| Show CRIME AT OUR DOORS the battle between officers and a citizen in a community not twenty miles from this city the self imposed death of the citizen and the apparent fact that he was a bad man serve to bring home the tact fact that crime Is at our very doors and none ot of us know when an outbreak may occur which will result in sorrow and distress to any one of us greed and the desire to obtain this worlds goods in order to keep up with the times has driven many an honorable man to commit crime within the past few years the respect for human life is growing less and less and men are apt to do anything when fits of anger overtake them because ot of some fancied wrong in which the material things ot of life are the predominating feature extravagance living beyond ones means the desire to keep up appearances cause many to lead a false life and oftentimes do things which they would shrink from doing it if it was not for the urge 0 of that something which makes them imagine that their pride must be saved at all costs we are living too fast as is attested by the broken broken lives of those who have failed to keep up the pace and the end Is not yet it men could be too proud to sail under false colors too honest to pretend something they are not too loyal to principles ot of right to compromise with their consciences willing to live in their own world as they themselves make it by the honorable toll toil ot of their own brain and hands there would be less trouble among humanity we are too prone to set up false ideals and then break our necks in an endeavor to attain the them we need to search our hearts individually and get back to the teachings ot of our childhood incorporating them in fr the code of our present day life and do everything possible to get away from the destructive notions which seem to have fastened themselves upon society in general today could we but remember and follow |
