Doubtful

We received this week a letter from the Harvard Daily CRIMSON, a very worthy contemporary, requesting The Daily Student to join a number of other college dailies in conducting a national campus poll on the merits of prohibition and the possibilities of its repeal.

Such expression by college students at large might mean several things. The results would depend on the fairness of those conducting the poll. Would they be partial to the issue? What could the results of such a poll accomplish? We frankly confess we don't know.

On the other hand, various and sundry national problems have engaged student thought and opinion from time to time. These opinions have been stimulating to both the college students and those whose prime duty it is to wrestle with those problems in an effort to arrive at a solution.

The present undergraduate body throughout the United States will in a few short years be a large factor in the administration of civic and governmental undertakings. It is therefore highly important that they have some understanding of such problems as early as possible.

A poll of campus sentiment toward prohibition conducted properly may do no good, but at its worst can do no harm. The Daily Student, however, will not attempt a poll on this campus unless the editors are assured that their fellow students desire to express an opinion on this great problem. --Indiana Daily Student.