Roosevelt Standard | 1948-08-05 | Page 10 | Let Issues Die

Let Issues Die In the midst of the political campaign that now attracts the attention of practically every American citizen, it is just as well to stop long enough to reflect re-flect uport the fact that most Americans are pretty good people. peo-ple. In the heat of partisan combat and in the effort to win elections, it is human nature for people at times, to say things that reflect I heat rather than light. Rabid partisanship is apt to produce biased comment which, in most cases, reflect more upon the maker ma-ker than upon the target. In! urging Americans to maintain main-tain their mental equilibrium, despite the efforts of paid professionals pro-fessionals and political propagandists, propa-gandists, we suggest that issues which seem so vital, in the heat of a campaign, fade into relative rela-tive insignificance with the passing pass-ing of the years.