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Show Let's Explore Your Mind i A Dangerous Propaganda Device Is the Half True, Half False Statement By Albert Edward Wiggam, D. S. ' Amw U QiMMtioa N. 1 1. Thtr la a lot to It. Woman hu alwayi had to uu subtlt wll to land har man that la, until rt-cantly. rt-cantly. Tha man'a advance hav had to ba purpoaaly obvious, al though ha did not know aha waa drawlnf them out on by ona by har pretanaea of flight, unwilling naa and avan antagonlam. Thla la why It la about SO per cent true that "courUhip Is a man pursuing a woman until sh catches him." Answer t Question No. t 2. Th half and half statement, by. all means. This Is tha favorite method of propaganda. For example, ex-ample, one party, In reporting a political meeting, aaya a "huge crowd" was present, th other a "moderate sized crowd." Probably both are half truths. OI course, somebody was present. Had either aid said no one waa there It would hav been eaay to detect th II. A party candidate claima loudly he la for "the plain people," which la hla way of saying the plain people are all good and th fancy people all bad. Both are half truths. On party la working for "aocial Jus- tice the other for "the good of humanity." Both are doing thla to some extent, but most of the can- I didatea want office and power. So It goes. Th Institute of propaganda propa-ganda analysis of New York is doing do-ing great work In teaching people how to detect these half truths, most of which are worse than outright out-right lies. Answer to Question No. t 3. Mighty little. I think It not only a waste of time but an actual loss. Not on person out of 500 in th United States ever has any us for a foreign language and If he doea he can then learn It In short order because he has to. But surveys sur-veys have ahown that th average college graduate who has had two years of some foreign languege can rarely read It as well as a fifth grade child reads English. Protected 1940 by John F. Dille Co. |