Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-11 | Page 4 | The Modern Oracle

l 1 1 A The e Mod Modern rn O Oracle a le GONE are the days days' of f g guessing essin the course of future events No longer is IS it necessary to consult the D Delphian ora oracle Ie gaze into the I entrails s of fres freshly ly slaughtered st steers or watch th the flight flight- of f birds Poll the birds birds let let them ballot ot with straw votes instead and you may mayl know what lies fes hidden in in the lap of the future P P Poll l the he girl students of Washington high scho school l at Briar Cliff Tenn Term and find out what U they ey about drinking in ill public 57 per percent perl ce cent t for for- 28 p per cent against 15 per cent I ferent Take a test census if you want to inquire into the composition of the average average Australian termite heap 1 1 workers soldiers larvae How many sailors of the British merchant marine can swim Poll a thousand and you will havethe have havethe havethe the answer barely 24 per perl cent A low percentage per Only half as many Italian couples are happily married as a straw vote reveals What does the nation think about the theA theA A AAA A A Ask the editors of newspapers with national circulation 54 are against 46 in fri favor of the new deals deal's fArm firm program To Tomake Tomake Tomake make sure also ask asic the farmers in 1934 they v voted ted 2 to 1 in 1935 7 to 1 in favor of continued crop control and benefit payments How does America stand on the question of social se security security security se- se Send a circular to the same newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper e executives 50 w will ll vote aye because they believe the people want it 50 will veto it for fear that it may prove an unbearable burden upon business Now turn to the people say in Kentucky they will be 9 to 1 i in favor of constitutional reform enabling their state to share in the federal bounty Does this seem like overwhelming support for new deal policies Dont Don't judge rashly rashly nationwide nationwide polls conducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion give Roosevelt a 69 9 per cent majority in February February February Feb Feb- 1934 50 per cent ent majority in September 1935 53 per cent majority in October 1935 Do you think public opinion fi fickle kle Watch the polls taken among mong the the nations nation's tion's chambers of commerce In 1934 some 90 per cent were against the new de deals deal's ls l's fiscal and economic p policies The same percentage turned thumbs clown Jovn own on the Roosevelt administration in 1935 Are re straw votes votes' straws in the wind the wind reliable auguries of things s to come If the economic interests of the voter at stake if it he are ex expresses cx- cx presses his opinion on trends in his own field of activity they are on the whole as reliable and as consistent as the Democratic vote in Mississippi I 56 per cent of the bankers and business men newspaper executives and economists economists economists mists polled in November 1934 for lor instance voted that business would be better five months later that is by March 1935 It was But ask the straw voters voter's opinion on things beyond his immediate exper experience ence and the polls poll's result will be about as accurate as weather forecasts for the week Yeek