| Show siM SLUM sors 1018 I 1 there have been so BO many evil je reports I 1 sot in circulation by elander I 1 ous tongues in n this city of late which have bave injured church workers kers business men and politicians that THE F fj ss j is constrained to treat of the subject I 1 tourists who visit the burning 1 mountain vesuvius near naples in i italy soon learn the extreme dingers dangers that lurk about its surf surface acs through hidden fissures antho in the mountain escapes a strong sulphurous vapor in in visibly but ab b powerful at times as to td prostrate the iha it strongest person what hat af vapor is to the surface of the volcano slander is to the tha surface of society soc i ety all know there is is a I 1 shouldering ing volcano of corruption underneath the surface of society today at times that godial vol volcano breaks forth in places least expected is active for a time and then the orifice closes and the damage is ia done not so BO with the fissures from whence escape the deadly vapor of slander elander those fissures may continue covertly to attack innocent men and the purest and wisest may not know how to avoid them an eruption is always af attended tended by foia low rumbling rambling noises becoming mors more di dis us aa it nears the surface sui face warning people to 10 get gemont ont of the way slander blander gives oo no but attacks its victims from hidden sources and in an invisible form what can be more deadly to a tir gin trying to live in our community above reproach than to have some sli alah nd derona erOus ian i g le iii rt a rumor tru iru pe aching her chastity what can more effectually neutralize the good W work of a bibb 0 pa or rother chu church rab I 1 worker than to fo start slander on diw cha character need N eed we ask what has closed so many stores ja in provo every busi business nass maewill man will tell you bod wat that slander has had bad more to io do with their cloan closing 9 than the 1 depression an evil repart started concerning concern iLg a business bouse has been found iau nd impossible t to 0 live down in such times as we now have and the has had to succumb it if we had been interested in speaking well of each other on our r business failures would have been less numerous while we wera writing this a citizen of worth to any community who had lived in provo happened in our sanctum we mentioned to him the evil effect effee s of slander and he be intimated that one of the reasons why he a was the slanderous spirit of our community we that provo is ia not making for herself a reputation that will drive desirable citizens from our midst because of el anJer THE ei eh compelled to confess how ho OT 80 many evil reports are these days in in circulation ali that fit lt it behooves all rood good citizens to t 0 decry the practice of repeating them even etan though true it is ia a bad thing to io aspre spread a daiil evil reports but bit in too many I 1 ai t aric esthere there is no foundation far what at we hear it is slander pure and simple bin pie |
