St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-09-21
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Howe About:
Honesty
A Firm Foundation
Soldiers of Fortune .
By ED HOWE
O. Bell syndicats.--WNU Service.

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sitfon of any kind have al
ways been an humble follower, for
gotten except when leaders are
considering an additional tax
schedule, new drive, or other
foray. f re
But If appointed chief of police l
should have fewer street parades. l
seldom go downtown without find
ing q street roped off for, another
parade, and thus suffer annoyance
and delay.
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The president of a big New York
bonding company writes me-:
"The following is a quotation
from your last issue: 4 Go not be-
lieve the people can be cured of
their natural dishonesty, hut still
have hope they can be taught hon
esty is the best policy, if we teach
it as industriOusly as we have long
been teaching some of OR untrue
doctrines :. The experience of
this company in paying dishonesty
losses forty years convi"ces me
that what is needed in this world
is the teaching Of honesty rather
han preaching: of it. Our preach
.ng has resulted in honesty being
regarded as a 'goody-goody'. doc
trine, to he eulOgized by Sunday
school teachers and the public
schools up to the fourth reader.
No real effort is made to impress
young people with the practical
benefit to be derived from honesty
AS an asset. Anyone can acquire
it, and it will prove an. inexhau$ti-
BILE resource throughout life. Dis
honesty starts when the individual
determines upon course he knows
is wrong; but the impression is net
deep enough to hold him-he has
not been sufficiently taught. If
children were sufficiently. taught
honesty from the beginning, and
continuously, it would not be so
easy for. men and women to depart
from honest ways, and get into the
trouble dishonesty always brings.
L hope you will elaborate on this
theme. in subsequent issues" -
I am regarded as a tiresome scold
by a. good many because 1 have al
ready elaborated on the theme in
many previous issues. I believe we
should teach honesty is the best
policy as persistently and continu-
ously as we teach the Christian re-
ligion. - H.
Honesty Is not "goody -geody"
or Sunday school doctrine; it is the
soundest article in the philosophy
Of experience. Good, conduct is the
surest and safest method of insur-
ing success and comfort in life.
Good conduct pays; and it is easier
in the long run than bad conduct.
I have taught this all my life,
and shall teach 1t hereafter. (,
.
A country or man may progress
too rapidly It was overprogress
that caused Ivar Kreuger, head.of
the Swedish match trust, to COM
nit suicide, and leave behind the
record of scoundrel.
1t was overprogress on the part
Of the United States that brought
US to the present great difficulties.
Progress is one of the best princ4-
Piles, but the details must be at
tended to with the old details of (
caution and common sense. If the
foundation Is not built on solid
rock, there will be topping.
SomeBhere in the hymn book
or Bible there is a line about the
sure foundation. .One- must have
it In everything, If he hopes to get
along as comfortably and safely as
is possible.
The stories Of Soldiers of For
tune, as they appear in the newspa-
pers and magazines exaggerated by
other soldiers of fortune, make
good reading; in my vagrant hours
I sometimes read them myself.
A notable Soldier of Fortune has
just died, missing the average goal
of three score and ten by thirty
years. He was in college when the
war broke out; and. madef high
grades in the football squad. Also.
he sang in the, glee club, land played
In the band, but his grades In legit-.
innate studies were low.
OF course, he promptly enlisted.
and I marvel that man wounded,
so frequently and seriously; was
able, after the armistice, to perform.
such feats Of exploration. as he dis,
played in climbing mountains, fol-
lowing rare specimens of animals.
in Tibet and Africa, and engaging
in revolutions in South America
He hoped to fly across the Atlantic
and thus appear in the movies. butl
at thirty-eight he was@found dead:
whether by his own hand, or at the.
hand Of one of his fellow adyen-
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