Milford chronicle., 1928-08-31
POLITICAL ARGUMENT

POLITICAL ARGUMENT
Argument seems to have sOmewha
gone out of fashion, at least as re
spects politics. Not so often nov
do we see two people getting tror
oughly mad because they hold diff
fering opinions. Or perhaps theil
arguing is more confined to Ques
tions about sports or money affairs
They are so excited about these
questions that they do not take po.
litical differences as seriously as
formerly.
Still we have some noted argufl-
ers left, and it is, quite a battle
when they get together. Some OF
them can't talk five minutes without
getting excited, and red in the face
and raising their voices, and ex-
pressing contempt for the opinions
of their antagonists. When they
get into that mood, they make lot
of statements that they can't back
up, and which are absurd on the
face of it. If such people knew how
wildly they talk, they would keep
their mouths shut.
It is quite an art to talk intelli-
gently on politics, and convince
people of the merits Of your ideas.
The people who have that faculty,
are a force in the community, and
many of them as the result of that
trait, get into politics, and some of
them go high as the result Of their
persuasiveness.
We need more good arguifers, to
get people more interested in politi-
cal issues. There has been a great
deal of waste and inefficiency in
government because people were
not paying attention to politics. To
get them interested enough so that
they will vote and vote intelligently,
the issues of such campaign as
the present one should be discussed
whenever people get together.
If people want to convert their
friends to their points of view, they
will have to avoid sweeping state
ments. They must read a lot, know
what is going on, be prepared to
quote facts and quote them right,
and their view Of peoples conduct
and the results of legislation must
be intelligent and tolerant.
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UNREST IN THE COUNTRY
Much has been said during recent
years, about the big drift of people
from the country towns into cities.
It is an unfortunate thing if
great number of young people who
were brought up in good country
towns are dissatisfied with their
surroundings and want to quit.
Here in Delaware we want to
see those country towns prosperous,
and see them offering a good chance
to young people to make good, and
we want conditions such that peo-
pie can live happy and rewarding
lives there.
A good country town gives people
pleasures and satisfactions that are
cut off in large cities. 1t is some
thing to live in or near the open
country, where you can enjoy coun-
try sports, where if you want to
drive your automobile, the roads are
not too jammed with traffic.
Two lines of action are needed to |
make the country towns of Della |
ware still more desirable places to
live in. First, they need a sounder
basis of business prosperity, based
on agriculture, which needs to be
handled with as much business sys-
tenn as a retail store, and with as
much technical correctness as fac
tory. Some will say that is impos-
sible. Yet if people will study agri-
culture as they have to study any
line to make good, they can ap-
Droach that ideal, and improve
heir own chances.
Second, our country towns need
/ fairly complete equipment Of ad-
1antages. That means good schools,
vide awake churches and business
pleasant social life,
| reasonable amount of entertain
nent. These things can all be ac-
if people have energy
md activity. ,
SeS
MOST normal people have per-
DDS when they want to camp out
he life Of settled homes seems
lresome to them. Nothing makes a
oy happier than to give him tent.
{ he can't camp in some good SWIM
ling and fishing place, he will put ,
out in the back yard, and be in
nitely happier sleeping on a hard s
mt bed than he is on his springs +
the house. I
Our homes Of today, which would a
i've seemed so luxurious to our t
,andparents, make us too soft. r
eople's experience is not complete S
lless they have tried camping out
some plain resort where they n
we to do their own work and live s.
a somewhat primitive way. The n
en- air and vigorous work make it el
invigorating experience for many p