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Show IPs Overdone , To speak no ill of the dead is the right general policy, so much ill can be said of any of. us, when dead. But, laudation of the dead, whom neither praise nor criticism affects, can be carried to such an extreme'as to be positively injurious to the :ivmgi The president of the United States tells the world of ;the late ex-Navy Secretary Denby: "His life - was an outstanding example of good citizenship." citizen-ship." - - - : The outstanding fact in Mr. Denby's life was his being forced from a position of great trust, by reason of his stupidly stu-pidly innocent or deliberate involvement in--a conspiracy to .rob the nation that trusted him. Kegard for the dead is carried car-ried pretty ar when the" head of the betrayed nation offers such a public servant as an example, to -men. now serving the public and to the young men with ambition to rise to distinction" distinc-tion" in the public service. ; ' : 1 : |