Show A WARNING TO MEN The Old the Old Lesson We take from the Inter-Ocean this fine and true count of an incident of Hardy H. Whitlock for a score of years has been one of the citizens of Vermillion county most trusted by his fellow He has held various local offices most of that elected to them because of the firm and never lessening confidence felt in his Seven years ago when sheriff of the he showed what one resolute man can do to uphold the majesty of of the law and the law-abiding honor of his made the name of Vermillion county known throughout the land for its fearless and faithful and he and the county were cited as examples to other sheriffs and other counties of what they ought to 1 At a time when he happened to be and without mob attacked the jail with intent to take a from the custody of the Single-handed Hardy Whitlock beat off that and afterwards brought to due punishment by the courts twenty-nine of He vindicated the power and the majesty of the law as has seldom been done by one But on Monday Hardy H. called upon to account as treasurer of Vermillion county to his had to admit that he could not produce nearly of the funds which had committed to his There was no possible The money should have been and it not Hardy Whitlock and his wife did what they could to make good the They turned over to the treas- A bondsmen they and faced old age s with There will be no loss to Vermillion a possible loss to the of only a few hundred Of course it was the old story of ventures that went of yielding to the temptation to use temporarily only just for a few weeks or months the trust funds at hand to them go And they go That was There will be no Nearly in Danville is too sorry for Hardy Whitlock to wish thing of the There will be no legal brand of dis- 1 grace for Hardy Nearly everybody in Ver- county is glad But the of it And the moral loss of such a j fall to the Here was a man who was the j civic hero of his and deserved to And he isn't any He can't And the loss to the community of a shining example is no less than the loss to The of is the old one that it is never for of trust funds to risk them in any other manner whatsoever than as the law For the day of accounting always And when it comes it may show not only a good man gone wrong but a community morally and spiritually poorer by his |