Show I Honor Antony mon Thieve Thieve- e Josiah Fly Flynn Flyn in in Success Magazine I have havo often been asked a as to 10 whether I honor among e thieves is fact or fic ne- tion lon The ThC question I Is not easy Ing to toan an answer wel In the first place honor I Ia is isa a relative term lerm its is interpretation FO so FOit 0 it i seems seem to me mp depending on place person pron and anti circumstance Those Thos casuists of or the t cynical sort who affirm that all ni human motive Is based on selfishness will wi hardly except the tho attitude ru- ru n- n in question from Crom their thick generali sat ion However open to criticism this same ame generalization tn is as ItS far 0 as It Il applies lothe to lo the average l citizen I am certainly In Inclined In- In dined to accept H IL I where the tho crook I is concerned The business of or attaching to things s that dont don't belong to you vou ou Is I plainly of or a n vcr very selfish nature It Ft has Its Inception a as well weB os as 10 its Is execution eXt exe cution cuton in a des lre to get as much no nos- nos I pleasure with wih us little possible po trouble as n ma may h be 11 and that too while ignoring the lie Incidental rights of o anybody any- any bod body an and e ct hod This statement s as is I take It I Is a pret pretty fair air all definition of oC selfishness s of an any and eVer every dc description A As mo most t motives mot cs take color from the lie acts from which they th spring or oi to which thE they relate it i follows fol fo- oh- oh lows that clint the honor which we te aro arc pleased to think of u us existing between rogues rogues' Is In iii reality a something which I Is prompted b by a due re regard mel for tor the thA pel persons ons or 01 the purses purt of the selfsame Individuals Tills dl distinguishes the honor that obtains in the Underworld Underworld Under Under- world from rom that which is mORt mostly In n evidence e In the O In the he heIn In latter ter Instance tho the factor of or ones one's good name or 01 character Is Involved it Ss Is S absent In the former fornier From this characterization you ou will wi infer a as in iii indeed 11 deed I intend that you rOl shall that the tho honor of the lie Powers that Pre Prey Is Js but a poor pOOl sort ort of 0 l thing after aler all al |