Show 0 I f TIMELY TOPICS I t 0 SINCERITY i r l r H A customary form fonn of taking leave In In corr correspond spond- spond ence Is Js the does phrase Sincerely yours jours Ours How of often en i It mean anything Usually ft it is as insignificant cant as the word Dear which at the correspondents use start of ot their letters Jetters antagonistic even when they are Sincerity Is Js one of ot the ancient homely virtues fundamental to cv civilization essential to the maintenance nance of ot society on a plane above the cutthroat high-handed high hard hearted Unless basis of qt utter r s selfishness l nes nations and Individuals are sincere re with each other the they will get nowhere In their ther mutual dealing Each will ba be- suspecting the other of a t sinister hidden aim atm ot of keeping cards up p the sleeve sleeve sleeve-ot of spyIng spy- spy spying Ing Ingua and d pr prowling wll g for advantages I n JI you are sincere re with me me I may believe what T I read in your face I m may y be sure that you are what hat you seem J shall know that re you will the truth though It be bo to o your own hurt In tell teIl every me act as in every word I shall find you genuine The power of statesmanship st as a Lincoln thus illus it Jt or or ora a Lord Robert Cecil exemplifies it In our immediate day Is la the tho power of or sincerity the blight of ot politics as as It H has been peen been too oo often sh shown In wn this our city is the curse durse of ot sly and In ins Ings evasive dealIngs deal deal- s of or r roundabout trickery of ot an anything and thing but eyer everything every every- I candor r No solid work for public good or private benefit can go forward rd with the minds Qt liars lars and their hands directing directing- 3 it on its steering whatever gear We must the enterprise have leaders we can trust Those who fool tool u us 11 for tor their selfish ends will or later hater be set down where they sooner belong those who strive generou generously IY with no mercenary bias in their zeal will be known In time and tion tely remembered affection by the race they served It may have discouraged the honest to see ho how the dishonest I were prospering but hut at the end the cheaters I to grief and men saw them for tor precisely came what were and affixed d to they them their value alue and their lefi- lefi A As the lIn lines s are written there comes to the tho writer a printed eulogy of a public servant In which It is said that he was a sincere sincer advocate of ot all means of ot providing for good government was m meant ant by the word What sincere indention Undoubtedly ly the was s to say that this man had no ulterior motive n his effort to honest secure an able clean and political administration He sought no profit for tor himself He lIe did not say one thing thing- and another 1 he kept ept hi his promises he was true mean It is important to be sincere first of all with selves ourselves ourselves our our- not to deceive ourselves as to the sort of ot folk tolk we are and the real reasons for what we do Those who c cheat at thel themselves se ves are ready to cheat cheal anybody else and to keep faith with the inner light an and the monitor ginning gIn In conscience is Is' Is to make a a. right begIn be be- be our dealing with our fellow men Phila Phila delphia Ledger 1 I |