. For example there was the poll of theater patrons conducted by the Gannett chain of newspapers—all Republican — which simultaneously polled the audiences of 200 motion picture theaters. They amassed more than 35,000 votes. 18,500 expressed their approval of the Roosevelt policies and 16,367 voted against them. Perhaps the most imposing feature of this poll was that the audiences were asked how they had voted in 1932, and the poll showed that the President had nearly 2,000 more votes in this group than he had in the landslide election. For all I know to the contrary, today’s page presentation may reveal a similar state of affairs. But I darkly suspect, even allowing full sincerity to the heavily Republican newspaper majority, represented, that

may be otherwise.

NOTICE TO NO ixl-RESIDENTS State of Indiana, Delaware County, SS

Alice Jones

course, I do not know whether I he salesman was instructed to make this statement or did it on his own, but I do know that the statement had no basis of fact. Whether any of the newspapers that are printin the Sunday pages—which appear to be identical, even to the inclusion of filler articles to make the columns come even—has any other concern in the publication than its news value is, of course, a

subject of speculation.

The only list of those papers so far published that I have seen is one compiled by Editor and Publisher, embracing 30 important newspapers. The first thing that strikes a newspaperanm in going over the list is that in practically every big city the paper represented in the city is the outstanding, Republican anti-a d m i n i s t r at ion journal. In Boston it is the Globe; in New York, the Herald Tribune; in Philadelphia, the Inquirer; in Washington, the Post; in Chicago, Colonel Frank Knox’s News. It may be only a coincidence, but the Editor and Publisher mentions that Mr. Lawrence K. Blair, “formerly in the promotion department.” of Republican Candidate-II o p e f u I Knox’s newspaper; is among those directing affairs in the New York office of the syndicate. To go from Chicago, we find that in St. Louis the Globe-Democrat prints the survey, in San Francisco, the Chronicle, and in Los Angeles, the Times. All of these are violently anti-New

Deal publications.

A.digest of.the editorial columns of the 30 papers shows 14 Republican newspapers, 2 Independents wjth Republican learnings, as against 2 Democratic papers, 5 Independents with Democratic learm mgs, and 9 actually Independent. The two wholly Democratic papers are in Memphis, Tenn., and in 'Shreveport, La. It might also be worthy of note that the Democratic Boston Post, the Democratic New' York Times, the Democratic New York Evening Post, the Democratic Philadelphia Record, the Democratic Baltimore Sun, the Democratic Chicago Times, the Democratic St. Louis Post Dispatch —all of them prominent if not dominating newspapers in their respective cities—are not on the list. It may, of course, be just another coincidence that is nearly all the large centers of population the anti-administration newspapers have chosen to print the survey and the Democratic papers have been left out, or kept out. Or is it possible that in both cases these newspapers may have bad an intuition, if they had no more definite information, of what the polls is expected to reveal and w r ere guided

accordingly?

Petition of defendant to modify order of Court as to custody and support of minor child filed. No. 5063. . Notice is hereby given the said plaintiff Alice Jones that the defendant has filed ills petition herein to modify order of court as to custody and support of child of parties together with an affidavit that the said plaintiff Alice Jones is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless she be and appear on Saturday the 14th day of December, 1935, the 841h day the present term of said Court, hoiden on the second Monday in September, A. D., 1935 al the Court House m the City of Muncie in said County and State, the said cause will be heard aud determined in her absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and Hie Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 21st day of October A. D., 1935. Mable L. Ringo, Clerk. O’Ne’ill and Bales, Attorneys for petitioner. Oct. 25, Nov. 1 & 8. Iowa Orphanage Enters 53rd Year The Christian Home Orphanage, Council Bluffs, Iowa, has entered its Fifty-third year of continuous service in behalf of homeless, destitute children and dependent aged women. During this more than a half a century, its doors have never b'^en closed, day or night. It has been a refuge for thousands of little children from all -parts of the country, who have been tenderly carved for, trained and educated, placed in fine private families, and who have become useful, honorable citizens. Such works as this are greatly needed in days like these, and their value to mankind cannot be estim-

ated.

The Christian Home Orphanage, during ail these years, has been carried on and built up to its present great size, by the voluntary contribution of good people from all sections of the country. Not An Easy Task It has not been easy the past several years, although the appeals for help during these trying times have been more numerous and more urgent than ever, before. Now, with times and conditions growing better, the Home is earnestly and necessarily appealing to the people for funds to carry on its work during the winter months, and especially for gifts as liberal as possible for the annual Thanksgiving and Christmas offerings to the Home.

Evansville Minister Sifs ’’Keep Soing” Strength to Your Am Rev. Orval W. Baylor, of_ Southern, ndiana. City, Gives Evidence ot Real Co-operation Instead oi Criticism as Was the Case of a Certain Muncie Minister Some Time Ago

The Hon. Franklin D. Rooseve t President of the United States The White House Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. President: In replying to your letter of September 23, requesting “counsel and advice” respecting conditions in my com munity and asking me to suggest where I believe our government can better serve our people: 1 want first to assure you that I appreciate the honor which you have so graciously bestowed upon me. While 1 am conscious of the improbability of my being able to suggest anything of material worth and benefit. I do not want to shirk the task which you have so sincerely imposed upon me. As the chief magistrate of our great nation, you have faced big problems. My opinion, as a nonpolitical observer, is that you have done well—remarkably bell. I may not agree with all that you have said and done, but I wcmld not be true to my better self if I did not say that I have great and sincere admiration for your demonstrated sincenty, courage, sympathy and

fortitude.

Confronted with the problem of doing something worth while for j e t er - the great common people, you have not shut the door in their faces, as has so often been done. Finding tne masses in the -throes of a great devastating and demoralizing depression, you immediately, proclaimed yourself the champion of their cause and with the courage and sympathy of a real democrat (l used the word not in a political sense) you have set out to give them a new deal—a square deal— their first taste.in so many ymrs of the Jeffersonian principle of

“Silence is a true friend who

never betrays,”

Beginning July 4, 1933, the size of firecrackers will be limited by law to four inches in length and live-eighths of an inch in diam-

Americans smoked 125,000,000,000 cigarettes last year, and the 1934 cigarette consumption reached an all-time high. More and more' women are smoking cigarettes. Never marry your oooosite. The old saying “always marry your opposite” has been proved by a noted authority to be thoroughly unsound.

In Berlin, Germany, yellow f-osses are painted on the car.' m

every man’s right to life, liberty those convicted of careless driving,

and the pursuit of happiness.

My observation is that the people in great numbers feel that you have sincerely tried and that in a great measure you have admirably succeeded, in doing what you said you believed you could and would do, namely, give consideration and relief to “the forgotten man.” Much that you have done, Mr. President, has necessarily been of an emergency and temporary nature, ahrT in .'i sensbU’revokutitmary. There has been no little criticism of this, phase of your work, but the criticism has, in the main, been confined to the camps of designing and disgruntled politicians and lovers of seif. The masses who got the temporary relief, while awaiting full and permanent restoration to their rightful place, have not

murmured.

While administering sedatives to keep a discouraged and practicilly demoralized people alive, you hove worked hard and faithfully for the fie ure. The new social security legislation enacted by the last Con gross, when thoroughly understood and when its manifold benefits are felt by the masses, will be hailed by all as one of the greatest forward movements in the annals of American history. The provisions for old age pensions, aid for crippled children and unemployment insurance are so designed as to meet the needs of the great bulk of our people and if carried out in keeping with your high purposes, will remove from our country the many and long-talked-of “corners” around which prosperity seemed ever to he lurking. The majority of the people of my community want nothing more than their God-given right to live peaeably, happily and contented. No liviing mortal can guarantee to them that they shsll all lie happy, nor are they foolish enough to believe that ail will be. But, they do feel that all should have the unrestricted legitimate right to pursue happiness and possess it, if possible. With this right guaranteed to them by the Constitution of our land, they believe it is the business of the government to aid in ekery possible way. My opinion is that people feel that your Administration has honestly tried, and that in a great measure it has succeeded in making real, not only a government of the people, by tlpe people, but for the people as well. I believe, Mr. President, that >011 are headed in the right direction and that the people, Hie majority of whom have the same faith and confidence in you that they had at the beginning, will see that you have a clear track ahead to the end of the line. There may be stops and delays, criticisms and discouragements a plenty, but in my humble judgement, if you keep oirkeeping on, the time will come when every honest and conscientious citizen in our land will rise up to call you “blessed.” Strength to your arm! Very sincerely yours. Orval W. Baylor. THE EASY WAY

Are you losing your mind? Accarding to Dr. Louis E. Bisch, the fact that you fear you are losing your mind is the best possible proof that you are not. Those who are really losing their minds are

seldom aware of the fact.

Robert L. Ripley, of the Ripley Believe-It-Or-Not features, has a

staff of sixteen researchers.

Rcnorts show lhai the Brad dock and Louis families are now off the relief rolls. Some families fight to get on the relief, but others fight to get off of it.

An official command requires all Turks, with the exception of newspaper men and doctors, to remain at home on “census day” and the census in Turkey is then completed in day. The first complete translation of the Bible into Enlish was finished just 400 years ago—in 1535.

“In ancient times the hungry gods, T'~'''"~d i" wood and stone, Enjoyed a living sacrifice Of human flesh or bone. Today the’ gods, more subtle, lurk Where wheel and motor roar, Though still the living sacrifice Is offered as before.” o NOTICE OF AMENDMENT OF BUDGET OF SCHOOL CITY OF MUNCIE, INDIANA. Notice is hereby given that the Board of School Trustees of the School City of Muncie, Indiana, bv resolution duly adopted by said Board, has determined that an emergency exists for the amendment of the Tuition Fund, item B thereof, title “Teachers’ Salaries— Elementary”, of the budget for the school year 1935-1936, adopted bysaid Board of School Trustees on September 14, 193.5, by adding to the amount appropriated by the original budget the sum of $850.00 for the employment of an addi tional elementary school teachex at the Jefferson School in said School City. The matter ox said proposed amendment to the budget will be considered and determined by said Board at a public hearing to be held in the office of the superin tendent of city schools in the Cen tral High School Building in the City of Muncie, Indiana, at fourthirty o’clock, p. m., on Tuesday, November 12, 1935, at which time all taxpayers and other persons interested shall have the right to appear and he heard thereon. Dated this 25th day of Octobci, 1935. SCHOOL CITY OF MUNCIE, 1ND. By E. Arthur Ball Vernon G. Davis Frederick F. McClellan, Board of School Trustees. Bracken, Gray & De Fur, Attorneys. Oct. 25 & Nov. 1

Young Senator—When anybody comes around talking about some new theory, you always indorse it. Old Senator—Yes, I’d rather indores it than have it explained to me. J

Beginning on November first, eggs will be sold in Michigan by the pound.

NOTICE OF SALE OF ABANDONED SCHOOL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will on the 15th dai of November, 1935, at nine o’clock a. m. at the office of the Trustee of Mt. Pleasant Township, Delaware County, Indiana, located in the Town of Yorktown, Delaware County, Indiana, sell and offer for sale the following described real

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