Crimson To Run University Poll on Governorship and Roosevelt Policies

Due to the great interest aroused throughout the University by the three-cornered fight for the governorship of Massachusetts and its relation to the Roosevelt Administration, the CRIMSON will conduct a straw vote to determine whether public opinion at Harvard favors Bacon, Curley, or Goodwin, and whether or not the University continues to support the New Deal.

This will be the first time that a straw vote has been taken at Harvard on state elections, but a similar survey has been held during every presidential campaign in recent years, and in May and June of last year the CRIMSON, in cooperation with the Literary Digest, conducted a poll on the policies of the Administration in Washington.

In the Literary Digest poll Harvard voted 1,911 "yes" on the question "Do you on the whole approve of the policies of the Roosevelt Administration?", while 1,024 men expressed their dissatisfaction with the New Deal.

This fall the Literary Digest has conducted a second and smaller vote to see if the summer's industrial unrest has changed public opinion. According to this follow-up poll, which has not been attempted in any of the colleges, the nation as a whole still supports President Roosevelt, but by a much smaller margin than formerly.

One of the main points sought by the CRIMSON's straw vote, which will take place on Wednesday, will be to see if Harvard's feelings concerning the National Administration have altered with those of the nation at large.

Interest in Elections

At the same time, however, the hot battle now being waged between Gaspar G. Bacon '08, James M. Curley, and Frank W. Goodwin has been carried into the affairs of the University by and committees formed by both Republicans and Democrats. Consequently there is just as much interest in the local political battle as there is the national recovery crusade. Whether or not Democrats will vote a "straight ticket" of Curley and approval of the New Deal is another point that the poll seeks to determine.

Voting will take place all day on Wednesday and will be participated in by both students and members of the Faculty. Ballot boxes will be placed in all House Dining Halls, in the Union, and in Sever and Harvard Halls. In order to make it possible for all of the commuters to vote, a ballot box will be placed in Phillips Brooks House.