Show v- v ci I W Why 5 y Tolerate Corruption i By M MARLEN E E. E PEW Editor of Editor and Publisher Let us consider the tho man in th the street of or an industrial in- in community the community the individual to whom rhom fearless 3 edItors rs addre address s' s their dally daily news messages In his personal capacity I conceive that the man mann In n tho the street recognizes and acts nets within an ethical code ode Each caters in his stumbling human way to a a. standard of or right It seems a a. fair rait assumption that all aU men have honest motives at motives at least I have havo never known orie one no matter how low Jow who did not show some evidence 1 of cit love and truth and honor Essentially there thero is an individual appreciation of at right as distinguished d. d from wrong But great evils exist Sometimes the whole social scheme seems to bo be out of or hand i I I Ido do not think nn anyone will protest the assertion that hat a 1 blight of apathy has spread over over the country in n tho the postwar age I w m vinder er If JC in nil all the world there Is a a. nation naHon so 80 money minded as our out own It It has produced some mysterious effects strange e In social psychology Moral standards that I the average individual pretends pretends pre- pre tends to to and usually does respect t even ven reverence rc I appear to be lost Jn n the tho crowd Your town and mine will countenance long rong en en- duro ure and eve even make e sport port of ot collective evils which ho tho self respecting citizen wo would ld not for tor an instant tolerate in his own home or in his own life liCe Why was it I ask that decent God fearing In- In tellig nt men men and nd women of or Canton Oh Ohio were blind to o the vital truth of ot a a. fighting editor They need have spent but an hour to prove to their heir satisfaction that a sewer of or vice Ice and crime polluted the tho city and they could have deduced without without without with with- out any editors editor's prompting that such lawlessness J could could n nt not t persist If it the police were vigilant and hon- hon est st- st Wh Why will not the chamber of oC commerce commerce the tho or- or or-I or business of or men a a. community particularly he the n advertisers go O as a n bod body to the editor who Is crusadIng n against corruption and So say Boy the success suc- suc cess ess of or an any city primarily depends on tho the safety health and nobility of cf its citizens citizens' and we commend your our brave braye fight tIght and stand with you for foI a thorough housed caning n ng po A A. |