The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-29
VENEER NOT DEEP
Scratch the Surface and You'll Find Something Else You
Weren't Expecting to See.-If Christianity Does
Not Spell Courtesy, 1t Isn't Worth Much

And has found, almost without ex-
| ception, that it's the first rate people
who have the first rate manners
The big official viii always be the
polite one.
| The petty one the rude.
| And she freely admits that she rare
| ~ ran across a worse set than the
representatives from the headquarters
of the State Sunday School Association
in Indianapolis who have been here
within the past few days.
The representatives of both the city
papers. who endeavored in every way
possible to get the news and get il
with dispatch, met with the utmost
rudeness and discourtesy from these
people.
Both papers had special representa-
| lives at the convention and were pre-
Jared and did give much space to this
| Interesting and important affair
But they got the news under Difficult
| ties
These two or three individuals
would have been much aggrieved if the
city press had given them short shrift
RELOCATED them to the inside pages
and cut them down to the celebrated
stickful
And yet they put on these same
God Almighty Airs" when approach.
ed for the information that they ex,
Fect to see played up in the papers.
The writer once reported an assem-
blage of saloon-keepers and has nc
| no in oh t1
the superior manners of the latter.
The trouble is that people take
themselves too seriously.
The saloon-keeper, the politician, the
Sunday school general secretary and
Eva Tanguay look exactly alike to the
reporter. They are all grist for the
newspaper mill. The latter is the great
avenue and medium of communication
with the public. 1t tries. in the best
way possible to give all the news to al
the people.
And it tries to get it right"
1t knows that the Sunday school is
enc of the greatest religious and socia
institutions of the world. When the
state convention meets in it's town il
details it's reporters to get all the
news concerning the latter and give Il
10 the people Of the community so the
latter may be fully informed of the
vastness of the organizations opera
tons.
And certainly it expects some reel
rrocity.
When Christian people, so-called
realize that if they want to save soul!
they will have to have better manner.
maybe a step toward the millennium
will be taken.
You are. by implication, if you pose
as a Christian, better than the poo
misguided devil on the outside. If yol
want to impress him with the advan
tages of being within the sacred enclo
sure you must give him some outward
and visible evidence of it.
II Christianity doesn't mean cour
tesy consideration, and desire to ge
at the point of view of the other fellow
It doesn't mean anything at all.
All the conventions in the worlC
aren't going to convince that other fel
low.
All the praying and sermonizing ant
saying behold what a good man am L
went make him want to help the gooC
work along.
Christians say and think they're bet
ter than other people.
Then let them prove it.
And one of the best ways will be t
show the people that are trying t.
help them along the courteous consid
: hot iS from
erybody else.
This does not apply to the local man