Washington County News | 1927-07-28 | Page 7 | An Unspotted Character

AN UNSPOTTED CHARACTER Money is a good thing, especially In these times, but there is something much more valuable. It is character, the consciousness of a pure and honorable honor-able life. This it should be a young man's first aim to preserve at any cost. During the past year during the commercial com-mercial distress, while many were proved prov-ed and found wanting, others came forth tried as by fire. Here and there one comes out of the furnace far more of a man than before. Amid the wreck of his fortune he stands erect a noble specimen of true manhood. Let it be the aim of every young man, every business man, above all things else, to keep this purity sustained. This is the best posession this is a capital which can never be taken from him this is the richest inheritance which he can leave to his children. Let every young man who reads this look at the list of wealthy men. who. during the past year have been placed behind prison bars. Men who fell from prominence to disgrace dis-grace simply because they permitted j black spots to form upon their char-j char-j acter.