Show Mr Whitney Is Free C CONVICT No who has spent 40 months in New Yorks York's Sing Sing prison has again been returned to public life and given Ilven the use of his name Richard Whitney He was a different Richard Whitney from the man who for five successive terms ruled the New York Stock exchange as its president president president dent lost in Wall street and who was convicted of stealing from client brokerage accounts The year old former Wall Streeter who had made during his 40 months in prison paused before leaving the prison to remark on the beautiful day Possibly that was something he had learned during his in in- in Perhaps he had never reflected on the beauties of any day during the years he he- spent in high finance in the shadowed canyons of Ne New Ne York It seems a shame that Richard Whitney had tl 1 to exp experience a term In prison before he was able to appreciate the beauty the honesty and the satisfaction that nature has provided by merely making a beautiful ul day Most of us are like that Most of us are so absorbed in t the e hectic processes of living that we fail to take time to transcend our thoughts to the b beauties with which nature has endowed 11 us Of course it needn't take a prison term to learn the truth of the adage that the best things in life are free but it does take a mom moments moment's mo- mo m ment's ments nt's reflection which a good of many us are wont to pass by As As for Richard Whitney he may have ample time for contemplation of many beautiful beautiful ful days since he plans to superintend a Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts Massa Massa- farm But if he has le learned lemed to look Into the sky and to thrill to the patterns lacy of a a. a cloud bank against a blue background he already has paid a good share of his debt to society O |