Show I I I I I Quoted Quoted 1 I By Hartford Curtis I Copyright 1923 New York Evening Eve Eve- fling ning World Press Publishing CoBy Co S By HARTFORD CURTIS A Bird o of an Idle Word hath bath flown from Thee Not Ten Thousand Horses fast could it as it passed Japan Japanese se Couplet I once listened to an dinner after address by P P. P N. N Beringer Beninger a ne newspaper newspaper news news- s- s paper man of San Francisco on Carelessness in Speech which he concluded with the above quota qUota- tion Speech in its effect he said is like the widening ripple on the water when stirred by a pebble I thrown upon its surface In its immediate effect It Is more mare potent than the written message Its in influence influence influence in- in I fluence for good or ill is unending It makes or unmakes reputations I preserves or blasts the f fair fr name lof of women Is a powerful weapon for goo good In n the mouth of tho scrupulous I ulous tilous for ill in the mouth of of- the tho unscrupulous Scandal he said sallI is the he hallmark of ot dishonesty the white lie more dangerous s than the black tho the poison tongue more to be feu feared red than the poison pen Since then there has been formed in England a Padlock society so- so cali called ed whose hose object is to do away sO-I. sO with carelessness in speech its members promise never to say sayan an unkind word about anyone true or untrue 5 |