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Show MOST, PEOPLE ARE HONEST How many of the people whom you pass on the streets, are absolutely honest? "Four out of five!" answers Solomon Ulmer.' He recently demonstrated this by an odd experiment. Ulmer, head of a mortgage company in Cleveland, is raising money for a new tuberculosis sanitarium in Los Angeles. He picked 1000 names at random from his local city directory. To each of these he mailed this letter, with a $1 bill inclosed: "You can keep this dollar if you want to, but we hope you won't We hope you will send it and another one to me as your subscription to the fund. We believe everyone is really kind and generous. We are investing invest-ing $1000 to prove that belief. Have we made a good investment? What is your answer?" Out of the 1000 who received a letter and $1 bill, 600 returned return-ed the dollar with at least one more, 200 sent the dollar alone and 200 kept the dollar. The 200, of course, are not dishonest as the law views such things. They were told they could keep the dollar if they preferred, but an appeal was made to them in a good cause and they- were put on their honor to repay. At any rate, at least four out of five are absolutely honest, and three out of five are generous as well as honest. Cases like this give renewed confidence in our fellowmen at large especially the strangers whose elbows brush ours on the 'streets. As you follow the daily news and read of holdups, confidence con-fidence games, swindles and burglary, maybe you occassionally get the notion that the world reeks with dishonesty. Not so. The dishonest cases are the exceptions. That's why they are news a record of the unusual. Pueblo Star-Journal. |