The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
[eanest Person Is One Who Fails His Friends
By SOPHIE IRENE LOEB Copyright, 1924, Press Publishing Com
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The meanest person in the world is he who tries to create trouble between \ friends. In the words of Cicero:
 They seem to take away the sun from the world who withdraw friend kshiH from life; for we have received Dothing better from the Immortal Gods, nothing more delightful
 I have a belief that any one who brings about arrangement, where that great spirit of friendship is lost, always gets paid some way, somehow for his wrongdoing. . have an instance in mind that oc- {Ghfed but very short time ago. A woman who was envious of the love ! existing between two other women and brought about very hard feelings. For months they avoided each other and were very unhappy.
 But the day of reckoning came, and It usually does. The women met some ghere in the heart of the woods and hey were thrown together in an unus- the whole matter. They realized the mischief the coveteous one had made The result of the erring one was given Absent treatment, not only by the two women, but it seemed everyone of their hcquaintances learned about it. She had 10 leave town.
 RI Learns A Lesson
 She certainly learned a lesson, bit Yer though it was. She had to pay the price. She had never been happy since.
 know another case of men in bus
 ess who were the greatest friends and
 Eo~ brise. They dissolved their partnership Is the result of the machinations of
 iserable intruder, who broke up a
 ,fine association. But bad luck lemed to follow the latter, after he did this thing, and he, himself, has attrib- uted his misfortunes to his deliberate mean act.
 M And of all the terrible things, it is that in which you have put your trust in friend, and that friend at a crit Heal time has turned against you. It is not so much the loss of such one lSthat is heart-breaking, but rather that he has shaken your faith in friendship. He has robbed you of something more Eprecious than the mere loss of a friend. He has taken from you the thing upon which the whole world is built-a be- fef that there is some one that will lot fail you.
 The Golden Thought
 That is the most golden thought in the world.
 It is hard to forgive person who Him most. The worst thing that hap Fails friend at a time when he needs has-that if such friend could go back bens in such a case is the doubt one bn him, then might not others in whom bne has had great trust do the same Ehing?
 I believe there is no punishment big 'enough for one who falls short and brings distrust into the heart of one who |iudglnent the law of balances is invoked -and such a one always comes to grief secauae of his misdeeds.
 Foul cannot SOW the seeds of spite md rekp any kind of harvest of hap |67ness.Y When a person continues to ealignl another he gets into the habit Ptil 1T becomes difficult for him to .f hething good. It shows in his
 in his actions and he is gen.
 istrusted. Look about you Il always some one in your midst whose demeanor is repellent because you Know he has nothing nice to say about anybody.
 Such a one soon finds himself pretty much alone. The good old adage, "See not, hear not, speak no evil," of any one stands in good stead. There is some thing that gets into the very air and oneates good, if you send out good bughtS. While you cannot just prove is by arithmetic, everybody knows the Results by experience.