The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 8, 1922, Page 3

SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1922 4 i Ly Enforcement? Modification? Repeal? THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. For All Soldiers and Sailors Who Wore the. Uniform During the World War? The Literary Digest, in a Nation-Wide Poll, Has Mailed Individual Secret Ballots to More than TEN MILLION VOTERS, asking them whether: they favor a DRY, MOIST, or WET Policy and _ ; _ whether they are FOR or AGAINST the ‘BONUS. -STARTLIN EVELAT _ OF THE REAL WILL OF THE PEOPLE Which will point, in advance of Election to the DEFEAT or VICTORY of many Candidates. IN DIVIDUAL SECRET BALLOTS have been mailed to more than. TEN MIL LION MEN AND WOMEN VOTERS throughout the United States. Every ‘Vote cast will express the free, uninfluenced, secret preference of the voter, unknown to anyone but himself or herself.. Every voter who receives one of these ballots. is urged to mark and mail it at once. Whichever policy on Prohibition and the,Sol- diers’ Bonus you favor, be sure to back it now by your vote, because your vote will ‘ help to strengthen your side in determining the final policy. ' ALL CLASSES OF VOTERS in all States and all communities in the Nation are being polled with complete impartiality. They include business men, merchants, farmers, manufacturers, railroad employees, bankers, clerks, builders, contrac- tors, superintendents, managers, carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, painters, me- chartics, printers, miners, steel workers, workers in every trade and’branch of in- dustry, both union and non-union, professional men and women of all classes, in- cluding lawyers, doctors, clergymen, authors, actors, newspaper men, dentists, en- gineers, educators, architects, musicians, etc., in short, all the classes of men ‘and women who make’ up the voting population in all parts ofthe country. NO PROPAGANDA OF ANY KIND is connected with this great national poll of the American people. The Literary Digest is always strictly non-partisan and im- partial on all controversial questions. It records the facts and the opinions of all parties and all classes. That is why ithas come to be regarded by millions of Americans.as the one representative and neers periodical record of all , phases of American life. HERE IS A COPY OF THE SECRET BALLOT (This copy is printed here for information only, and will not be accepted in the voting.) Secret Ballot on Prohibition and Soldiers’ Bonus No Signature—No Condition—No Obligation—Mark and Mail-at Once OO ——————OEEEEEE 2 y (Put a cross (x) in the square only opposite the policy you PROHIBITION: 2 «= 1, Do you favor the continuance and strict enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead Law? 2, Do you favor a modification of the Volstead Law to permit CT Jight wines and beers? = Sug oxenbg INO uy (x) aU o 8. Do you favor a repeal of the Prohibition. Amendment? {2 ———————————————— ——————————— SOLDIERS’ BONUS: ‘(Put a cross (x) in the square under “Yes” or “No”) < YES. NO Do you favor a Federal Bonus for all American Soldiers and Sailors who wore the Uniform during the World War? It Is Important to Mark and Return This Ballot Immediately MILLIONS OF CITIZENS are discussing these two questions with intense feeling. Both questions have a personal interest to every man and woman, and ’child‘in the United States, and will be controlling factors in the coming Congressional: elec- tions in many States. This Nation-wide poll, now being taken by THE LITER- ARY DIGEST, will reveal, in advance of the election, how the majority of the citi- zens stand on thesé questions. The result is everywhere eagerly awaited. EVERY WEEK FROM EVERY STATE IN THE UNION The'results will‘appear in THE LITERARY DIGEST. .A\l the figures will be given in detail and will be analyzed and explained, State by State, until the poll is completed. ‘The first announce- ment will be in the July 8th issue. These reports will-have unique and decisive interest. for politi- cal leaders, the press, and citizens of the whole country. DIGEST readers, of course, will get them first'and in the most complete detail. At the same time, and all through the j year, THE LITERARY DIGEST will be gathering care- fully and reporting all the facts and-opinions on all sides bearing upon all the great problems and issues which are being discust and which must be settled by the American people. THE LIF- ERARY DIGEST is wonderfully equipped for this service by a system built up at great expense through-many years of careful work, and reaching into thousands of newspaper and periodical of- fices in all parts of the world. The reader can depend upon THE LITERARY DIGEST with absolute certainty as it reveals, from week to week, free from all prejudice and partizanship, the real state of the Nation's mind, the real facts affecting all: issues, andthe progress of all the great problems toward settlement. :