Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1930, Page 20

U.5.ISHELD DRY ~ ATHEART INPOLL Straw Vote of Magazine Shows Only Six States in Wet Column. Coming in the midst of one of the | most spirited storms over pmhlbmon" since passage of the Volstead act, a straw vote, Nation-wide in its Ieflpe,l taken by the Pathfinder, weekly ml'l—l zine. published here, shows, according to results disclosed today, that the “Nation is still dry at heart.” The fact that nearly four times as many votes were polled for “stricter enforcement” as for “prohibition as is” | was taken by the Pathfinder to mean | that “a great many people are dissat-| isfled with present conditions.” The wets still hoping for return of the saloon constituted the smallest | group in the balloting, while less than half of those reporting favor light wines and beer. ‘The District swung into the wet column i with 288 wet ballots and 239 dry, while the totals for the country as a whole stood at 171,802 wet and 272,826 dry. Out of a total of 517 votes cast in the | District of Columbia this city thus gave | a margin of only 49 to the wet group. The dry vote was “broken down” into | prohibition “as is” and “stricter ex- forcement,” while the wet vote was “broken down"” into four different views. Prohibition “as is” in Washington polled 65 votes, while most of the dry sentiment here was in favor of “stricter | enforcement,” with 174 votes. Favor Government Sale. | The wet local vote shows 155 in favor | of Government, sale of light wines and | beers, 89 in favor of Government sale of hard liquor, 32 in favor of return to| the saloon and 12 in favor of private | sale at non-drinking places. The six States voting wet were Idaho, | Louisiana, North and South Dakota, | Montana and Nevada. | ‘The country as a whole cast 214.01!! votes for stricter enforcement and 57,953 for prohibition “as is.” ‘The wet vote for the Nation showed that 75,604 favored Government sale of light wines and beers, 56,502 favored Government sale of hard liquor, 15444 wanted return of the saloon, and 24,252 voted for private sale at non-drinking places. Results of this first Nation-wide pro- | hibition poll by the magazine was in- | by it as inviting “two specific | deductions.” “PFirst and foremost,” says the maga- zine, “it would seem that the Nation is still dry at heart. At any rate, it is in the rural regions, which, after all, hold the balance of power. This, despite the present deafening ballyhoo of an| extraordinary wet tendency. “This should please the drys. Dissatisfaction Is Seen. “But the fact that nearly four times 88 many votes were for ‘strict enforcement’ as for ‘prohibition as is’ would indicate that a great many people are dissatisfied with present con- | ditions. “Which may or may not be enmng- ing to the wets. The Pathfinder pub- lishes the returns for what they are| - The circulation of the Pl.(.hflnder,“::! was explained by the magazine, fargely in the small towns and rural communities, where the ‘dry’ sentiment is well known to be more prevalent than in the large cities. This fact is re- flected in the returns,” continues the, e, interpreting the resuits. “For example, in Kansas, which has only 35 | per cent of the urban population, the | ‘yote is about 75 per cent dry, while in New York, which has about 83 per cent | urban population, the vote is about 63 | per cent dry.” Maryland Votes “Dry.” Maryland, which has refused to enact a State enforcement code, went dry in the Pathfinder poll by a vote of 2.301| to 1,239, with 462 favoring prohibition “as 18" and 1,845 stricter enforcement. ‘The wet votes were accounted for as follows: _Government sale of light wines and beers, 497; Government sale of hard liquor, 431; return of the sa- Joon, 123, and private sale at non- drinking places, 188. Virginia went dry by 271 votes, with | 3,693 wet and 3,984 dry. In Virginia| 789 favored prohibition “as is” and| 3,176 wanted stricter enforcement. The Virginia wet vote was divided as fol- 8. Government sale of light wines and beer, 1,342; Government sale of hard liquor, 1,531; return of saloon, 309, and private sale at non-drinking places, 511. i o 22,000 Strike in India. CALCUTTA, India, March 11 (P).— As a result of the activities of the Ben- 1 Juteworkers' Union, 20,000 mjll ands have gone on strike in the Tita- hur area. Five out of seven mills have n closed and the others are only in D o5 000 work: t 2, workers are in the Barrackpore area. el AMUSEMENTS NATIONAL—Nasimova in “A Month in the Country.” ‘The Theater Guild and a superb col to this week for the first American presen- tation of Turgenev's “A Month in the Country,” & comedy of Russian charac- ter in four acts, beautifully acted and with settings that represent the dis- criminating aristry of the guild at its best. With a story that is mainly in- teresting for its al of the simple yet characteristic Russian philosophy of “What is—is,” the play in less skilled hands might not fare well. The guild makes it one of the most attractive se- lections that Washington has witnessed in some time, and last night a large and highly appreciative audience found the five scenes in four acts pass with an amazingly facile swiftness. “A Month in the Country” is a mis- leading title, for the action consumes less than a week. “Life in the Country, or Anywhere Else,” might have covered more ground without taking in too much. While it deals primarily with the struggle between a girl and a ma- ture woman—a married woman at that —for the love of a young man, whose chief attraction is probably his youth Nazimova e National and nothing else, there are other ele- ments in the story that tend to de- velop varied and expected clashes be- tween temperament and propriety. Nazimova is seen as Natalia Pe- trovna, restless and possibly neurotic wife of a prosperous planter, who dallies in love with Mikhail (Elliot Cabot), her husband’s lifelong friend, until she finds herself enamored of Aleksei (Alexander Kirkland), young student, | who has been brought to the estate for the Summer as a tutor for her son. Her ward of 17, Veira (Eunice Stoddard), is likewise smitten, and Natalia’s use of the weapons that experience and her position have given her to disillusion and put out of the way her younger and re naive rival and at the same time acquaint young Aleksei of the way | the wind is blowing, constitutes a study of the innate cruelty of this symbolic THE study of one of ‘The necessary suspense in what t have been & too prosaic theme is furnished in the discovery by Islaeve of his latonic affair with his friend Mikhail, and fine comedy is interjected by Dudley Digges’ portrayal of Ignati, the family physician and a real realist, and by Henry Traver's Afanasi, burlesque study of a country yokel. The scene between these two, and a later scene between the doctor and the spin- ster governess in the Islaeve household are worth the price of admission alone. ‘The play affords Washington a re- newal of acquaintance with the incom- parable Nazimova at her best, while it is a privilege rare indeed to witness such a universally well cast group of outstanding lights of the theater. The difficulty of identifying themselves by the hopeless names that doubtless mean something in Russian, but incite revo- lutionary tendencies elsewhere, is over- come nicely by the members of the company in spite of the program. A glance is all that is necessary to show how great is that tribute, The setting and costumes, one is in- formed, are exact copies of those de- signed for the Moscow Art Theater when the play was produced there in 1910. They are one of the highlights of the production. SWIMMER IS KILLED. Aquatic Expert Falls to Death Pre- paring to Dive. GUAM, March 11 (#).—Claude J. 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