PROHIBITION

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1932, Page 8

PROHIBITION

AMERICAN NEWSPAPER POLL

LAWYERS HEAD THE LIST FOR

J.UIIPEAL.

NEW YORK May 23

Tne order of “wetness”

among the

meuiOui's 01 tour professions is m

yers nrst, physicians second, Daiijicfo third, ana tne cieigy lourtii a,.a driest, accoraing to tne “lucerary digest,” which lists tile results or ns maimed lou 011 Prohibition, taimn m

conjunction wiui its naimu-mue po.i

the poll of tne “Digest's'’ own suosenoors showed a percentage of 11.33 in favour of repeal of the Eighteenm

•amendment, a, figure similar 10 tne results thus tar 111 the national poll. Aitnougn tlie clergy leniam the driest of the four proieuSions, tne smlt a«ay from Prohibition has affected that i lass somewhat. The poi. shows that only 04.80 per cent, favour continuance of the Eighteenth Amendment, as compare with 5. .o.J per cent, m 1930. Of the 43,608 ballots received in the clergy pod, 23,924 were for continuance of the Eighteenth Amendment and 19,084 tor lep.al. By States, the clergy voted dry in thirty, wet in sixteen, and in two States the vote was exactly even. J.ll North Carolina., they were dry by ..even to one.

The lawyers are voting three to one for repeal, the figures show. In no State is there a majortity of the legal profession registered in favour or continuance of Prohibition.

Kansas, the driest State, registe.s 43.62 for continuance, and Nevada gives repeal a 20 to I majority.

Of 52,501 ballots received from lawyers the vole wa.s 39,825 or 75.77 per cent., for repeal, and 12,736 or 24.23 per cent., for enforcement. In 1930 the percentage of lawyers voting for emorcemeut was 28.85.

Physicians returned a total of 00,0:9 ballots, divided as follows: 45,459, or 75.48 per cent., for repeal, and 14,770 or 24.52 per cent., for continuance, just a fraction lower than the lawyers. In 1930 the pliysici ns voted 30.34 per cent dry. Jankers, who recorded their opinions numbered 77,8R0, and of these 51,252, or 05.83 per cent favoured, repeal of tlio Eighteenth Amendment, and 20,008, or 34.17 per cent., favoured Pr hibition. 111 1930 tile percentage of bankers voting dry was 41.50. In New York State, aim ng bankers, the vote was 5829 wet and 1522 drv; among clergymen 10-10 wet and 12'3 dry; among lawyers 0445 wet and 952 dry; and among physic?,ns 6559

wet and 1017 dry. Returns received from 473,700 “Di-

gest”/ scribers throughput the country showed the sentiment to lie 337,947 for repeal and 135,813 for continuance.