Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-14 | Page 4 | We Still Have Selflessness

We Still Have Selflessness I ti 0 OUT UT QT of the story of the fury of the he elements that struck the Florida coast last week the there e emerges emerges' only one fact from which fl any iny satisfaction may be derived As the hurricane hurricane hurri- hurri cane wip wiped d out homes and left death and mis- mis p cry in its path there here were countless cases of i 1 individual heroism and self-sacrifice self to give assurance as- as 1 that in this peculiar era fundamental i J virtues live ive to spring pring into action when challenged chal chal- challenged I longed by their manifestation I In the tragedy men and women responded I unasked to give comfort and aid to the stricken braving danger seemingly without fear ear for their i- i iown J own welfare Sailors engaged in rescue work members of inland relief crews doctors and coast guards and nurses and train crews and all aJl I I manner of ordinary folk all of them have I sh shown wn that the h human man races race's fund of heroism its its ts capacity for self sacrifice in time of stress t E i is utterly inexhaustible There seems to be some something hing about human pat nature re that rn makes kes it appear at its best under j pressure We go along in ordinary times and I l ii witness witness the pettiness s the selfishness and the he i t innumerable w erable inglorious traits that all of us are t t ex i and 4 we y gm oP t i that hat 1 1 r I j f z A A man man is such a a. a great shakes after all Then something like this hurricane comes along confronting con con- confronting confronting con con- fronting thousands of obscure folk with pain darkness and death and death and invariably we discover er that the race has deep reserves of ot nobility