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Show EDITORIAL: THE SENATOR REPORTS From April 9 to 25 Senator Wallace F. Bennett (R. Utah) received letters from 871 Utahns, expres-' sing their views on 16 important questions posed by radio commentator Fulton Lewis, Jr. These- letters were part of a reported 1,400,000 communications to congressmen expressing views on Lewis' questions; and, because they came as a spontaneous reaction of the writer and were unsolicited by the senator, he decided de-cided to study the results of the questions and answers. ans-wers. On May 22 Senator Bennett wrote those who had written "him on the subject, informing them of the results re-sults of the tabulation of the answers to his mail and comparing it with Mr. Lewis' computation on a national na-tional basis. Utahns seemed to follow closely the pattern of writers from the nation as a whole. For example, in answer to the question. "Do you feel confident that Europe will fight to the end against communism?," the Utah and national averages were identical 53.3 per cent in each instance saying "no." Utahns were inclined to favor universal military training but only 51.2 per cent voted yes, as compared with a national average of 59.9 per cent. In expressing their views that President Truman should be impeached (the letter let-ter followed the MacArthur firing), Utahns were more positive in their views; 96.4 per cent voting "yes" as compared with 91.8 per cent on the national level. Only 98.4 per cent of Fulton Lewis' listening audience, who wrote their congressmen, though President Pres-ident Truman was insincere in his effort to cut unnecessary un-necessary government spending, whereas 99 per cent of the Utah writers thought the president insincere. |