Show howe about 10 honesty A firm foundation soldiers of fortune 0 bell indicate service mam 1 by ED HOWE HAVE never occupied official position of tiny any kind I 1 have always been an humble follower forgotten C except X when leaders are consider considering lu an additional tax schedule a new drive or other foray but it if appointed chief of I 1 should have fewer street parades I 1 seldom go downtown without finding a street roped off for another parade and thus suffer annoyance and delay the president of a big new york soi h bonding company writes me the following Is a quotation from your last issue 1 I do not believe the people can be cured of their natural dishonesty but still have hope liepe they can be tau taught honesty is the best polley policy if we teach it as industriously as we have lon long been teaching some of our untrue d doctrines 0 ct rines the experience per peri lence ence of this company in paying dishonesty losses forty years convinces me that what is needed in this world Is 13 the teach teaching Dm 0 of honesty rather than preaching of it it our preaching has resulted in honesty being regarded as a goody goody doctrine to be eulogized by sunday school teachers and the public schools up tip 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 inexhaustible resource throughout hout life dishonesty starts when the individual determines upon a course lie he knows is wrong but the impression is not deep enough to hold him he has not been sufficiently taught if children were sufficiently tau taught honesty from the beginning and continuously it would not be so easy tor for men and women to depart from honest ways and get into the trouble dishonesty always brings I 1 hope you will elaborate on this theme in subsequent issues 11 I 1 am re regarded carded as a tiresome scold by a good many because I 1 have already elaborated on the theme in many previous issues I 1 believe we should teach honesty is the best policy as persistently and continuously as we teach the christian religion honesty is not a goody ody goody or sunday school doctrine it is the soundest article in the philosophy of experience good conduct is the surest and safest method of insuring success and comfort in life good conduct pays and it is easier in the long run than bad conduct I 1 have taught this all my life and shall teach it he hereafter reaVer A country or a man may progress too rapidly it was over progress that caused ivar kreuger head of the swedish match trust to commit suicide and leave behind the record of a scoundrel it was over progress on th part of the united states that brought us to the present great difficulties progress is one of the best principles but the details must be attended to with the old details of caution and common set sense it if the foundation is not built on solid sol rock there will be a toppling somewhere in the hymn book or bible there is a line about the sure foundation one must have it in everything if lie ile hopes to get along as comfortably and safely as is possible the stories of soldiers of fortune tune as they appear in the newspapers and magazines exaggerated by other soldiers of fortune make good reading in my va vagrant rant hours I 1 sometimes read them myself A notable soldier of fortune has just died missing the average goal of three score and ten by thirty years ile he was in college when the war broke out and made high grades in the football squad also lie he san sang in the glee club and played in the band but his grades in legitimate studies were low of course he promptly enlisted and 1 I marvel that a man wounded so frequently and seriously was able after the armistice to perform such ft teats ats of exploration as he displayed in climbing mountains following 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 but at thirty eight lie he was found dead Nh whether ether by his own hand or at the hand of one of his fellow adventurers is not known still I 1 prefer the story of thos A edison and humbler men who have bavo striven in the more useful if loss less exciting fields if if endeavor I 1 do not love life as ardently a some isome say they do but possibly few have become more accustomed to it than I 1 am ain at seventy nine tho the things I 1 shall dislike to give up are becoming fewer every year I 1 suppose I 1 shall finally hate hale to go |