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MI Pia . noworks 1 • PIANO CONSULTATION • SALES • SERVICE • • CONCERT RENTALS • INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN MADE PIANOS Masan & Eandin • Soatuer 541-6334 23225 WOODWARD • FERNDALE $10.00 OFF DtIFORER re: (with ad)" THE AREA'S LARGEST IN STOCK SELECTION WITH GUARANTEED BEST PRICE! GLIDERS ..$168.00 ROCKERS FROM$98.00 `excluding kids and cushions We Ship Anywhere" 3337 Auburn Rd. 21325 Telegraph fies , of Auburn His 853.7440 PRinav Al IAI1ST 9$1 1QQ9 Southfield 948-1060 ith the two party conventions now a matter of media history, there cannot be too much hope for a reduction in the regrettable but unavoidable mudslinging. This is expected in politics, but it does not necessarily eliminate the bright sides striving for positives. We have been introduced to the disputable in judging party platforms. We hope to learn how long the 1992 planks will be remembered. How long have previous par- ty platforms survived polit- ical rhetoric and the millions of words included in the news reports that related to them? While there is the unques- tioned aim of separating re- ligion from politics, the re- ligious term in the idealism urged by a famous authors should not be forgotten. In his challenging Voice of Jerusalem (1921), Israel Zangwill appealed for high standards in public aspira- tions by stating: If the world is not to perish in its blindness, it must revert to the leader- ship of thinkers and men of faith. Politics ... must become religion instead of religion _ at the first real call upon it _ becoming politics. There was another ap- proach on a universalistic scale from Napolean. We have much to learn from the works compiled by Leo Rosten. Here is a Napoleonic comment quoted by Mr. Rosten: My policy is to govern men the way the great majority wants to be governed ... By making myself Catholic I brought the war in Vendee to an end. By becoming a Moslem, I established my- self in Egypt. By acting ultramontane, I won the minds of the Italians. If I governed a nation of Jews, I should restore the temple of Solomon. It is also fascinating to read this quotation from Napoleon Bonaparte includ- ed in Mr. Rosten's book In- finite Riches: Suddenly I found myself victorious, laying down the law, courted by emperors ... What en- thusiasm! What shouting! "Long live the liberator of Italy!" At twenty-five! From that moment, I foresaw what I might be ... I felt the earth flee from beneath me, as if I were being carried to the sky. Specialized reading deal- ing with politics and politi- cians began to be compiled in Arm Arbor more than 60 years ago published under the title Speakers En- cyclopedia of Stories, Quota- tions and Anecdotes when its author, Jacob Braude, was judge of the municipal court of Chicago. Among the popular poetic works perpetuated in the Braude collection is "Counsel for Candidates" by Edgar A. Guest. A jour- nalistic record accompanies the poem. The advice and guidance provided to aspirants to political fame remain impressive. COUNSEL FOR CANDIDATES My boy, if office you would seek Acquire a pleasing way to speak, For if you have a rasping voice You'll never be the people's choice; And should you grate upon the ear You'll finish sadly in the rear, For folks who hark to radios Won't vote for talkers through the nose. Time was but few could hear or see The men who would their favorites be. They read about them in the press; Disputed of them, more or less, And oft mistook for common sense What then was flowery eloquence. So Lincoln, ugly, gaunt and thin, Upon his merits had to win. But things are different today. 'Tis not so much what statesmen say, But how they say it. Do they look Like pictures in a fashion book? Have they the sort of chin or nose which Pleases folks at picture shows? . , I And have they glamor? Will they go On film and disc and radio? Get glamor! Glamor, such as can Attract the moving AO picture fan. At work or at your •- favorite sport Remember you must make a "short!' And if you are not good to see, Al At ballot time you'll beaten be. Not all the wisdom you enjoy Will not outrun a glamor boy. • v. 6.1 Delightful memories ac- • company the reading of the Edgar Guest philosophy. Now the references here to some of the famous names to be remembered as guides to politicians in their quest for public roles help retain high al standards in politics. The sensations reappearing in our time serve to justify the philosophy of such advice. ❑ 411 dl mi•mH NEWS I Swissair Accepts Shekels" Tel Aviv (JTA) — Swissair, ' ' the Swiss airline, is ap- parently convinced that Israel has overcome its infla- tionary problems and has announced that its tickets. now be payable in local cur- • -1 rency. As of Sept. 1, Israelis will be able to purchase Swissair tickets at an exchange rate between dollars and shekels that will be fixed monthly. rather than daily. Swissair tickets are still a quoted formally in dollars. But unlike the previous system, . under which travel agents had to convert the I price into Israeli currency one a daily basis, the prices in shekels will be fixed at the beginning of each month and remain constant for that month, even in the event of currency devaluation. Swissair hopes its example will be followed by otheei airlines, including El Al. The decision was welcom- ed by the Association of Israeli Travel Agencies, which said that the new method would simplify its work and make it easier for customers to plan vacations.