The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26
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lnent is possible anywhere, the is that everybody knows them"'
 EVeryoody does not know them although every body have heard them.
 You don't know that lie is until you know that when lies circulated in the human interchange of speech 1t is like flooding monetary currency with bogus coins.
 Speech is A%le currency of thought among words than we do on the geouineness of the coins that circulate among Let the suspicion get abroad that mems words bogus and the coinage of truth, system exchange breaks down.
 Until that, until we act upon the know ledge that faIsehoods infiire the most delicate nerves in the social body, we cannot be the simple principle of truth telling. And until do know it. it doesn't matter how many fangIed matters may be presented please fancy Truth-teIlng is mighty old-fashioned, but it will still a vital principle 8 million years hence wherever confidence between man and is the basis of fellowship cooperation.
 If censor go through world today. cleaning out everything a lie bolster it up. abolshng everything deceit upon forbidding everything needs to be concealed dissenlbled, there would be such house-cleaning in governments, banking houses, in dustTies, societies and combinations as would leave the world unrecognizably clean
 Why, it is the very lack of confidence the abn- ity of high-placed persons to tell the truth and stand by it that has led all the difficulty Conference of Paris! The nations have no conf dence in each others fair professions Why? Simply because they feel that this od stuff" this ''patitude" about the basic importance of truth yet by
 Why demand novelties for a world that yet to learn the A B c of common man-to-ran honesty? The lmpatIence of the world goes even deeper than that There is only tendency thrust
  is still more dangerous tendency to believe that morality of mind and body have no place in big af Yes yes" common remark. i've take these things for granted without mentioning them.' granted unless we insist upon them This world is built on mora!ity-and morality is simply honest thinking and honest doing There is nothing that endures without this morality.
 There will never be any system of government, ing together at all, except on basis of this nor alty.
 a millennium is a system of distribution and another great is insisting nheritor of dollar the right collect 6 to 10 cent from the who did not inherit the dollar.
 No, doesn't matter how mechanically perfect mserabIy Fundamental morality to infuse and sustain it. It is like mak- ing a hoe. The style may be fine, the proportions right pattern perfect; but if you tin it will not be good hoe
 The world teens with social plans and programs, but will never get just and happy society n- til there is a high degree of common morality to pour into the molds.
 s of the faHaces of thought. this that sidetrack this vital element which distinguishes from the brute and raises society above the herd
 In olden times the teachers of Wisdom refused to admit to their instruction any man who was not clean within and without, q well grounded in he who had not learned the fundamentals could not the other things Wisdom presupposed nor ality.
 The old masters were right They grasped a which is beginning to again in day.
 
 moral universe not to be trusted with the secrets which make for progress
 We have what made by of his command over the forces of nature in the recent 
 We may shudderingly imagine what would have happened if mans knowledge natures mysteries had greater than is.
 All of which impresses strongly with the thought that if still more power is to be by hu- man beings, it be under the restraint of conscience and used according to the dictates of morality. Else knowledge becomes our destruction instead of, it intended to be. our great good.