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Show WHO IS THE TIRED OLD MAN? Out of that Windy City, Chicago, during the past two national political conventions, much has been said about "The Tired Old Man." , While Americans are universally known as gulttons for humor, it is likely that their appetites might be more completely satisfied if they were let in on just who the "Tired Old 'ManV was. It could be that" this venerable, worn-out old gent is Mr. Average American for certainly both national political parties did much to exasperate the general run of men and women who are RIGHT NOW more interested in action than in 1887 oratory. The specialists who plan radio programs will have to find some new classification for many of the speeches and some of the proceedures that were part of both political conventions. , For some unexplained reason, politicians seem to assume that they represent millions of knitwits who aren't shrewd enougt to detect grandstand oratorical exhibitions or distinguish between political logic and machine produced political balogna. No one now living can bring forth a political platform plat-form which was not couched in evasive terminology. Even this agility with words when repeated generation genera-tion after generation gets under the skin of the "Tired Old Man." Party promises have always grown thicker than weeds in the loafer's garden. Both conventions were . , striking demonstrations in human behavior which makes possible some of the blunders that millions of "Tired Old Men" have had to pay a bitter price for. Issues of the present day cannot be settled with balloons at a convention or sporatic parades around a stadium. The "Tired Old Man" is a mature individual and expects his representatives to be likewise. Millions of "Tired Old Men" are decidedly more interested in-terested in postwar planning than they are in the color of the convention secretary's dress. The candidate's necktie is a matter of personal choice but his program for the restoration .of peace and prosperity would revive these millions of "Tired Old Men." - |