Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-06-24
PUBLIC OPPOSES
Govt OPERATION
Canvass. ef 5.ls4 Editors Shows
4,466 Communities Against
socIaIistic Experiment.
oPPosITIoH GRO WIN G
EIehty-sevep Per Cent, Ia ts2o I"
Against ss Per Cent lr ,sts
Think Puhlis7is oppessdf safi
.s3s tirr TO RadIeaiissn. Ycn llsT

Ths American public Is more In
tensely opposed TO Government opers.
ton than II was q year ago, sccordins
to ths Newspaper editors Of the scoun
try Out Of ,6,154 editors ,reply,ns TO
auestionnatre, sent ont By the Press
Service Company Of New York, f46e,
or SO per cent. gave II as their .1udg
ment that the people Of their eommu.
mites veres Overwhelmingly against
the Governments competing tn busness
with its own citizens. ,sA satE
In 1919, the Press Service Company
conducted q similar canvass of editors
on the government operation Of rail.
roads, That ouestionpaIre showed thar
a3 per cent Of the editors considered
their communities against Govern
ment operation Of public utilitiess 2.
Apparently. then. II editors estimate
public 7opiniobs accurately. that opin-
ION In . year, considersd By cofnmu-
mites. has swung per cent farther
away from socialistic experiments
s.-;a- Eisvsn- sA4iIiien Circulation.
The combined circulation OF thsiPs
pers whose editors replied 10 t1.f2Psi
NniCn nCdhbt oSSoi oihB " NfG
usual estimated ratio between circula.
don and readers Q, constituency Of ht
east 100000 And this constitueh-
y is pretty svenly scattered through.
,ut the country. no considerablt ssc
lion Of any state being unrepresAntef
The estimate Of opinion based on TIM
thoroughly difYussd ~ per cent Of Tie
.ountry's population may. therefores
- considered q. fair representation ft
the people as 4 whole. Is
Another feature of the result 10
svident lack Of partisan bias T4e
major political afiliations Of the pAs'
pers represented are fairly evenly ~
vided. being 1887 Republican anH
L95o Democratic There are also 1.4d
Independent and "a miscellaneous
including labor organs, etc. \.
how little the results are affected
~ tho politics Of the papers u shown
In an analysis BY sections. In thS
Southern section, for instance. whsr(
replies came frem IS Republican pa!
psrs ana $50 Democratic. the peril
eentags against Government speratioBI
vas g.; IN the Great Lake sectionj1
with conditions rsvsrapd ATS Rspubi|
iican and l55 DemocfAde. the oppotI
htion was 81 per cent II
Replies from the West. Middle West
md Southwest show tnat It 10 . mist
take to consider those sections vastly
more favorable to radical Government
experiments than the East The radi
lcals can get little eemfert cut Of the
So Der cent Il thumbs down. per
cent above the avsraSe-in the South
vest including Artansaa louisiana
Missouri. KansaA oklshoina and Texi
u Tsxas, snes supposed to BE- much
oven ts 0svsrnnaat Regulation sx-
psrinsnts. returned % per cent Of un-
favefabls replica Out OF the IA edi-
tors replying IRON that state only
three edited Republican paperA The
- per cent exposition Of the North
west, including Iewa. Minnesota, Mon
tana, Nsbraska. North Dakota. South
Dakota and Wyoming, and the SS per
cent veto Of the Par West group, In
eluAing Arizona, California. Idaho,
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Colo
rade, Utah aAd Warrington, are sig
niAcant Of the prevailing conservative
sentiment on this question even in
the more radical ssctienA
judgment Apparently unbIassd.
The questionable closes with re-
quest tor the editors personal opin-
isn On certain concrete cases as fol-
lows:
DO you personally believe that the
Federal oevsrnment should own and
>~arsxs eAunahtfva indpstrfes To pro.
vlls: (al rertf1iSsrf (b) clethingf 7
(c) Automcbilesf (G Farm inple-
msntsi (sl Feodstunsf
subttantiaily ALI The editors who
gave estimates Of their rsalsrs spin-
ions alss anrssssl tAaiS swn hy~ re-