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EDITATI
DA“-Y M Lord, who sli?llrifide in
RO L @I thy tabernacle? Who shall
dwell in thy holy hill? He
. that walketh uprightly, and
; worketh righteousness, and
speaketh the truth in his heart. He that
backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil
to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach
against his neighbour, -
Psalm. 15:1-2-3. v
Dedicated to Mr, and Mrs. Jack Malcom, 226
West View Drive, City.
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Pollsters Continue Probing
Why Election Polls Missed
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—Argument over the election re
sults” in apparently never going to end., There's
still just as much jawing about why the polls and
the experts went wrong as there was on the morn
ing after. And the answers are still just as in
conclusive.
Department of Agriculture statistician Louis H.
Bean, who wrote a book on “How to Predict Elec
tions,” thinks he has one good explanation. Quoting
Dr. George Galiup’s own statement that his “final”
poll was based on information that was from 10
days to two weeks old, Bean declares that thie time
lag is what threw everyone off on final predictions.
In the two weeks before election, there was a lot
of heavy cainpaigning. Many votes were unques
tionably changed in this period when there were
no poli-takers around to find out what was going
on in-the voters’ minds.
“UNDECIDED” VOTERS UPSET PERCENTAGES
Another mistake the pollsters made was in their
method of calculating how the “undecided” voters
would vote. As of Oct. 1, for instance, 15 per cent
of the voters were undecided, according to the Roper
poll. For their final results, the pollsters had to
assume that this 15 per cent of the voters would
divide just as the other 85 per cent would vote.
The way this figured out, if Dewey had 45 per
cent and Truman 40 per cent of this 85 per cent
expressing a preference, it was assumed that the
15 per.cent would split on the same basis, or eight
points for Dewey and seven points for Truman.
This'made the total percentages Dewey 53 per cent,
Truman 47 per cent. There is no evidence that the
undecided voters split this way at all when they
marched into the booth and cast their ballots.
The Gallup organization is now making a study
of selected precincts, all over the country, to deter
mine where they went wrong. Some of the Gallup
experts are of the opinion that the people who were
polled in advance of the election were not repre
sentative of the people who voted on election day.
If this is true, it may be found that many people
who were polled as Republicans did not bother to
cast their ballots because they were so sure Dewey
was Boing to win by a top-heavy majority.
Normally, a light vote means a Republican vic
tory. That it didn't work out that way this time is
now atfributed to the fact that labaxr union political
organizations did such an effective job in getting
out the city vote. The farm vote, which had been
so heavily counted on by the Republicans, was
light. This made the total vote light. But in the
Democratic cities it was heavy.
PEOPLE NOT INTERESTED IN THE
CANDIDATES
Still another important factor is that the total
vote for presidential candidates was less than the
total -vote for congressional or state candidates.
This showed up particularly in Ohio, where 300,000
more people voted for the non-presidential candi
dates than voted for Truman, Dewey, Wallace and
Thurmond. This helped pull down the total presi
dential vote, nationally. Too many people just
weren’'t interested in any of the candidates. Some
of the undecided never did make up their minds.
What is really needed to settle this argument is
two more polls, or national surveys. One would be
to determine how the people who were undecided
in Oetober voted in November. The other would be
to determine why the people who didn’t vote
stayed home, and whom they would have voted for
if they had gone to the polls.
Poll-taker Elmo Roper has argued for some years
that there was no sense in continuing to take polls
on elections. At a meeting of statisticians in
Williamstown, Mass., in 1945, Roper declared that
polling had been tried in the three previous presi
dential” elections, but had not added to human
knowledge in any way. Gallup, Crossley and other
nationally poll-takers were alsc present.
Louis Bean spoke in favor of trying the poll once
mor,'g in 1948. In 1936, 1940 and 1944 palls, there had
been a wide margin of Democratic voters. Just to
provethe system was sound, Bean argued for using
it inf;'é_‘jgdear when the voters would be more evenly
divided. They did, and look what happened.
As for abolishing the polls by law, it’s out of the
question. It’s too good an indoor sport. Trying to
outsmart the unknown is what makes horse racing,
footballand politics such fun. Bie
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, President Truman’s Visit To
g Dry Torfuga
While vacationing at key West Presi
dent Truman took occasion to visit Dry
Tortuga Island off the coast of Florida.
He said he wanted to visit the place to
which Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was banished
for life because he set the broken ankle of
John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Pres
ident Lincoln.
Dr. Mudd was a physician in Virginia
near Washington at the time that Booth
assassinated Lincoln. Booth had caught
one of his feet in the bunting around the
President’s box in the Ford Theatre and
when he landed on the floor of the stage
he suffered the injury that impeded his
attempted escape. He was suffering and
appealed to Dr. Mudd for relief, The kind
hearted doctor was doing nothing more
than relieving pain and had nothing
whatever to do with the assassination. In
fact he didn’t even know he was relieving
an assassin. But he was sentenced to life
imprisonment for his act of mercy.
Of course he had to accept the verdict.
It was simply one of many unjustifiable
acts passed in that day of unbridled pas
sion. But in 1869 yel-ow fever broke out
in Key West. Dr. Mudd volunteered his
service to fight the spread of that disease
and led the way to its eradication. He was
pardoned then by President Andrew
Johnson.
While he is visiting historic points,
President Truman might take time off to
run down to Fortress Monroe, Virginia,
and take a peep at the room in whichi
President Jefferson Davis, of the Confed
erate government, was unjustly impris-|
oned for more than two years duringl
which time he was subjected to cruei
treatment. He was finally released. Al
though he was under charge of treason
and if convicted would have been subject
to the death penalty, he time and again
pleaded for a trial. This was denied him
by the federal government after a cabinet
member, Hugh McCulloch, had made in
vestigation and decided that there was no
evidence that would ‘warrant conviction.
The truth was that they knew he would
have been acquitted and that didn’t suit
the prevailing opinion of the North at
that time.
Bi-Partisan Handling Of
Foreign Affairs
President Truman evidently intends
carrying out the bi-partisan plans for this
government’s handling foreign, atfairs. He
has named John Foster Dulles, chief ad
viser to Governor Dewey in the recent
election, as head of the American delega
tion in the absence of Secretary Marshall
on his trips to and from Europe. Mr. Dul
les was well-pleased with the appoint
ment, Thus the Republican party is to
have a hand in whatever is done to settle
the important questions with Russia and
the European peoples.
It is well recognized that in foreign
affaire there must be no abandonment of
the bi-partisan plan. This nation must
keep a united front in these important ne
gotiations if full success 1s to be achieved
and the President is to be commended for
his determination to keep politics out of
all our foreign discussions.
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Rugged Individualist
We detected a new self-confidence in
President Truman from the news of his
Key West vacation. For Mr. Truman
didn’t fish. All presidents are supposed to
fish while in office, just as they are sup
posed to join Indian tribes while cam
paigning for same. It is the form of recrea
tion that the public expects and demands
of its chief executive — whether he likes
it, as Herbert Hoover did, or loathes it
with Cal Coolidge’s loathing.
But Mr. Truman evidently didn’t care
for fishing or for public opinion. So he
just swam and hiked and sunbathed and
grew a beard and left the angling to Mrs.
Truman and Margaret. There, we think,
is a man who is sure that the people are
behind him. i 9
I am cenvinced . . . war will not happen
within the foreseeable future. If the peo
ples of the weorld eoxhibit = modicum of
good sense and exercise the most elemen
tary instincts of self-preservation, it will
never happen. — Tryvgve Lie, secretary
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THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
Hal Boyle i A 1
The Poor Man’s Philosopher
THIS THANKSCIVING IS NO TURKEY
. NEw YCRK — (AF) — There
are many things to be gratefu!
far this Thanksgiving, not includa
ing the price of turkey.
For example, everybody can
still afford a cranberry.
So let the cust of the drum
stick soar. It'll take more than
that to turn the 1948 Thanks
giving into a turkey. We can
always give ihe traditional bird
a traditional bird — and pick
something besides pinfeathers out
of cur teeth. '
Forget the turkey. TLet’s count
a few real biessings to be thanl
ful for:
The election is cver, and it iz
now possible to turn on a radic
without hearing a politician run=-
ning for office on his vocal
chords.
~ The longshoremen’s strike tied
up scores of vessels, but the ship
of state is still rocking along
on an even Kkeel.
~ Congress is out of session,
The new look isn’t getting any
longer.
Nobody hags sterted a post-sea~
gon {footbhall contest called “the
soup bowl.” ’
More stores are stocking two
pants suits.
It has been weeks since any
body was bitten by a mad Eng
lish sparrow or struck by light
ening in a par=pom. .
The goose hangs high in the
land. Eeverybody is working,
going to college, or waiting for
the army to call him up and end
his housing problem.
Hay Fever
~ The hay fever season is over
and the real pneumonia weather
hasn’t set in.
The business depression pre
dicted for 1949 hasn’'t arrived.
The financial cassadras who fore
cast it have joined the pollsters
on the mourner's bench—or else
are taking Jlossons in astrology.
The ghost is still walking every
payday. Most bosses are meeting
their payrnlls on time, includ
ing the biggest ot al—the gover
nment. It sends checks now to
dbout one out of every six fam
ilies.
Television programs are bet
ter. Some nights not a single
wrestling match shows up on the
screen.,
Lumber is getting plentiful.
Soon a man will be able to ai
ford tc be buried in a pine cof
fin again. g
Rent Problems 9
The landlord has. had a Dbig
dent in his hopes to jack up rents.
So many motor cars are being
turned out that by 1951 every
body whe can’t afford a car will
be able to buy one aryway.
Russia hasn’t taken another
European country all year.
People aren’t telling as many
shaggy dog and talking horse
stories as they were last Thank
sgiving. 4
Lana Turner has quit wear
ing sweaters.
The U. S. Army, three years
after the war, has a new med
ium tank in the field equal to
anything the Germans had in 1939.
American combat veterans would
have been even more thankful
if they had had a tank like that
in the battle of the bulge.
At long last an etiquette book
now says men don’t have to take
off their hats in office elevators
when a wcman enters.
' Pretzels Plentiful
~ Pretzels are in good supply.
The United Nations delegates
are still arguing about atom
bombs — instead of throwing
them.
) Yes, all in all, there's a lot to
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be thankful for. Everybody work
ing, ilcving and living—inja land
at peace.
Of ccurse, there’s a dark side
to the ‘picture. Uncle Sam owes
$250,000,000,000, which is $1,731
apiece for every man, woman
child. PBut you know relatives—
they're always in debt.
Why worry? We're bhetter off
than the pilgrims, who borrowed
this country from the Indians
and never paid it back. Never
mird the turkey. Pass the cran
berries. I think I've got room for
one more. 2
DIRE PLANS
BUFFALO—(AP) — Tom Rocky
of the Buffalo club in the Ameri
can Hockey League is an under
taker in the off-season, but before
his teammates discovered it they
got quite a scare. Rocky drove up
to the Buffalo training camp in a
hearse he uses in his business. The
squad was sure hockey was quite
that rugged a game.
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Main Street
And Farmer
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Main Street as well as the far
mer depends on rich fertile land
for health and prosperity, says
John G. Brown, chairman of the
Clarke county Agricultural Con
servaticn Committee.
All peorle, whether in town nr
on the farm, depend on the land
for food and clething. Poor land
doesn’t produce enought to feed
the farmer and his family and an
additional amount to be sold in
the grocery stores in town. And,
poor land produces poor food.
Poor land and resulting poor
crops mean less money for the
things the farmer needs. Poor
crcps means less money to be
zpent on Main Street, less for
clothing, machinery, homes and
home furnishings. g
~ These are some of the reasons,
the chairman points out, why the
‘assistance . given farmers under
the Agrig%lid,_mgl_ Conservation
Program means as much to the
business men in town as they
do to the farmer. This assistance
makes it possible and supplies the
incentive for farmers to carry out
conservation - practices which not
only keep soil from washing and
blowing @away but build it up for
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“Green Grass of Wyoming”
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ed make rossible the record
breaking crop this year, says the
chairman. Bigger crops mean
more focd for health and energy.
“Through the Agricultural Con
servation Program the Nation is
investing in better living for the
people in towns as well as the
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NEW YORK—(AP) — Donor is
probably the homeliest of racing
thorughbreds, but the son of Chal
ledon has banked :$261,910 for his
owners on the tragk. However, he
was so bony and unattractive as
a two-year-old, none of the grooms
wanted to rub him down. And he
could have been claimed in his
first race, which he won, for 38 -
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