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Fully aware of how stupid this habit of torturing one's self may seem, some of us still listened to Mr. Truman’s monday speech in Milwaukee. We were angry very soon after he began, and aS he progressed we sat there like idiots apd let his ratings give our tempers a thorough work-out. His language was inane; his Missouritwang was more offensive than usual; his presentation of facts was insulting to what little intelligence most of us had; he had nothing to say and he took a long time saying it.
Why didn't wTe turn the radio off? Don’t ask; the answer is in that explanation of that peculiar turn of human nature that makes us enjoy self-torture.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
(The following opinions have been collected at random from an editorial-collection house. These bits appeared in newspapers and magazines throughout the nation and were assembled by an editorial service. They are supposed to answer a request for news of the political scene as it stands for the opening guns.)
1. The campaign to date has demonstrated to many people of the class of Stevenson and the seeming lack of class of Eisenhower. The more the former speaks the more the public believes that this is the long-awaited “Voice of America;” the more the General speaks the less his glamour appeals.
2. The difference in their ages is apparent. The boyish Ike went
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