The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-10
LOOKING FOR An HONEST MAN.
A Chicago Woman Has Taken Up
Diogenes' Search.

Chicago TriDune)
With 81 ,0G0 in lieu of a lantern Mrs.
Nancy b. Irving, d book publisher, has
started out to emulate Diosenes in his
search for an honest man. Mrs. irving
is not a DeSSimiSt VINO think there are
no honest men in the world, according
to the common acceptance OF the term
but she is publishing d book which
shows the impOssibi1ty of livinS a
strictly honest business or professional
life under the present conditions Of So
ciety. To prove the point Mrs. Irving
offers to deposit $1,000 in u Chicago
bank, which VIII be paid to the dTst
business or professional man who can
Conclusively prove that ne has carried
on his work Tor a month without lE30S.
The conditions are simple. Mrs. lrv-
ing will name two men, the man VINO
thinks ne holds title to the $1,000 may
name two, and a hftn VIII be named
by these four. They viii act as judges
upon the business record of the claim
ant, trusting him to tell his own story
ana give all the evidence.
The book which Mrs. irving VIII issue
on June Is is entitled Who Lies E'
and embodies the idea that society mas
reached a stage OF conpieXity where
every man is Obliged to pay the part
of q. respectable llar ana thief TO sue
coed ID business. The business man
lies to his competitors and patrons and
steals from his employees or from So
ciety at large
I do it myself said Mrs. Irving,
because to live at the present time /
am obliged to take advantage of So
ciety as il exists, I hope for other
conditions of society. That is why /
publish this book
The story OF the book briefly is this;
Eight men who were former college
chums are assembled at an annivcr-
sary dinner when the story begins 4
ninth mem Der OF the brotherhood sud
n l-r ont e4Fac na % ar
abroad for m~ny years and was rot
expected. His eight friends were in the
act of drinking his health, and one Of
the speakers had toasted him IN these
words:
THE Joseph of sons and brothers,
the Castor OF friends, the BaEard Of
purity and the ST George Of the cp-
/ pressed"
Lies. all lies" is his dramatic ex-
ClamatiOn.
A discussion is started. and it results
| in a wager the eight men with
the ninth, whose name is. Rust. Rust
/ agrees to forfeit q, 0O0 10 any one Of
the other men who can live his pro
4 fessional and social life for one week
without lying. The eight men repre-
( sent various professions and 0cCUpa-
/ tiOns. and the story follows them
! through their endeaVOrs to be perfect
/ ly honest on all occasions. There are
I plenty Of opportunities for humorous
tive. One of the men, a university
3 professor, goes before a WOman's club
with the determination to see that
/ effect plain. unvarnished statement
/ of the truth win have. The result is SO
! disastrous that he does not recover in
time to resume the race.
! The editor was in the worst way Of
( ali of them. He attempted 10 print
! nothing but the truth in his paper. Ghe
I subscription list began to fan so rap-
~ F-e
l Tended that he relinquished al ella in
to the $1,000 and accepted society as b
/ found it. The others had their various
experiences. Humorous and tragic.
Mrs. Irving strives to show that the
l book is not merely the work of IN i'm
I aeinative brain and VIII endeavor tC
Chicago. Emil Blum and SigmUnc
Alexander are the joint authors Of tn
/ book and they are willing TO have Il
lated in the book are true pictures
they say, of conditions as they have
studied them.
AS soon as the book is issued Mrs
Irving win deposit the S1G00 in ban1
and Will make a further statement OF
the conditions governing the cont est.
Mrs. Nancy 3. Irving as a pub ishel
occupies an Office at 20 Dearborn street
She lives in an apartment at 284 Rusl
street. but viii move this month to thu
Ghetto, where she goes t. live becaus
OF her democratic principles and he
idea that life is not complete withou
an acquaintance with7al kinds of PEG