THE WESTERN DESERT

The Yale and Williams prohibition polls were recently censured in the Senate by Horace Taft, brother of the late Chief Justice, on the grounds that they represented only the opinions of the notoriously wet colleges of the northeast. He expressed the hope that the great dry colleges of the country would be heard from, in order that the public might have an opportunity to balance the sentiments of students from the more arid regions of the south and west against the wet east.

Mr. Taft, and others interested in collegiate views on prohibition will be answered. The nation-wide poll on prohibition now being conducted in colleges of the country includes representative institutions in the middle west and the far south. Michigan and Illinois, for example are canvassing their students on the liquor question. Tulane University in Louisiana will hold a straw vote, and it may be assumed that the general results of the poll will give an accurate and fair summary of the student view of prohibition. No cry of sectional bias can be raised when the final results are tabulated. The present college poll is sufficiently broad in scope to form a complete index of collegiate opinion on a subject which is of the utmost interest to students.