Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1917 — Argue but Don't Wrangle. [ARTICLE]

Argue but Don't Wrangle.

Tn ordinary life friction is something to be avoided. Argument that deserves the name is too difficult a thing for dally practice, calling as it does for such, painstaking care in the expressing exactly of one’s ideas to avoid their being misunderstood, for such patience to listen, to wait one’s turn, to keep one’s temper. Dependent upon all these things for its very existence, argument simply cannot be entered upon carelessly without degenerating into mere wrangling. If you have the fatal habit of tinning conversation into argument you are nothing more or less than a wrangler.