Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-07-23
CAMPAIGN HEAT

We enjoy the liberty of free
speech in America. That is well,
and as it should be. Our fore
fathers labored diligently and
fought for the preservation of
that individual right. Sometimes
when we hear politicians ranting
from the housetops about the mis-
takes of others, everything is
wrong in the other political party,
we wonder if more action and less
words would not be better. To be
sure there is little enlightenment
in listening to those who lack
judgment and are just talking for
the sake of election.
One of the feature and political
writer's on The Minneapolis Jour-
nal, Vivian Thorp, advises that
if we do not take too seriously
the loud shouting of professional
politicians we may save wear and
tear on our nerves. Personal at
tacks by politicians on one an
other are a menace to the mental
sanity and physical comfort of
the listeners, so this able and in
dependent writer warns against
accepting and swallowing-hook,
line, and sinker- all that is said
by loud politicians. Her column
of few days ago follows:
How to keep ones heart from going
flOoey in our present equatorial eli
mate is going to be an easier problem
to. solve than how to keep ones heaC
from going the same way in the cam
paign torridity which is almost upo;
us.
1t would be as we'll to prepare, fol
personal use, some nice cool neutral
phrases with which to plaster the
blisters that will be suffered from ex.
posture to superheated radio and cam
paign oratOry.
Up to date, the best soother l have
been able to find is the ancient wise.
crack, What is sauce for the goose
is sauce for the gander." In case that
seems bit abstruse, this is the way
it could be effectively used: Whenever
a Republican protagonist bursts into
song about the nefarious practices Of
the Democratic method of campaign.
ing and your soul thrills with horror
at the wicked Democratic wiles, shut
your eyes and say the little piece
about the gander and the goose, anC
the sauce that is good for them both
Thus you will save an awful lot oil
wear and tear on your nerves and you
won't wear out your righteous indig
nation before the end of the campaign
when you may need it.
The reason this is good advice is
that the next day after you have al.
most burst a blood vessel over the
enormities of the Democrats, some in
dignant Dem will take the air anC
with identical words, shatter you
again with blast at the Republican.
for doing the very same thing.
Politicians are keyed to these sud
den climatic changes, but they ort
likely to be fatal to the equilibrium
of the layman. This constant hot an,
cold attack is menace to mental san
ity and physical comfort. Ones emo
tions never have time to jell. It..
like spending ones life stepping from
the frigid interior of a picture theate
onto the 105-plus pavement.
To remember that both the hot ant
the cold; the Denis and Reps; tn,
Lemkes and the Coughlins, all accus,
each other of almost exactly the same
sins, is the best possible restorer o
ones personal political balance.
1t also helps to go in for realism
and face the fact that professional
politicians with apologies to Abou Bel
Adhem, May their tribe decrease
simply pack up their sense of proper