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Show MOST PEOPLE ARE HONEST The University of Illinois is selling apples on the honor system. The student stu-dent who wants to buy an apple takes tak-es one and drops his nickel in a box. Nobody checks hm up. There is nobody no-body to see that he gives his nickel for the apple he, takes. But though the University is selling sell-ing an average of thirty boxes of apples ap-ples a week this way,, it hasn't lost a single nickel. That's because the students, being put upon their honor, hon-or, prove tO' be a hundred per cenl honest. But that's the way people are, really, when you give them a chance. The students at the University of Illinois Il-linois are not much different from other people, in ths or any other way. They may be- a little better, but not much. You could sell apples in the same way on a public street and not lose much by it. There would be a few petty sneak thieves who would take advantage, of course; but the losses wouldn't be enough! to count. It might be different, though, if the faculty had put a box of apples out in a. hall with Ibis sign over it: "Students are forbidden to take these apples." In fact we are inclined to suspect that it would be very different; differ-ent; that Ihe students, thus challenged, challeng-ed, probably would leave a very empty em-pty box under that sign. That's human nature; hut it is also al-so human -nature that when tbase students were put upon their honor. n,l l,n.l aI.. (I,..:- . and had only their own conscience to tell them what they ought to do. every ev-ery one who took an apple bft his nickel for it. These are people, who. if their advice, ad-vice, were asked about a plan, would declare emphatically against it. Their expectation would be that not only would few pay for their apples, but that the nieklos l " by those who did nay would be stolon. When you find a person with that vi-w of human nature, na-ture, don't tenint him too much by leaving valuables around loose. And the fact that people ar" boniest bon-iest when you put them on their honor, hon-or, and that they ;,ro quite likely to try to beat ti-e r, t,. ;r to I f-rce them to I'e rood, is a bit or j nsycholoe-v that a-rood nianv woiin in,-d people ought to do a lot of ' binking about. |