Biddies Back Roosevelt in His Upset Victory Over Alf Landon in New Poll

The butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker joined whole heartedly with the barber, the secondhand man, the House waitresses and biddies in the latest CRIMSON presidential poll. Roosevelt led Landon by 321 to 268 and was ahead throughout, but it was not until the last vote was counted that third place was decided. The result was that Colonel Charles R. Apted '09 ran hand in hand with Communist Browder and Union Lemke, each garnering 13 votes.

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As signatures were not compulsory, no cut and dried figures are available for comparison, but a rough estimate showed that the barbers, the largest single trade in the Square, were as divided about, political candidates as they are about long and short haircuts--they just couldn't make up their minds.

The long-suffering biddies awaited "Der Tag" with every expectancy of a new life. F. D. R. was the man "who had opened the banks . . . ended the depression . . . restored wages." In short, the "man of the peepul." On the other hand, the waitresses almost unanimously were for Alf, feeling that he "would end the depression . . . restore wages . . . lower the cost of living." While the Kansan polled almost 98% of the waitresses vote, still many other menu handlers shly admitted a preference for the virile tactics of "Break It Up" Apted, head of the Yard Police.

As far as could be ascertained, this was Apted's first venture into the political arena. Although political observers commented favorably on the fact that he managed to run even with Lemke and Browder, without much national organization, still his intimate advisors are known to have prepared him for the worst on the morning of November 4.

Wondering what the general feeling was about the Democratic procession through the Square on Wednesday, the Inquiring Reporter stopped a well known local character. "Well," said this man, who did not want his name revealed, "I was a little bothered by the hissings and booings. They may have been for Curley, but at any rate it was a poor idea to have the Governor of Massachusetts riding in the same car with the First Executive and his wife."