The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-15

acts and policies.
 The industrial conters continue to give tho president good maJ0ri- ties. All of Now England and New | York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania return larger ratios for the prosi- dent tn this New Deal poll thnn they did for him in 1032.
 A special balloting conducted among tho bankers of the United States upon the same question: "Do | You Approve on the Whole tho Acts ana Policies of Roosevelts First Year?" shows n majority of noes
 Of the 2i,320 pos, -card ballots | received from the bankers Of forty seven states to date, 1O,04b. or 47J2 1 per cent, vote for the administrn- ton, while i1,275. or b2.sS per cent register opposition.
 ! About 1 of every 1 bankers who , voted for Roosevelt in 1882 now oppose his acts and policies, while 1928 per cent of the bankers who voted for Hoover favor the New Deal. as shown by the special poll tabulations.
 stantial vote for the New Deal, averaging about tho same majorl. ties as the popular vote of the poll in the various states.
 Another special poll being con. dueted among leading colleges still in session, in cooperation with their student newspapers, shows heavy majority vote of approval for tho Roosevelt nolicics among the Amer- ican undergraduates.
 The combined vote from seven universities from which returns arc tnbulated shows n vote of b,20l to 3,0O4, or nearly 2 to 2. In favor or the New Deal
 The ballots, 1t IA stated, have boon received 40 far from Harvard. Ynlc, Cornell, Brown, University or Virginia, University of wisconsin and New York university.
 Voting in ton other colleges hs now being conducted.
 "In the fifth report of the main polI, twenty-three hitherto un- Ihoord from states make their first appearance" The Literary Digest will stnto editorlally tomorrow.
 "rhc most impressive entrance is made by California with 2b,36G bal- lots, of those ballots 17,b64 were cnst for the New Deal and 7,702 apainst--n favorable ratio Of GO.27 per cent. Tn 1032, California gave Roosevelt q 5S.4i per cont lead.
 "And in the south. Alabama shows up with n b-l mnJori!y. Georgia 6-1, Louisiana practically Al, Mississippi Al, South Carolina almost Gel. ,
 Tn the middle west, kansns re: turns New Deal majority or os."0 per cent, not very far from It's l0a2 nooscveit vote of 53.b7 per cent. Tn iowa and Nebraska, with their farm troubles, the presidents ratio has improved 0 bit. .
 "Farther west. Utah gives him 70.SG per cent. That silver state gave him 56.52 per cent in 1882.
 "Maine provides n real sensation in returning q larger majority Tor inc New Deal, relatively, thhn Massac chusetts or Nebraska. Ver- mont Is isolated in her opposition to the New Deal. with forty'sovcn sister states against her.
 "Ponnsylvania returns bb.oan Yes votes against 3l,443 .No'.' Long n republican state or im- mense industrial wealth, It remains the leading Roosevelt state Tn the east-nnd perhaps in the whole country, all things considered.
 "The poll of college students conducted by The Literary Digest in cooperation with seventeen stu- dent newspapers continues to show n heavy majority vote of approval for the Roosevelt policies among American undergraduates.
 "Prompt returns were stimulated bv the excellent work of the under gra duate newspapers cooperating with The Literary Digest. The pa pesr responsible for the return rec corded this week include: The liar. yard Crimson, the Yale Daily News. the Cornell Sun, the Brown univer' sIty Herald, the University Of vir- glnia College Topics, the university of Wisconsin Cardinal. ana tne New York university Heights News. The figures follow: m
 Harvard 1911 1924 2,935 Yale :. .1,2s3 S3p 2.1iS II. of Virginia 1sO 6s FPS U. of Wisconsin 374 14S 522 New York U. 271 109 $50
 "It wil lbe recalled that the first report from Yale and Harvard re- vealed an astonishing overturn of student sentiment in favor Of Roosevelt--both universities having voted overwhelmingly for Hoover in 1892 straw polls. .L,
 "A special poll of the bankers throughout the United States mas been conducted on the same ques-i ton by The Literary Digest in con- nection with the general poll. The ballots returned by the bankers make up one of the several sunple. menL,ry polls designed to test the views prevalent in well-defned bus mess. professional and social class