Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-11-12

Templeton Jones, plain citizen, toda,
Issued the following statement:
Before election, I announced thai
the way It went determined whether Of
not I would ever again discuss politics
"I am happy to state that I am nov
free to talk politics forever, If want
to, but I am not sure that I viii evei
want to again.
What is the use?
1.-THE average man has little to gain
and something to lose, by shooting of
his mouth, especially to any one and
every one he meets.
MANY men, many mindS-that Is an
old saying, and an essentially true one
ST found out during the past cam
paign that the best way to talk politics
If one is not q stump speaker, is &c
talk it strictly among friends.
"You must choose only such listeners
as respect the integrity of your mind
and whose integrity you respect in turn
$50 discussed, politics may be q
wholesome recreation.
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"when the issues of campaign are
banded about by two acquaintance
merely, men who actually do not know
each other, and often do not care for
each other, the sport degenerates, as
many person found out.
81 discovered that there are, after
all, just two great classes OF minds In
this world. They comprise those men
who seek after the truth, whether 1t
suits them or not, and those who merely
wish to talk up to their own wishes
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1.-The second method commonly Is
called propaganda, probably as good a
thing to call 1t as any. 1t presupposes
an objective, and therefore necessitates
a plan of action. This plan of action
involves the use, in extreme cases. OF
facts known to be favorable only, and
the suppression, in one way or another
of facts known to be or thought to be
favorable to the opposition.
How much happier, as regards his
mental integrity, and his respect for
himself, Is the fate Of the man who
adopts the other methodi
Here his only concern Is to find out
facts, and then interpret them in the
light OF the truth. He does not know
what the truth Is, any more than any
one else, but the thing that distingu-
ishes him is that he wants to find 1t
out.
"The other type is not interested in
the truth. Such o man bankers after
material to prove his case, whatever II
may be: he accepts all material In that
way only, and II it seems to him APP
prouriate he uses It; If 1t Is not what
he wants, he discards 1t.
I'm proportion to his intensity along
his chosen course, he actually IS not
able to see the other fellows facts.
This is the strangest thing about MIN.
Often enough he does not deliberately
lie to himself, but merely manages 70
see everything as he wants to see II.
1.-THE agility of such q mind leaves
the moor truthreeker miles in the rear.
The latter has no such easy method OF
disposing of unwanted facts and fancies.
he. too. has his own ideas, but he gives
the other fellow credit for having some
brains, too. -,
THE other never gives any one credit
for. anything. At least, II he does, ne
never lets ON. It was this attitude, on
the part Of some persons on the slde
lines In the last campaign, which got
under the skin Of the truthseeker
more than anything else.
"It was this attitude which leo 70
the use Of incorporate language and
the making Of statements which the one
who made them knew at the time were
not true, but merely were made IN an
attempt to draw smile or gain point
In that shallow way such points COM
monty are gained in impromptu DEBATE