Harvard Students Favor Making Prohibition Issue in Campaigns

Ninety per cent of the 1660 Harvard students who voted in the CRIMSON'S prohibition poll yesterday approved the proposal that the two major political parties should adopt a definite prohibition plank in their party platforms at the conventions in Chicago next month. Of that number 626, or about 42 per cent of those in favor of the suggestion, expressed the wish that the party platforms should advocate repeal of the prohibition act.

Modification of the existing laws was favored by 411, while 334 advocated a nation-wide referendum of the Eighteenth Amedment. Only 104, or less than 7 per cent of those voting, were in favor of party platforms promising continuation of the present situation. One-hundred and fifty-four opposed making a political issue of the prohibition question. This stand was taken by many who indicated that they felt that the coming campaign should be fought on more important issues. Fourteen ballots were thrown out.

In the Houses Lowell polled the largest vote. Of the 202 ballots cast there, only 14 opposed making the question a political issue and only 16 favored continuation of the existing situation. Eliot polled the wettest vote when only a little more than 2 per cent of the 163 in favor of putting prohibition in the platforms voted in favor of continuation of the present laws.

Yesterday's poll was held in conjunction with similar ones at eight other eastern colleges; Princeton, Amherst, Bryn Mawr, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley. The action was sponsored by the Daily Princetonian. In the balloting at Princeton on Tuesday, the student body was almost unanimously in favor of making prohibition a party issue, by a vote of 1581 to 23. Total repeal was favored by 785.