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(Continued from Page 8) interlude to each ensuing season. You have this day to declare yourself head of a Nation. 'And now, O Lord, my God, Thou hast made Thy servant ruler ovpr all the people. Give unto him an understanding heart, that he may know how to go out and come in before this great people; that he may discern between good and bad. For who is able to judge this Thy so great a people?' were the words of a royal sovereign; and not less applicable to him who is invested with the chief magistracy of a nation, though he wear not a crown, or robes of royalty." That is a fair sample of the letter writing of Abigail Adams.

There is one thing tfrat*t * o""" keeping me hot under the collar the last few years, and that is so-called polls of public opinion that we read about in the papers all the time. I've been waiting patiently for someone to start injecting some facts into this sampling system of finding what the public thinks, but it has been slow in coming. Recently Congress has begun making some inquiries into these poflls, their methods, and their results, but even this approach seems to me to treat the matter with a lot more respect than it deserves. I am speaking, you understand, of these folks who, without going to the trouble to ask us, proceed with all the positiveness of a galled mule whose hind leg has been tickled, to tell us exactly what we think about important matters. ***

Of course, the American public loves to bo imposed upon. It always has. Some wise man has said that humbuggery is our national vice. P. T. Barnum built a great reputation on that philosophy. He said that there is a sucker born every minute, and his job was harvesting them. If he had lived today he would have changed that remark to read every second, instead of minute. Fluman nature hasn't changed. There are just more of them. I can't think of anything that so completely imposes on my intelligence as the calm assumption that you can find out what a thousand men think by simply asking one or two of them. How anyone but an intellectual doodlebug could fall for that sort of stuff is beyond me. It wouldn't fool a long-eared burro in the Mexican desert'

You understand, of course, that these folks who so brazenly tell us all just what we think, make no pretense of having asked us. O, not at all ! According to a recent magazine article on the subject "the pollsters contend that if they didn't actually interview you, they DID a person of the same age, race, religion, sex, income, etc.," and they discover what YOU think by asking HIM. But did you ever tell any of these pollsters what YOU thought? Did you ever know anyone who ever told any of them what they thought? Yet you pick up the papers and discover that they know what all of us think. Any man who believes such stuff should run, not walk, to the nearest surgeon and have his skull lifted to give his brain room to grow.

But, say the pollsters according to this magezine article, results are what counts. We guess right, they say. f can only think of one answer to that. NUTS ! Everyone knows about statistics, and how difficult they are to disprove. If it were possible to prove it, I would like to bet that three intelligent, well-posted men working together, could come closer to an actual poll of public thought than these socalled samplers do. I don't believe you can tell what one TWIN thinks, by asking the other. Yet they would have us believe that they can find out what a million strangers think, by asking a few scattered individuals among! that number; sampling them, they call it.

Just how our newspapers, for whom I have the greatest respect, came to foist these samplings of opinion upon the public undir the masquerade of truth, the Lord in His infinite mercy only knows. I don't understand it. But it is my. opinion that if they feel they must publish such stuff, there should be a pure news law that would compel them to print along with it a statement showing how the figures are arrived at; how many people and what people out of how many, were actually interviewed. Then, knowing the mechanics of the thing, if any man wanted to put faith in such figures it is his own business. But this nation has too much at stake today to have its opinions on vital matters colored by alleged facts and figures obtained by absent treatment and remote control.

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The hardest solar plexus punch American business has received within the memory of man, was the appointment of Henry Wallace to the office of Secretary of Commerce and the leadership of RFC and all the huge governmental lending agencies. Just at a time when business, economics, and financc face an unprecedented struggle in the postwar era, comes this appointment. Henry Wallace, who killed the pigs when the world was hungry; 'who plowed under cotton when the world was naked: whose name has come to mean radicalism from one end of this land to the other. Henry Wallace, prophet of the "coming revolution" (which he piously hopes will be bloodless). Henry Wallace, on whose whole past history the word "FAILURE" is indelibly stamped. Henry Wallace, whose ability to add two and two and come within two of getting the correct answer, is seriously doubted by business and finance in general. If Mr. Roosevelt was seeking a way to scare countless employers and investors out of business, he made the perfect choice. Henry is as fit for that job as hell's fit for a powder house. The "mystery man," they call him. The only mystery about Henry is how would he eat if he ever got ofr the government payroll.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Meeting

Judge Harry C. Westover, IJ. S. Collector of Internal Revenue, Los Angeles, was the speaker at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club meeting held at the University Club, Friday noon, January 19. He told many human interest stories, also many of the problems connected with the handling of the $2,500,000 tax returns for his district, and his talk was enjoyed by the large turnout of members and guests.

George Clough introduced the speaker. President Roy Stanton presided at the meeting.

The next meeting will be held Friday noon, February 16.