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Show MOST PEOPLE ARE HONEST, SAYS SECY. MORGENTHAU Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury, basing his remark upon income tax returns, asserts that "they show that 99 percent of the American people are honest." Undoubtedly, the vast majority of people are honest but the fact cannot be proved by the percentage percent-age of income tax returns that fail to reveal efforts to cheat the government. The average American Ameri-can is no fool and he has a lurking lurk-ing suspicion that his income tax arithmetic will be checked thoroughly. thor-oughly. There may be differences of opinion as to the exact percentage of honest people, with some thinking think-ing that 99 percent is an optimistic estimate. |