The Leader-tribune and peachland journal. (Fort Valley, Houston County, Ga.) 19??-192?, October 28, 1920, Image 2

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Take CHIROPRACTIC adjust ments at the first approach of sickness; you will have after-affects. » no CONSULTATION and SPINAL ANALYSIS FREE. ' FLETCHER & FLETCHER « Chiropractors Offices Over Franklin Theatre FORT VALLEY, GA. Phones: Office 174L. Residence 288 r 1 Rough and Dressed LUMBER We are now in position to fill vour wants in ROUGH and DRESSED LUMBER. Call a It round and let us estimate on your next bill of material. We also make all kinds Of MOULDINGS. FORT VALLEY, GA. I I ♦ THE LEADER -TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA PUBLIC OPPOSES GOVT OPERATION Canvass of 5,154 Editors Shows 4,466 Communities Against Socialistic Experiment. OPPOSITION GROWING Eighty-seven Per Cent In 1920 as Against 83 Per Cent In 1919 Think Publio Is Opposed to Radicalism. The American public Is more in¬ tensely opposed to Government opera¬ tion than It was a year ago, according to the newspaper editors of the conn try Out of 5,154 editors replying to II questionnaire sent out by the Press Service Company of New York, 4,4(50, or 80 per cent, gave It as theft Judg¬ ment that the people of their commu¬ nities were overwhelmingly against the Government competing In business with Its own citizens. In 1919 the Press Service Company conducted a similar canvass of editm on the government operation of rail roads. That questionnaire showed that 815 tier cent of the editors considered their communities against Govern men! operation of public utilities. Apparently, then, If editors estlmau public opinion accurately, that opin Ion In a year, considered by column nltles, has swung 3 per cent fartliei away from socialistic experiment*. Eleven Million Circulation. The combined circulation of the pa pers whose editors replied Is 11,428. 817, which means, according to th« usual estimated ratio between clrcula j tfon and readers, a constituency of u> 'least 44,000,000. And tills constltuen cy Is pretty evenly scattered through out the country, no considerable sec¬ tion of any state being unrepresented The estimate of opinion based on (hit 1 thoroughly diffused 44 per cent of tin country's population may, therefore he considered a fair representation o: the people as a whole. Another feature of the result is Iti evident lack of partisan bias Tin major political affiliations of the pa pers represented are fairly evenly dl vlded, being 1.857 Republican ant 1,350 Democratic. There are also 1,48.' Independent and 4(52 miscellaneous Including labor organs, etc. How little the results are ntTectec by the politics of the papers ts showt In an analysis by sections. In tin Southern section, for Instance, when replies from 05 Republican pn 1 came pers and 389 Democratic, the per | centage against Government operation was 88; in the Great Lake section with conditions eversed, 478 ltepub j Moan and 155 Democratic, the oppo sltion was 87 per cent Replies from the West, Middle Wes and Southwest show that It Is a mis take to consider those sections vaslly more favorable to radical Governmen! experiments than the East The rad tculs cun get little comfort out of tin 89 per cent of thumbs down—2 pel cent above the average—In the South west. Including Arkansas, Louisiana Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Tex us. Texas, once supposed to he mud: given to Government regulation ex pertinents, returned 92 per cent of nn favorable replies. Out of the 244 edi tors replying from that state only three edited Republican papers. Thi- 82 per cent opposition of the North west, Including Iowa, Minnesota, Mon tana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Sou 1 1 Dakota and Wyoming, and the 83 pet cent veto of the Far West group, In eluding Arizona, California, Idaho Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Colo¬ rado, Utah and Washington, are sig nlflcnnt of the prevailing conservative sentiment on this question even in the more radical sections. Judgment Apparently Unbiased. The questionnaire closes with a re quest for the editor’s personal opin Ion on certain concrete cases as fol lows: : "Do yon personally believe that the Federal Government should own and operate competitive Industries to pro¬ vide: (a) Fertilizer? (b) Clothing? (c) Automobiles? (d) Farm tmple ments? (e) Foodstuffs? Substantially all the editors who cave estimates of their readers’ opin¬ ions also expressed their own by re plying to this lust question. Proof of considerable effort to avoid personal bias Is found In the fact that In many cases the editor differed from the opinion he-credited to his community The percentage of “nos" ran: (uT 78; (b) 88; (c) 86; (d) 82; (e) 79. While the questions were based on general principles Involved In tlio Government participating in corapetl dve business, the so-called Muscle Shoals BUI how before Congress was used as a concrete example of a Gov¬ ernment operation scheme. Under this lull a Government-owned corporation would he given broad powers to oper ate and develop Government plants and properties. It would produce at Muscle Shoals various fertilizer prod nets and sell them In competition with producers and merchants In the fer¬ tilizer business. Tho strength of the opposition to Government operation is Indicated by the replies from Alabama, where the Muso* Shoals war plant ts and where, of course, there ts Intense Interest and local”pride In getting Its expected peace-time operation under way at the earliest possible date. Fifty editors from that state replied, of whom 38 were opposed to Government opera- J lUm>, i In favor and 4 doubtful. OPERATION * OUT OF POLITICS Party Leaders Convinced by Results of National Can¬ vass of Editors. VINDICATES FORMER POLL. Overwhelming Veto Like That of Year Before From Both Sides of Political Fence. Washington.—Inner circles nf both political parlies here are greatly in¬ terested In the results of a national poll on the question of government operation among over 5,000 newspn per editors throughout the country. With 8U per cent of these editors, re¬ gardless of political fnlih, giving It as their Impartial opinion that the public Is more than ever opposed to the gov¬ ernment going inio business in coin petition with Its citizens, observers here see little chance that either po Utical party will find it a profitable campaign Issue. In the opinion of party leaders this sort of a canvass among newspapet editors is the best possible index of public opinion They recall a slmllat questionnaire sent out a year ago 1 e connection with the proposition thai the government take over the rail roads permanently rteidles at thal time from approximately the same number of editors showed 83 per een against the principle of government operation. They recall also that with In ten days from publication of the result of the former questionnaire tin sentiment for return of the railroad) to their owners had definitely crys talllzed. Comparison of present results In de tail with those of a year ago con vinces the political student not only that these editors have been accural) In their'Judgment, but that party con siderations played no part In form lug It. From Democratic and sup posedly radical Texas, for example the present questionnaire brought re plies from editors of 244 papers, only three of which are Republican Ye, the percentage against governmen ojeratlon was 92, which Is exactly thi same as that given by 20U editon from Republican Michigan, amony whom were representatives of only three Democratic papers, Othe states that pair percentages signifi cantly are Massachusetts and Nevada with 100; Connecticut and South Caro llna, with 97; Maine and West Vlr ginla, with 9(1; Kentucky and Nev Torki wltl) (J1 . Missouri and Pennsyl vania, with 89; Ohio and Oklahoma with 87. The result of the present poll as h government operation In each stall are graphically shown by the follow jug chart: OPPOSED TO GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP 0323 % IN FAVOR OF GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP |cn% doubtful ofl failed TO REPLY, i j DEL. ! MASS. NEVADA N. HAMP VERMONT i CONN. •S CAR. lUTAH | (MAINE i W. VA. MD. I I N. CAR. ' j TENN. ■ MICH. N JER TEXAS IOWA ItY. IN. V, R t. ! FLORIDA LA. | 90 MO. 89 PENN. 59 9? ARM. 88 Ft AN. MISS. S? 1 OHIO l OH A 87 10 -. OREGON VA. IF 87 WASH. 8^™" ILL. [NO. OF MONT a 34 wis. 64 WVO. B 64 ARI. I 83 CAL. 5 * 15 - MINN, 3 IDAHO 10 - N MEX. NEB. w I. COLO- 223 m T ALA. 7? e OA i» 3 PAR, ' r4 N. DAK, TOTAL OCTOBER 28, 1920. ffifift fi f i lJi l l M^ Si h 1 FALL SEASON is £ and while business may not be brisk it’s $ time fold one’s PR * no to hands. 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