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Show "Politics" Unjustly Blamed A recent survey of the postwar post-war plans of servicemen, made by Fortune Magazine, reveals that an overwhelming majority listed "politics" as their pet aversion. aver-sion. This has amazed some Americans Ameri-cans who think that the negative attitude expressed by the Army Air Force, selected for sutdy, is a sign of danger. We don not agree with the worried experts. "Politics" is a word with a wide variety of meaning and what one citizen condemns as "politics," is very often what other citizens desire. The aversion to "politics" is easily understandable. The word is a whipping-post for every fault and is used casually and loosely to explain whatever goes wrong. Like all carelessly-used words, is serves to give expression to emotional discontent. An idea of what we have in mind is what follows every election elec-tion and almost every appointment appoint-ment where the office is sought by a group of people. The losers, without exception, blame their failure on "politics" and join in the condemnation without any very clear concept of what they condemn. The same word is used to ex-palin ex-palin the defeat of any legislative legisla-tive proposal, favored by the disgruntled dis-gruntled speaker. Proponents of a measure which happens to be defeated glibly explain what happened by denouncing "politics." "poli-tics." Obviously, the opponents of a measure which passes lay the disaster to the same factor. |