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Gallup Poll Shows—

‘MAJORITY URGE

STOPPING WAR SALES TO JAPAN

B Per Cent Favor Embargo But Sentiment Today z..: Shows Decline.

i ie! i By DR. GEORGE GALLUP 8 = Director, American Institute of i -.. Public Opinion PRINCETON, N. J, Feb. 15—

snout the United States forbid the Bale of war materials to Japan? | The Pittman resolution, calling or such an embargo, is pending 4 the - Senate Foreign Relations Committee and many organized ° groups advocate its passage. Others oppose an embargo on the grounds that it would only lead to further strained relations and trouble with Japan. To get some indication of where public sentiment lies in this controversy, the Amerfcan Institute of Public Opinion has just completed a national survey. The results show that a majority of these voters polled—nearly seven in every 10—favor shutting off the American export of war equipment and military supplies to the Japanese, even if it may cause further troubled relations between the two countries. Since the pros and cons of such an embargo have not been extensively debated in public or its implications fully explored, the distinct possibility exists that senti-

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tinues. Embargo Vote Drops . The results of the poll are significant insofar as they indicate (1) the extent of American opposition to the Japanese policy in China, and @ the general tendency of sentiment at the moment to favor the advocates, rather than the opponehts, of a Japanese embargo. How=ever, the vote for embargo is less today than it was last summer. The issue put to voters. by the Institute in nation-wide interviews was as follows: . “Do you think our Government should forbid - the sale of arms, airplanes, gasoline and other war materials’ to Japan?” i Those with opinions ¥ voted as follows: | Yes 00°00000000000000000 0 5% No ees sss et 0000 0NSD RS OS 25 "An interesting feature of the survey was the low proportion of no opinion or undecided vote. Only about one person in every 20 (6 per

- cent) expressed no sentiment on the

matter. In an earlier survey on the embargo reported by the Institute last

. August, 82 per cent of the voters

questioned favored an embargo, Whils. 13 per cent were opposed.

: Sentiment Changes etoday’s study in public opinion in relation to what surveys have already found about public senti~ ment on the Japanese-Chinese con-

. flict. In the course of a half-dozen _gtudies on the issue in recent years,

the Institute has found a growing Hostility of sentiment toward Japan. : Two and a half years ago, a Boycott ,of Japanese goods Was favored by only a minority; by last

year boycott sentiment had grown|

to the point where two-thirds of the voters were in favor of a movement to stop buying Japanese goods. * And as the Japanese-Chinese war progressed, public sympathy with China increased sharply, the latest study. showing voters expressing sympathy with China by a proportion -of 37 to 1.

Aggression Opposed

- When Secretary Hull denounced the: -Japanese-American trade treaty last June, a survey showed the nation. 8. to 2.in favor of the move. The. main reason for anti-Jap-anese “sentiment is revealed time and. again in the Institute’s interviews with citizens throughout the country. It is not because the yoters have any particular antipathy ward ‘the Japanese as a people, but: because the Japanese are congidered in the public mind the aggressors in the Far Eastern war. * A deep-seated hostility toward ggression, no matter in what part éf the globe, is one of the dominant factors in American public opinion today, and one which colors sentiment on any number of specific

| This ‘hatred of aggression is not | to the case of Japan; it resses itself in antipathy toward ‘Nasis jn their war against Engand France and toward Soviet

fooa in her war with Finland,

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| 4: colonial atmosphere will prevail at a scholarship benefit dance be sponsored by the Civic Quest fn the Washington High School girls’ gymnasium next Wednesday n. Ushers will wear early erican costumes. bo student committee includes Dorothy Goslin, Ruth Williams, Mohr, June Garrett, Pauline ane, ‘John White, Robert Jones, rald South; Earl Weaver, George Meiner and Jack Lewis. Miss jzabeth Marie Smith is chairman of the faculty committee.

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Rep. Dewey Short (R. Mo.), “Qzark hill-billy” Congressman and Republican candidate for Vice Presidential nomination, is to be the speaker at the annual Washington Birthday dinner of Calvin Prather Lodge 717, F. & A. M., on Feb. 21.

ROTH TO SPEAK

Public Relations Expert on Anniversary Program Of State Group.

Almond E. Roth, president of the San. Francisco Employers’ Council, will address the 36th anniversary banquet of the Associated Employers of Indiana Feb. 23 at the Columbia Club. He will speak on the subject “Employers, Employees and the Public.” In addition to members of the Associated Employers, representatives of various business and civic organizations are being invited to attend the meeting, according to Howard T. Griffith, president. Mr. Roth is the first president of the San Francisco Employers’ Council and a nationally known figure in the field of industrial relations. He served as confroller and business manager of Stanford University from 1919 to 1937 and as president of Rotary International in 1930-31. Officers. of the Associated Employers of Indiana, in addition to Mr. Griffith, are Stowell C. Wasson,, first vice president; HarJer J. Ransburg, second vice president; J. Edward Stilz, treasurer, and R. W. Akin, secretary. :

15 SHORTRIDGE GIRLS NAMED NURSING AIDS

Fifteen students in home nursing at Shortridge High School have

in the school health department this summer. They are Virginia Skidmore, Roda Mowwe, Ruth Payne, Jean Miller, Edwina King, Dorothy Shanks, Normajeanne Hill, Ruth Schlaegel, Bernice Arshopsky, Eleanor - Werzenburger, Reba Branam, Jeanne Johnson, Sylvia Jacobs, Mary Montague and Mary Blackurn.

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~ NANNOYS FEARS AID TO FINLAND}

Loan Will Lead to Active Participation, He Tells Butler Group.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.) today explained his opposition to aiding Finland in a letter to President Daniel S. Robinson of Butler University. The president and faculty of Butler asked all members of the Indiand Congressional delegation to aid in extending help to Finland in every way short of sending troops. Senator VanNuys based his ope position on the grounds that to send

money now will mean sending

troops later.

One of the key men in the greatest statistical project ever undertaken—the 1940 U. S. census—is Dr. Vergil D. Reed, an Indiana farm boy who was graduated from Indiana University in 1922. : He is assistant director of the Bureau of Census, Department of Commerce, and in that position has a great deal to do with the direction: of the vast organization that will

year. Dr. Reed was born in 4 lob cabin near Muncie and lived the first 18 years ‘of his life on a farm. When he was 18 and still living on the farm he became the teacher in the local one-room school. : Taught All Grades He taught all eight grades in the school which was called Hell's Half Acre. came a teacher at the Eaton High

School. He enlisted in the .U. 8. Army

“I am not revealing the testimony|April 14, 1917, and served for 28

before the (Senate Foreign Rela-

months, two years of which were spent in France. ‘He was commis-

tions) Committee, but I am safe in|sjoned a second leutenant in the saying that the passage of S.3069|Feld Artillery and at present holds insures an additional loan of many the rank of major in the Field Ar-

millions of dollars to Finland and in my opinion many more millions of dollars to at least three other European government.and to China. “I am opposed to this policy.

“This does not mean that I do not sympathize with the sturdy little country of Finland in its gallant fight to retain its independence. I

{likewise sympathize with the other

smaller ~~ European governments which have been crushed and destroyed . . . . “Beyond this Smpstiy however, is a more controlling objective, viz! To keep the United States of America out of any more foreign wars. - “ ...I am convinced that if we loan millions of dollars to belligerent European nations or nations which may later become involved, it is only a matter of time until we shall be sending men as well as dollars to foreign shores.”

tillery Reserve. > He was discharged in August, 1919, and a month later entered Indiana University, where by hard work and attending summer sessions he was lable to. complete a four-year course in three years. He received his B. S. in commerce and.finance in 1922 and went to work. for W. R. Grace & Co., a New York importing and exporting firm After four years there he became

Bissel & Land, Inc., a Pittsburgh advertising agency. Two years’ later he became associate professor in marketing and foreign trade at Boston University and at the same time vice president and director of research for the Wells Advertising Agency, Inc., Boston.

Went With U. 8, in 1935

In September 1935, he obtained a leave of absence from Boston University to become Chief of the

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Former Hoosier Farm Boy “2d in Command of Census

interview 132,000,000 persons this

After one year he be-

research and service manager of|

Retail and ‘Wholesale Trade m the Census of Business. He continued in that position until he was appointed Assistant Census Director June 1, 1936, the youngest tan, at 39, to hold the position. te He is the author of several hooks

and has contributed many articles to business publications, : ‘He received his. Ph. D. degree from the

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from the same school. Dr. Reed is second in command of the vast organization that will collect census facts. The census is

in six sections, business, mines and

quarries, manufactures, population, housing and agriculture. e canvasses will cover a proximately 132,000,000 - yer apt 33,000,000 dwellings, 3,000,000 business concerns, 170,000 ufacturing establishments, and 12,000 mines and quarries. The business, manufactures and mines and quarries checks will take about four months. The other three, with the census in the urban areas, must, by law, be completed in two weeks.

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