Editor, Gazette-Journal: With the mid-terms on our horizon, it seems appropriate to remind ourselves what E.B. White, noted children’s author and essayist, had to say about the Meaning of Democracy. “July 3, 1943: “We received a letter from the writer’s War Board the other day, asking for a statement on the meaning of democracy. It presumably is our duty to comply with such a request and it is certainly our pleasure. “Surely the board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t in don’t shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles; it is the dent in the high hat. “Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half of the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. “Democracy is a letter to the editor. Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth. It is an idea which hasn...