Will He Get It?

The vote on the Bok Peace Award won by Dr. Charles H. Levermore (TIME, Feb. 11) was to have closed on Feb. 4. The date was extended. At the latest reports it was still being extended. Last week's announcement was that 562,022 ballots had been cast in the referendum on the plan, 87.3% being favorable.

Dr. Levermore got $50,000 when his plan was chosen by the Jury of Award. He is to get $50,000 more if there is a "sufficient popular response" in favor of the plan. Will he get it? The continued extension of the balloting period seems to imply that the popular response is not satisfying in its volume. The New York Herald, strong Republican, anti-League organ, exclaimed in its news columns:

"The number of voters who have indorsed the Levermore plan to date-- 490,549--is a feeble total when compared with the 919,799 whose first choice in the 1920 election was Eugene Debs, the Socialist candidate--and Debs was a very bad third."