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'Strides Ahead'
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The Pulse of Democracy, by George Gallup and Saul F. Ra New York: Simon & Schus- ter,
November 9, 1940,
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serving a wider mandate than that of somo limited pressure group. Such is the defence of an institution that may not be. the pulse of democracy, but is at least one of its barometers.
R. H. S.
Readers' Guide
COVERNMENT by predomin- foresee all, anticipate all, and ant public opinion might prepare for all in the way of pos- well be taken as the ideal of aible miscalculations. So far, democracy, and is, in "The Pulse the American Institute has done of Democracy," subtitled "The extremely well. Public Opinion Poll and How It One of the fond illusions re-. Works,"
gretfully yielded after reading GENERAL Yet the determination of this book is the citation of
Ego 4: James Agate. Harrap, public opinion remains among Britain's famous Peace Ballot of 188. Another Instalment of the least tangible of sciences, 1934-36 as irrefutable evidence Mr. Agate's autobiography. despite remarkable advances of that the British people favoured
with
the 3.
recent years in the technique of collective security. The 11,589,- Finland, the first total war: sampling. Dr. Gallup's name is 165 ballots gathered did show a John Langdon-Davies. widely associated successful American Institute of Public Opinion, which he found-
ed in 1983. Dr. Rao is one of hía collaborators in the Institute as well as in this book.
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"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU'D FIXED ITS HOW YOU CAN JUST PICK UP ALL THAT SILVER AND SORT IT... ETC.
Figures play strange pranks. The tailor discovered this when ho prepared a stock of ready- made suits for men of average height in a community that turned out to have two distinct types-one very tall and the other very short. Within each
of these groups there was an
THE GALLUP
· POLL:
AND HOW IT
WORKS
Rout- ledge. 12s. 6d. Account of the a heroic reorganization of" people in defence of their liber- ty, by a good reporter.
Hearts and
pomegranates: Dame Katharine Furse. Davies.. 15s. Autobiography of the daughter of J. A. Symonds, wife of Charles Furse, and Director of the W.R.N.S.
A hundred years of the Bri- tish Empire: A. P. Newton. Duckworth. 15s. Up to 1939 and back rather more than the the century of the title.
Our British Empire: Stephen
average, but neither of these predominant support of averages fitted the tailor's suits. League of Nations and vigorous Only a few of his prospective peacemaking, but Drs. Gallup Leacock. Bodley Head. 78. 6d. and Rae find that the strata A graphic plcture of the British dients needed his sizes.
A similar calamity on a larger reached would be expected to Empire to-day, its extent, re-
lower
or-
Gd.
take this stand.
sources, government and scale befell the once. famous Literary Digest poll in 1936, Aa The ballot, in other words, ganisation.. a poll of those Scattering Drs. Gallup and Rae point out, tended to be
branches: Tel- the Digest made the mistake of already on the side of collective butes to the memory of W. B.
Edited sampling more upper income security, without giving propor- Yeats:
by Stephen classes than
income tionate weight to other forces in Gwynn. Macmillan. 8. classes. The former tipped the public opinion, including the Aspects of the post treated by
ap- various friends. Digest figures in favour of Mr. powerful current toward
tho dictators. Landon, but the latter elected peasement of Mr. Roosevelt by history-making That current later asserted itself, FICTION returns at the polls.
if not from the people, at least West to north: Compton Surprisingly, the Digest, had from influential leaders right Mackenzie. Chatto & Windus. displayed great accuracy up to down to a few months ago,
9s, 6d,
that time. Its fall came with The authors defend their polls Mr. Lucton's Freedom: Fran- greater shock because of heights against a charge of being anti- cis Brett Young. Heinemann, it had attained. The reason is democratic. Honestly adminis. 98. Gd.
that polls can hit close to the tered, a poll comes closer and Moment in Peking: Lin Yu- mark even with faulty mechan- closer to reflecting public think- tang. Heinemann. 15s. A long, isms, provided some unforeseen ing on current topics. If some satisfying epic of. China from factor is not at work.
Icgislators allow this fact to in the days of the Dowager Em- The challenge daily before Dr. fluence them in climbing on the press Tzu Hsi to the war with Gallup and his co-workers is to band wagon, at least they are Japan.
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