The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-06
Six Best Words
 In The English . Language
sy sePHik IRENE LoEs

If you were to ch6ose the six great est words which would you select? ? Within the week college professors and notables have been selecting half a dozen of the greatest words in the English language. The two most pop ular were loyalty and courage"
 President John 4Grier Hibben of Princeton university gave his list as follows: Duty, loyalty, honor, self control, service and sacrifice.
 David Patron. egypotoiogist. quail fled his words this way: Work for works sake; sport for sports sake charity for charity's sake; loyalty for Friendships sake, and . catholic sense of humor.''
 What might seem like great word to one, would De distasteful to another. For example, some people cordially dis have little regard for the word charity because of the way charity ,is sometimes imisused It. used be very beautiful name, but with the coming of the brass band reformers'' snd those who ;overinvestigate the lives of suffering ones before they give them the much needed food--this word charity is stunned by many poor souls and they would rather die than : receive 1t.
 Affinity" is another glorious word that expresses perhaps the most beau tiful sentiment in the life of. humans. But alas! It too has become by word because few foolish ones who thought they were soaring high and came 10 earth with a thud of reckon ing They generally. took mates to whom they had no legal right, and love flew out of the window when the law came into. the door.3,1
 If were asked to name the six greatest words, the first one l would cay would be mother"
 The hardened criminal, the Outcast, the lowliest of the low1y and the high est of the high, at some time or other hugs that word close to his heart. He knows that when all else is gone there the most satisfactory word in the Eng fish languaSe-"Mother.'
 The second word that seems to be fraught with all the precious clements Is friend meaning, of course, the truest sense of the w0rd-the real friend-he who never deserts you. In your darkest. .honr, you think of him as an unfailing source of comfort and cheer.
 : Hope would be my next choice. When this word actually enters into the, makeup of man, the spirit is quickened and no matter how bitter the strife, it is the one ray of light that illumines everything. In truth, shope" is the father of "courage."
 Kindness" is n great word, since it efhbodies so much of the teaching of the greatest teacher. It engenders the feeling that gives to man his best hu- man quality.
 Self-respect" I would say is another fine word that expresses one of the greatest. attributes. If it's real meaning is properly accepted and taken to heart by the individual, he can do no great harm in the world The last and rbest word to me is truth" and it is the only word sug- gested here that has been se- lected by the others. Truth is the biggest word to me, of all the words.
 It may be sidetraeked for time. It may be ugly at times, but no one can get anywhere with shimself or with the word until he thoroughly embraces it.
 And why? Beeansei truth is the ,yootaef sthe xo0d isR the world and is the one unfailihg source of elimi hating the bad. ..z+.