Show IN THE MATTER OF MORALS Wrong Assumption That City People Have Anything Like Monopoly of Wickedness s. s The fiction of the wickedness of cities has hns been heen largely ely created b by country men and the they ought to know Much of what Is evil e In every ery large town Is particularly reserved for vis vas visiting ItIn farmers The theatrical manager manager mana mann ger er who puts on a n salacious show Invariably In town out trade variably has Ins the chien chiefly In mind writes Heywood Broun In Judge Tude Time The book bool agent ent stocked up with secret court memoirs memoirs me me- and droll stories and such like never ne' thinks of attempting n a sale until he has hns made a n train trip or at least along along a n long trolley trolle ride We do not mean menn to contend of course COUlse that these there books fall fail to attract much attention In town because of or orthe the cIt city d dwellers dweller's llers ller's militant purity of heart lIe He has hns no such thing but he possesses something almost as ns good goodas as os virtue He lie Is a little Jaded What point Is there In reading rending about Pompadour when there ther Is so much Interesting gossip to discuss concernIng concerning concern- concern In Ing the tenant who has just taken apartment A 5 A No country people are not a n bit better than city folk The They nUl may have ha n a sll slightly smaller number of sins actually committed to their credit but that Is not the result of virtue but merely of 1 Ineptitude |