The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-13
COLLEGE POLL FAVORS
 TREATY RATIFICATION.
Advocates of Rejection Only Third of Those Demanding Unqualified
 Adoption.

Washington, D. C., Feb. 13. - The unnistakable view of a large propor- ton of the nations youngest voters on the League of Nations as been eX- pressed in a poll recently completed, and it indicates without question that a large majority favors the adoption of the treaty without the proposed destructive Lodge reservations.
 The poll in question was interco1- legiate and expressed the view of the faculties and students of AIS institu- tions in every section of the country. The total vote cast was 158,07S, di- vided as follows:
 For unqualified ratification 48,232 Against ratification 13,93S For Lodge reservations 27,970 For compromise reservation 61, ,494 For Knox plan (separating
 league from treaty. 6,449
 Total 158,O7S
 These figures demonstrate the weakness of the opponents of the League of Nations and of the peace treaty as well, as compared with those desiring a ratification that will include the League of Nations, and in such a manner as will not be de- structive of any of the standing pro- visions adopted unreservedly by all the other big powers.
 Analysis of Vote.
 Adding together those voting for the Lodge reservations, the Knox plan and those opposing ratification shows a total of 4S,352, or only 120 more than the one group favorins unqualified ratification without the thraa factions mentioned are all classi
 fled as being literally opponents of the treaty, because of the destructive features of the so-called Lodge reser- vations, and so it is pertinent to point out that this triple alliance of opposi- ton boiled 13,142 votes less than those favoring compromise reserva- tions specifically. The two forces vot- ing unqualified ratification and com promise reservations are obviously friends of the treaty and the league, and they totaled 109,726 votes, or 61,- 374 votes more than the combined treaty-league opposition.
 Senator Hitchcock, leader of the fight for treaty ratification in the upper house of Congress, in present. ing the poll to the Senate, stated that the total of AIS colleges included both large and small institutions, and that the vote was taken in a careful manner by a bureau in New York, the heads of which conferred as to procedure with both Senators Hitch cock and Lodge. These Senators also furnished the colleges with argu- ments substantiating their positions on the treaty. Senator Lodge argued for the Lodge reservations, while Senator Hitchcock did not argue for unqualified ratification, admittins that under the conditions reserva- tions had become inevitable.''
 The argument of Senator Hitch cock was for "a compromise of reser- vations between the destructive reser- vations presented by the Senator l from Massachusetts, and the inter pretative reservations presented by me in accordance with the instruc- | tions of the Democratic caucus.'' | With both arguments before them 1 the college faculties and students de- cided overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying the peace treaty and in 1 cluding the League of Nations wft1 reservations that would in no way 1 destroy the effectiveness or purpose i of the famous Versailles document