Show ARE TRUTH AND COURTESY RARE Cynic Suggests That When Seen Now Toy EcHo Wonder From thu Washington Post A few days ago a New York newspaper newspa-per printed a arles of short stories entitled en-titled True Tales of the Sti cct These stories briefly were of a cabman who told a stronger In New York that the WaldorfAstoria was only a block and a half distant Instead of seducing him into a cab driving him a dozen san s-an charging him a m dollar of C citizen zen who went out oC his way to courteously cour-teously direct an Inquirer to 1 desired locality of a bootblack who refused to nhlne a mans ilready polished shoe of a polloeman who declined 0 If of 510 and last of all of n newsboy who ould not dispose of his surplus papers by deceitfully claiming that they were copies of the latest edition Very cleverly clev-erly these stories were told and yet after all they conveyed the Impression that the writer was sarcastic and cynical cyni-cal that the Incidents which he related with so much detail never happened and that In fact their very unlikelihood gave them their chief charm Aye therew the rubl Are such acts of truth and courtesy no rare that they excite our wonder when we nee them recorded or do they seem unreal because be-cause good actions are so Infrequently chronicled Let us hope hint the latter Is really the case I would certainly be a sorry situation If courtesy and kindness and truth have gone the way of the peterodactyl and the trilobite only to be regarded as something unique that belonged to ancient times We do not believe that this situation has come to zmss |