Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-03-17 | Page 7 | A Soul-Testing Drama

r- r L A Testing Soul Drama II v y THE HE E other day in Philadelphia a man set setI setout 1 I J- J lout out to look for work The home that he left that morning was a miserable little hovel of two rooms In it remained the theman's theman's theman's mans man's wife and three small children hoping hopin desperately that he would be able to find some sonic sort of job Getting a job was a pressing necessity because the thc family's finances totaled just 27 cents The Flie man maii left I 18 8 cents of this with his wife keeping 9 cents for himself Then he set out Up and down the streets he walked all day long looking for work He went to place after place and got the same answer at each place no help wanted You can imagine that as the thc day wore on the man d did dd d some sonie pretty serious thinking This was not the first day he had put in in inthis inthis inthis this way not by any means He lie had been out ut of work for a long time With four people besides himself to feed and just 27 cents in all the world to do it ii with you can see sec that things must have looked pretty black to him hini I ISO So as he hc continued his liis hopeless quest he lie got to thinking why hy not try a holdup or a robbery Other men do it every day and get away av wilh it Why hy not Anything surely surely sure sure- ly was better belter than seeing his family starve to death The Tile longer longcr he walked the more insistent tl ti this tI thought o ht got o The Flie man mali tried to put it out ot ins Jus mind as he had always been a sober industrious workman but it kept coming coming com corn ing lug back until finally he was afraid that he lie would leap at the throat of the next well- well dressed stranger he met So at last afraid of what he might do he went to a police and asked to be bc locked up so that he hc i would not liot commit a crime it t is very comforting to be able to relate that the policemen and the judge judge- before whom they took this man nan proved They took up a purse for him hini and the judge saw to it that a job was found for foi forthe the tic man and so he lie was able to go o back to 4 l his is family with good news after all But the thing to remember is that al at- at though this story had a happy ending many many ny stories like it do not This desperate desperate des des- chap wondering if it mi might ht not b be better to commit a crime than to let his hb family starve is not the only American who has been in that dilemma lately not lately not by several several sev sev- eral cral thousands Yet the wonder is how strong and brave men are ire in face of testing soul-testing troubles Most families go through their hours of darkness sieges darkness sieges of sickness when the doctor and ind hospital bills seem staggering times the breadwinner is out of work and ana the fu future future fit fu- ture lure looks black as night But human nature on 1 the average is noble and wonderful Theres There's a God given quality in Ill man that makes him hini fight through the worst mazes of apparently able problems That's real heroism m. m As much genuine courage is displayed in battling lifes life's everyday c troubles as was ever shown on the battlefields of the world It may not he as spectacular lint hut it is ever every bit as real More glory therefore to the makers home of the land