COLLEGE PEACE POLL

As this is being written, Dartmouth undergraduates are receiving through the mail the ACE -Literary Digest peace poll ballots. Recently organized with the advisory assistance of the Literary Digest, the Association of College Editors is carrying through their first significant undertaking a poll of every student in 150 schools to determine undergraduate opinion on questions concerning defensive and offensive war, preparedness, government control of munitions, conscription of national resources in time of war, and the entrance of the United States into the League of Nations. The College editors who organized the ACE have taken a serious interest in the poll, and have given considerable editorial space to the questions involved.

In view of the recent growth and extended activities of the numerous peace movements in this country, and especially insofar as much of this peace-awakening effort has been concentrated upon the college and university undergraduates of the nation, the ACE poll should be highly significant. The significance will be found, however, not so much in the results of the different questions as it will in the number (percentage) of the ballots filled out and returned. Campus "intellectuals" will give serious attention to their ballots, as will also other thinking undergraduates who are trying to keep a prospectus upon contemporary trends. Both of these groups will, with few exceptions, vote in favor of defensive warfare, against offensive wars, against "an army and navy second to none, for government control of munitions and the conscriptions of national resources in time of war, and in favor of joining the League. It will be in the percentages of ballots returned that the value of the poll will be found, for, from these, conclusions can be drawn measuring the extent of the peace propaganda influence upon undergraduates, and the diminishing effect upon the long-prevailing apathy existent toward serious political and economic problems.