Show FEEDING THE BELLI INSTEAD OF THE MIND we copy the following from an advertisement in salt lake tribune of the issue of sunday june 25 over signature of the leyson pearsall company if I 1 were forced to take my choice between listening the gibberish of a monkey broadcasting from the jungle of amazon and the gibberish of a hard boiled dyed in the wool party politician broadcasting from a selected political arena I 1 would take the monkey talk every time knowing it was least sincere and devoid of any propaganda of hate and fur ther dermore her more I 1 would know the monkey was doing the best he with his limited talents while I 1 would fear that the politician was doing the worst he lie could with his greater talents I 1 spent two weeks recently up in the forest A newspaper m was as received dally daily but twice only did I 1 read it and then only the headlines I 1 embraced the philosophy of the ostrich assuming that if I 1 did not read about the world wide chaos that there was no chaos and am frank to say that I 1 thrived on my temporary ignorance of world affairs leaving out of the picture the headlines that tell the world about domestic strife motor disasters murders kidnap pings and racketeering one has left with which to gratify h his is desire for peace of mind but signboards of national turmoil of war ahead national bankruptcy and industrial stagnation also signboards that too often reflect propaganda of hatred for a certain person and propaganda of adoration for the same person according to the party affiliation of the writer mass acclaim is often dangerous but individual acclaim Is far more dangerous when one s fealty to any party takes precedence over his loyalty to the best interests of all of the people whom he represents and for the very good reason that in our country today there are too many passive listeners who ar are easily influenced by political spellbinders and not enouf enough people who think and reason for themselves the headline es of our papers today register a baucus discord that can only be tuned into national harmony by the voter who reads and studies for himself the motives of those who bleat about their own virtues and the sins of others and who also studies the motives of those who try to sway public opinion by feeding the belly instead of the mind that was so good we used it for a caption our national safety today rests with the individuals who vote the straight ticket of old fashioned loyalty to the coll constitution ution and who vote for the men who regard the inspirational wisdom in this document as secondary only to that in the yord nyord of god yes you are indeed your brothers keeper for you arr compelled through taxation to either continue to fed that great horde of unfortunates whose names are regist registered pred nowhere but on the relief rolls of f the nation or vote them out of their bondage of idleness back into the realm of worl happiness and a rebirth of personal liberty what strength is contained in those words gibberish broadcasting propaganda chaos signboards ot national turmoil hatred for or adoration of according to party affiliations but not in terms of lasting statesmanship the danger of mass acclaim baucus discord discord ot labor against its source of labor discord of class against class those who bleat about their own virtues and lastly the vote getting motives of those who sway public opinion by feeding the belly instead of the mind A motive in it richly paying taxation to continue hordes on relief industry can put those hordes at work but industry is the main butt for attack and dare not engage taxation regulation confiscation the entire matter is an essay in brief |