The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-24


A gambler who beats and wins Is a
thief. If he beats and loses he is a I
fool. So every gambler is either a /
fool or a thief, or both.
If a church runs a lottery, that
church is dirty low thief. As rule
the man who steals a million stands
a better show to keep out of the peni-
Tertiary than the fellow who steals
hundred thousand.
So true has that become that a
friend of mine suggested that we take
that commandment, and make 1t read,
Thou shalt not steal on small
SCALE"
Here's what / believe. You can call
this republicanism, you can call IT de-
mocracy, you can call it whatever you
please, here's what l believe. be-
lieve that the man who sticks gun
under my nose on the public highway
and demands my money, or my life,
measured by every rule and standard
of honesty, he is no more thief than
that man or combination of men who
secure control of nations food or fuel
supply, or some other necessity and in
! dispensable commodity and then put
the price of that commodity up SO
! high that the working man can't afford
to buy it, and then give him the alter
i native of paying the price for 1T or
starving or freezing to death. He is a
darn thief
"Thou art weighed in the balances,
and art found wanting"
Safety First for America"
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor."
You say:
If You Felt Sorry
You'd Say Nothing
Bill, / have never been in court"
Somebody tells something deroga-
tory about another and you don't
stop to find out whether what they
said was true or not. You begin to
tell it around the street to others and
you say:
/ Have you heard the latest? Oh,
it is rich and rare and racy.
Have you heard the story about
Mrs. Jones?"
mo, l haven't"
poor soul, l feel so sorry for her"
you are an old liar. If you felt
sorry, you'd keep your old mouth shut.
That is what you'd do.
Thou shalt not bear false. witness
J against thy neighbor.'
J Don't you know some of the darn
; lies that you told about me before
J came to town? You know there are
7 muItitudes Of people that are past
: masters and adopts at critizing others
Like young lady. A friend asked
| her:
]. Can you sew"
: She said:
7 mo, but l can rip up beautifully
A Spanish proverb said:
II "Tf orr fau1tC wpro Urittan m on
e foreheads, we'd all go around with
4 our hats over our eyes
What are your neighbors' short
comings to you? Your faults vol
f think hidden, perhaps may stand GU
as plain as the scandal you are talk
ing about and your trifling fault
!, may seem just as black and set PEG
- pie talking behind your back.
. Legitimate in War
l. But Not at Home
Ambuscade may be legitimate il
warfare, but in dealing with you
T; neighbours faults is cowardly. Leav
g your ambuscade and come into tn
g open, don't try and divert attention
t. from your rotten life by throwing mu
S at somebody else. The Spanish Pre-
e verb says:
s Whoever splits against the win,
: spltS IN MS own face.
a In other words, you will get
where Queen Elizabeth wore the ruff
q One of the besetting sins of nearl
e every community is gossip.
% Stop your prattling, stop your Ia
y Ting,
Tales you know to be untrue
q Stop your idle talk and bride we'll
L.. u u
E E One man or woman to set on fir
u H. this hellish thing, can keep a Who'll
&c neighborhood in an uproar.
Oh, gossips set husbands to quarre
ing with their wives; wives with the
husbands. They will make men SUI
ut picious of their wives and wives SUI
d icious of their husbands. haV
IS more respect for the poor old ha
going under the gas light of the city, a
lie outcast, than ! have for this membe
lie of so-caIled respectable society who VI
IS. der the cover Of that damnabe bus
s. ness will assassinate the character
1g others. A breath of scandal sWee
r. ing the community, numbering the re
utation of men and women and causir
tears of anguish
lg Shun the tale bearer, the tattIe
?" the sossiper; shun these buzzingpes
w of society.
An old philosopher was right whe
p he said, "Those who listen to sland,
ou would, if | had my way, be hanged
nd the tattlers by their tongues, and IL
listeners by their ears"
OF Thou shalt not bear false witne
IN against thy neighbor,"
az There is only one worse than Il
at slanderer. That is the man or Il
ny woman who will listen to the Sian
II. erers without protest The receiver
W stolen goods is as guilty before Il
ne law as the fellow that stole the good
When you sit and listen without Or
test, you are as black-hearted as Il
one that told you. And the fence is
:, guilty as the thief.
lh Little Resemblance
nc, to the Original
" | believe that story false that Dug
~ not be true. Did you ever play Il
W game of gossip when you were XII
!, We used to line up on the road; o.
would whisper to one and that o.
next to that, and on down and t
one to whom it was told last won
oh let up and repeat it. Then it won
81 be compared with the original and
81 ter story or a sentence had filter
ia through the minds of twenty or thir
70 people you'd be dumbfounded to d
~ cover that there'd be little or no