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-By BENNETT CERF-
A GROUP OF Montreal nature lovers once invited the
great Canadian humorist, Stephen Leacock, to accom
pany them on a predawn bird-watching expedition. "Ladies,"
Mr. Leacock told them i
candidly, "I freely admit
that I am the kind nf . ' '
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man who would have
absolutely no interest in
an oriole building a nest
unless it built it in my
hat in the check room at
my club."
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How dry can it become
in the Western stretches of
TexuT Well, one old coot
from those parts member
of his local chamber of
commerce, too admits,
"We once went so lone
without even a smidgen of rain, and water got so scarce that
when one of the kids absolutely had to have a drink, I had to
pull up the well and run it through the wringer."
"Cyril," said a teacher one bright morning, "do you feel that
there is one thing you can do better than anybody else in the
world?" "There is," said Cyril firmly after the briefest hesita
tion. "Read my own handwriting."
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The other day this writer
"had lunch with a couple of
. fellow conservatives, and in
the course of the meal the
conversation came around to
the subject of democracy
both democracy as a political
system and democracy as a
way of lite.
We batted it back and forth
. for quite some time, discours-
Ing wisely upon democracy's
.merits and its pitfalls, and
finally one of the crew was
reminded of this rather cyn
ical quotation:
"Democracy can survive
-only until the public discovers
-that it can VOTE THINGS
, FOR ITSELF OUT OF THE
-PUBLIC TREASURY."
WE AGREED that it was a
good smart crack, and
this question then arose:
... Who said it?
None of us knew.
We became so interested
. that after lunch we hunted up
a copy of Bartlett's indispen
sable Familiar Quotations.
We discovered that Bartlctt
Js silent on the subject.
-TN THE course of our re
. A searches, however, we
-learned quite a lot about what
the great thinkers of the
.world have thought and said
-about democracy.
There is Plato, for example.
;who lived and taught more
than 2,000 years ago. In his
The Republic, in which he de-
. scribes the workings of an
imaginary ideal state, he says:
"Democracy is a charming
.form of government, full of
variety and disorder, and dis-
.pensing a sort of equality to
equals and unequals alike.
One can't help wondering if
Plato had his tongue in his
.cheek when he said that.
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You see
Our time wasn't wasted.
The re-reading of Aristotle's
statement made more than
20 centuries ago that "the
addition of the middle class
turns the scale and prevents
either of the EXTREMES
from becoming dominant" is
alone worth all the time we
spent trying to find out who
said: "Democracy can survive
only until the public discovers
that it can vote things for it
self FROM THE PUBLIC
TREASURY."
That is a good comment. I
can't escape the feeling that
if Plato and Aristotle could
come back to this work in
which Democracy is a big is
sue and a big problem they
would agree with it.
IN CONCLUSION:
't Over the years, I have
discovered that when I want
to find out something that I
want to know and can't find
in the books al I have to do
is to ask the readers of this
newspaper about it. SOME
BODY always knows.
So, here goes. Who said that
democracy can survive only
until the public finds out that
it can vote things for itself out
of the public treasury?
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aHEN there is Aristotle, will
was a pupil of Plato, ant
"who became the teacher of
Alexander the Great, the char
acter who conquered the
known world and then, it is
alleged, sighed disconsolately
because there were no more
worlds to conquer. Of democ
racy, Aristotle said in his
Politics:
"If liberty and equality, as
Is thought by some, are chiefly
to be found in democracy,
they will be best attained
when ALL PERSONS ALIKE
share in the government to
the utmost."
He then went on to say:
"The best political commun
'Hy is formed by citizens of
the middle class. Those states
are like to be best governed
in which the middle class is
large, and LARGER, if pos
sible, . than both the other
classes, or at any rate larger
than either singly; for the ad-
dition of the middle class
turns the scale and prevents
either of the extremes from
becoming dominant."
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