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235 So. Alameda St. Los Angeles Mlchigan 1854

( mv son, these maxims make a rule, at And tumP them aYe taglther, ' : : ': - The rigid righteous is a fool, The rigid wise anither.-Robert Burns.

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Blast from the political furnace already remiirds us that it's going to be hard to tend to business this year with the "rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air" from the political cauldrons. There come td my mind the words of the poet Coleridge: rf*tl

Late yestereen I saw the nenr FtQolrr ^.,:' With the old moon in her arms, And I fear, I fear, my master dear, We shall have deadly storms.

They won't BE deadly; they'll just souhd ttrat way! There is nothing on the top side of this long-'5rlg6rirf$ 6arth that sounds quite so frightening as a bell-mouthed political blunderbuss, stuffed to the gills with intellectual bilgewater, and loaded to scatter. We all, understand that political oratory is not to be taken seriously, and, since we have ten months of it ahead of us, we might as well start preparing our systems to stand it. I ***

In the medical profession they speak of a man "establishing a tolerance" for a certain drug, meaning, feeding him a little at a time until his constitution becomes inured to it. That's what we innocent bystanders have got to do with regard to political outpourings this year. It's going to be much worse than the average presidential election year. Much worse. So it is important that we gradually prepare our systems to recieve it.

Yes, friends, from now on the air and the public prints will bristle with double-leaded folderol exploding like bombshells throughout this land. You may confidently expect to see the bucket of exaggeration drained to the very dregs. Overstatement and denunciation will be the pastime of our idle moments, and diatribe and invective will become the serious business of our lives. There will be plenty of denouncing and denying, belittling and belying. There will be claims and counterclaims, charges and countercharges.

We will hear much of "inalienable rights," "the birthright of the father!;" 'pditisan rancor," "the great white light of truthr" ttserbonian bogsr" t'craven cowardice"' "punitive thunderbolts,t' t'baneful demagogues," "paeans of praise," "panaceas for poverty," "pitiless despoliation," "stale platitudes," "resounding vacuums," ttwisdom infallible," "truth incontrovertible," "supernil gall," "subsidized stalking-horses," "ghastly paradoxes," "predatory interests," "intrenched grebd," "ihe inextinguishable torch of libertS" and a thousand other well-worn platitudes that have been the boneg upon wiich politicians have gnawed since the mind of man runneth not to the contrary.

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This,is-merely warning you what to expect. Don't let the violence of the confict fool or worry you. It will be just the.same old political music that America has come to know so rpell. r And the day after election it will all be like the ' pains of Chiidbirth-forgotten; forgotten alike the threats and the promises. ***

We will hear much about "liberals" and "conservatives." A "liberal," you understand, is a man who thinks as he pleases and then throws dead cats at anyone else who desires to do the same; and a "conservative" is a fellow who doesn't approve of ever5rthing a "liberal" does.

And then, of course, a;" ;"" the unconscious humorist who wished Henry Ford a PROSPEROUS New Year. **rl.

To an old friend, Dan Orr, goes the prize for bit of human philosophy we've heard in a long[4fme. He tells of an old Mexican sitting lazy and, relaxed in the sun outside his "dobe" hut, and saying: "God is good. He makes the night for sleep, and the day for rest."

Something-for-nothing,*"J""i.rr, cash-for-nothing, is like dope; it makes the recipient an addict. Deliberately feed a man dope for years, then deny it to him, and see what happens ! Give a man cash-for-nothing for years, then sugtgest taking it away, and see what happens ! You can see it happening right now with Government appropriations and the budget. Take the farmers as an example. Nearly

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