The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-13
THE REVERSE OF TRUTH
By Rev. "Golightly" Morrill,,

Is embellishing the truth a universal pastime?
The world is full of liars-pote, persistent pausi-
bic and picturesque. People lie asleep and awake for
pleasure and profit lie themselves to each other and
about each other lie to your face and behind your back
There society liars with their masked ife polit-
1ca liars, who promise reforms they don't intend CEN
sor all the news suppress the truth in print and wire
what will please the world; commercial liars whose
Yea for much" discounts Ananias and Sapphira;
patriotic liars who boast the rich resources and profit
able investments of their country and the Justice lib
erty and opportunity extended to ALL church liars who
live and le and desgnedly continuously and wickedv
deceive their flock with pack of silly superstitions
scandaous and sophstical fasehood in doctrine wor-
snip and practice; press liars, who subsidized by
general moned interests to dstort the truth diplo
matte liars, smooth in looks and speech, who with a
shuttle-cock tongue, the warp and wool of a
false fabric with which to cloak their own or their ma
TONS vice and viliany.
The Devil is said to be the Father of Lies" but like
some other great inventors to have lost much
OF his early reputation because of the many hghgrade
improvements which have been made on him.
lie is an intention to deceive by speech, silence
gesture, look or life. You may call thing subterfuge
evasion, pretense deception Misrepresentation prevar
cation or by any other with long length and
thunderous sound but your old mother spelled it with
three letters-'lie'.
Liars fill large place in religion business society
politics, war; art, literature and science
Lying is as easy" in Hamet's dav and the
high gear speed false tongues hit up and keep up
makes racing auto look like an OK cart in comparison
We have liars experienced, Industrious ambitious and
often quite picturesque, and many "ar of the first
magnitude" You will find very few like Achilles who
hated lies like the gates of hell or like Erasmus who
had distaste for liars from his youth.
Some are born liars from crib to coffin others oro
mars by education and requirement some liars are care
lessly ignorant and don't know when thew lie 1vbilo
others lie awake nights to plan to lie all the next dav
In province of Siam is said an ancient law reoyed
liar to have his mouth sewed up If this were apped
70 cluos how quiet they would be and how anv ladies'
cnurch sewing societies would run out of thread
Lying does not pay, and is unnecessary for great
VI goou end' what you gain by classifying YOU lose bv
Oeng dlstrused when you do tell the truth In history
and biography we learn how single lie leads tn lab
yrnth OF deceit, that slight turn in the highway f
truth ends In by-way of complication embarrassment
and Justification
Fasehood is prolific, lie breeds another untrutb
cannot stand on one leg and becomes centinede with
huhdred Falsehood is like building with moor and
roCten foundation that always requires some now ad
Justment patching and propping up
we sometimes seem to forget all the commandments
to it." az anu S'icA
rIoVeroally we know "a liar is sooner caught than
tnat liars should have good memories" that
ueiuSlon, mockery and snare;" that "a
"r Is moral suicide and assassin of human soci
ety; that "the most mischevious lais a,o +hoaa -
keep sliding on the verge of truth" that sin hoe n
VOols put lie is the handle that fits them aIln
Death ends ife's masquerade ball. lvino maslx Mill
Oe TORN from the hypocrites face and in tba 1ib+ &c
eIerhlCys truth we shall be rewarded for 1vbo+ - -
anu not Tor what we seemed to he