The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-04-26

A few days ago some one showed
me an anonymous letter. 1t was a
direct effort to injure fellow-work-
era worker who had striven hard
to make good and has accomplished
it.
Of course the person who received
the anonymous letter is an intelli-
gent one, and it won't make and diff
ference.
Yet in passing there is something
to be said about the writer who fears
to sign his name. He hasn't the
backbone with which he was born.
Of all the towards he is the worst,
and there is no crime on the calen-
dar of whic hhe might not be guilty.
| should like to see law passed
so that the writer of an anonymous
letter, in an effort to hurt, would be
directly sought out and punished ac-
cordingly.
His .offense is great, indeed, for
he tries not to steal the material
thing which you can replace, but he
attempts to rob you of your good
name.
Ask the expert of anonymous let
tiers and he will tell you that in SO
cases out Of hundred the writer of
an anonymous letter has an axe to
grind in which he is directly concern
ed.
The personal equation always is
a big part in the letter that is writ
ten by the holder of a poisoned pen.
l wish it were possible to print a
sign on the writer of anonymous let
tiers, so that everybody might know
him and that he might be pointed
out to the little children as a warn
ing, in the interest of straightfor-
wardness and fair play.
The great trouble of it all is that
the weaker sisters and brothers who
receive these letters do not consign
them to the waste basket and forget
them. They barber them close to
their hearts and allow them to gnaw
at lift itself.
To the sensitive spirit | would say
Take heart. Treat the anonymous
letter as you would a serpent who
comes for no other purpose than to
sting somewhere. Don't let his poison
reach you. Treat him as you would
a snake-cast him off.
| have seen much unnecessary pain
produced just because the person
who receives such a letter fails to
play his part as recipient of it, and
that is to ignort it.
1t is very rare indeed that the
threats made and the efforts to hurt
in sinister letter of this kind ever
have any effect whatsoever if the re-
cipient pays no attention to it.
Animosity, jealousy, covetness--
all these germs are found in the per-
son who writes an anonymous let
ter. When you receive one of these
missives, you can make up
your mind the person who wrote it
has some of the following traits:
He is man who would desert his
wife and children.
He would purloin the penny from
a baby's hand.
She is the woman who would go
into the home of her best friend and
steal her husband.
He is the friend who makes you
,hink what a good fellow you are and |
secretly takes your wife out to din
Ter.
She is the girl who betrays you in
he eyes of your best beau.
He is the man who would boast of
/ woman's love.
She is the woman who would break
mans heart just for the fun of it.
He is the person who brandishes
names in clubrooms.
She is the girl who undermines
mother girls work in the eyes of the
mployer.
He is the man who would borrow
honey from you and forget it.
She is the woman who would tell
our husband about having seen you
omewhere with so and so.
He is the man who would eat your
inner, smoke your cigars, and then
I'll your friends what bad manners
GU nave.
In word, the anonymous letter
ritter belongs to the crook class.
He is the coward who is afraid of
is name.
How're we gona get enough in