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Show HOW MANY STEALS? How many id' the people, whom yon" pass on the si reels, are absolutely abso-lutely Inmost! "Four out of five!" answers Solomon t'lnier. lie recently re-cently demonstrated this by an odd experiment. I.'lmer, head of n mnrlgnge company com-pany in Cleveland, is raising money for a new tuberculosis sanitarium In Los Am-'clcs. He picked 1000 names at random from his local city kept the dollar. i The 2nd, of course, are not tils- j bonest as the law views such tilings. They were told they could keep the dollar if they preferred. But an appeal was made to them j In a good cause and they were put cn their honor to repay. At any rate, at least four out of five are absolutely honest, and three out of five are generous as directory. To each of these he mailed this letter, with a $1 bill enclosed en-closed : "Von can keep this dollar if you ntnt to, but we hope you won't. We .ope you'll send it and another one o me as your subscription to the 'nd. We believe everyone is really ;ind and generous. We are investing invest-ing $1000 to provo that belief. Have we made a good investment What is your answer?" Out of Ihe 1000 who received a letter and $1 bill, COO returned the dollar with at least one more, 200 sent the dollar back alone, and 200 I well as honest. Cases like this give us renewed confidence in our fellowmen at large especially the strangers whose elbows brush ours on the street. As you follow the daily news and read of hold-ups, confidence games, swindles and gurglnry, maybe you occasionally get the notion that the world reeks with dishonesty. Not so. The dishonest cases are the exceptions. That's why they are news a record of the unusual. Honesty is so common and general, gen-eral, that eases of it are not news. |