Show I r Evening Chit Chit-Chit I w aT mm ii 1 GROUP of ot us u- of ot which a R. news noS artist was one ono w worn were r discussing dis A cu cussing things thing journalistic tho tIme other r da day and anti tho limo turned upon the tho work of oC several se of oC his brother artists With Uh each cach ono one who was nas named he had some somo fault to find The technique of oC the first t was rot ten len ten The faces aces aces' that tho the second drew lI had bad tl no expression The third had no sense of or motion The fourth was a u IL fairly decent draughtsman but didn't havo o H R real snappy Idea once n a month And so on Now all these criticisms may havo ha been u absolutely fair and anel jut just I am um amnot amnot not ou el enough h of or an nn artist to judge whether er cr thc they were or ur not But ut oven If they were absolutely merited mer mer- lied that could not nol prevent the instinct instinct- lye Ivo that swept o over Vill ili II of or us that this thiN man was t jealous of r tho ho men he criticised d Never run mn down the achievements of oC anyone anone In tho same Iame lino hue of oC work as yourself It t doesn't 11 pay J p It Jf you rou must show chow your critical abil abil- It ity show It Il In regard to some eom kind of oC work ork that you do not do f for Or r otherwise other other- wise no matter how JU Justifiable your our ma may bo be boo you will wilU always run the tho risk of oC arousing in in your hearers tho the anta antagonistic antagonistic an an- I ta feeling Ho Bo Is jealous The feeling may bo be entirely unjust t and unfounded 1 I grant rant that But unjust or not nOl It I Is a feeling that thal It ft pays pas to avoid arousing when hen It tan dan bo be done so easily as by keeping ones one's mouth shut at tho the time A young came camo to mo me the tho other da day highly Indignant Some Sonie of oC tho the folks folks' from m my home hometown town she sho announced asked mo me what I thought of ot Ruth as 36 a teacher I J dont don't like her methods at all nil KO so o I ju just t said so so o and explained where I thought sho she was wa wrong and no now I hoar hear I am terribly ter jealous of Ruths Ruth's Now Non Isn't that unjust when thc they asked mo mc themselves e yes 1 Yes I admitted unjust but table What else could I have havo wild said but what Wha I thought when they came camo and land neke naked me mp Indignantly Ruth good In some things thinS's I asked Yes but I told them her good points hotly hoth Well oll couldn't you ou have stopped there But that wouldn't t have b been cn telling the whole hole truth argumentatively cl Need one always alwa's tell everything one knows and thinks In order to be bc truthful truthful truthful truth truth- ful No o oo thoughtfully I 1 suppose not nol but I wasn't jealous They asked what hat i I thought and I lold told old them m. m That's the tho Wl Wa way we C all feel when we C 11 try to bo be honest critics of our fellow workers But that also alro Is ts tho the way we wo aro are all apt to get ct judged And 1 I dont don't think it ft pay panf pays If U It ever o becomes become ne necessary to jud Judge e ea a brother workmans workman's output for someone someone some somo- one who desires to know Its value with Ith witha a n view n to purchase ono must of or course speak of defects as well wen as merits merIt But under any other conditions It seems to mo mc It f Is far ar better from rom a apure pure purely purel utilitarian as well as a moral standpoint to t sp speak ak what good bood one can canari canth ar ari i th then n lock ones one's lips i A I |