The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1930, Page 2

OOO mt et ee bae5 ene WODIFICATION A ALSO ‘SHOWS INGREASE IN NATION-WIDE VOTE Percentage Is 28 for Continuing | Suppression of Liquor, 71.7 Opposed KANSAS ALONE IS DUSTY Tennessee Flops to Wetnes Special Referendums Under Way on Burning Topic The drys make a slight gain in the | fifth week's returns of The Literary Digests nation-wide prohibition poll’ as four new states are represented | Loulsiani FIFTH REPORT OF THE -LITERARY DIGEST PROHIBITION POLL (From the Literary Digest for April 12, 1930) Towa Kansa Kentu Maine .. Maryland Masnachuse' Michigan . Rhode Inland South Carol South Dak Tennessee Texas Veen and over ® half million additional | \'* votes arc tallied, according to tomor- vow's issue of the periodical. The minor change for ‘strict en- forcement, which amounts to slightly lgss than one-half of 1 per cent, is taken from the vote for repeal. Also, ; a rather minute increase is noted for modification. Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Utah are the states from which first re- turns are tabulated this week. Of the grand total of 2,516,072 votes in this fifth report, 712,549, or over 28 per cent of the total. are fof strict enforcement; 754,266, almost 30 per cent, are for modification; while 1,049,257, or 41 per cent, vote for) sas’ still registers a heavy ma- jority vote for strict enforcement and is the only state that is classified as | bone dry in sentiment in this report. ‘Tennessee, which last week showed | & majority vote for enforcement, loses its classification as a bone dry in the current tally, showing a vote of less than 50 per cent for enforcement. In the wet division, Connecticut, | Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island, each show over 50 per cent of their respective votes for & repeal of the cighttenth amend- ment. ‘The heaviest wet vote reported in the present tabulation ts from Rhode Island. Twenty-two of the 44 states re- ported show a plurality vote for en- forcement, while the other 22 plus) the District of Columbia, show a plarality for repeal. In no state does modification alone show a plurality although in Call- fornia, Ohio, Oregon, and Washing- ton, over one -third of the votes rep- retented cvidence a desire for a — to legalize light wines and song “answer to complaints that &® number of people have been vote-re- péaters in The Literary Digest pro- hibition poll, the magazine explains that one person may actually receive and cast more than one bonafide vote as there are five polls in progress at present beside the main referendum of 20,000,000 ballots. “For instance,” The Literary Digest | says editorially, “one may receive one ballot in the canvass of 20,000,000, an- other in our special poll of Digest subscribers, another in our special poll of clergymen, and so on. “And he is welcome to vote them | all, because the special poll ballots are specially marked, and are not counted in with the great poll. “They are represented as separate and of lawyers, clergymen, and Digest sub- | “Most of the stories on hears of | Girlhood ‘The trying time in a young girl's life is reached res sible for much met wortes. Often there iiccoa e THE QUESTIONS 1. Do you favor the continuance dnd strict enforcement of the ‘i eighteenth amendment and’ Volstead law? 2. Do you favor a modification of the Volstead Jaw to permit” light wines and beers? 3. Do you favor a repeal of the prohibition amendment? * UD In analyzing the current returns people receiving more than one bal- The Literary Digest states: lot, arise from these special poll bal- lots. “The rise in the enforcement ratio “On the other hane we have dis-| is balanced by a ‘fall in the relative covered some sporadic instances of | dominance of the huge straw vote for duplication in the general poll—but | repeal, which is the talk of politicians what can you expect in a ‘straw’ vote fern the people from Maine to Cali- te la. “But the change Is so slight that it ef 20,000,000? What counts is the Proved integrity of our system.” Make a Modern Home Out of The Old House! 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