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Show POINTS OF VIEW CALL FOR CODE OF GOLDEN RULE "It occurs to me," said George B. Cautious, ut the weekly meeting ot the Rowunls club, "that we need some sort of a national code or agreement agree-ment fixing more definite regulation! for Individual points of view. There Is an old expression that clrcum-. clrcum-. stances alter cases. It might have been broadened to Include the observation obser-vation that circumstances alter point! of view, and that what a man thinks and feels one moment may be wholly foreign to his mental reactions the next. "Take, for example, the man who drives his car downtown. All the way down, and while he Is going through the business district, he Is motor minded. He toots his horn for pedestrians to get out of the way and fumes If the sign changes sooner than he expected. But the moment he parks his car and begins to walk his point of view changes, and he becomes pedestrian minded. He is severely critical of motorists who do exactly what he did a few minutes before. Now then, It seem to me that there ought to be a middle ground somewhere. Such persons and that means all of us should be more tolerant of pedestrians when they are driving, and Inclined to be broader minded when they are walk-- walk-- Ing. "I know a citizen who becomes furious fu-rious when he finds that a lawn sprinkler is throwing water where he has to pass. But when he reaches his own home he is likely, In season, to start the sprinkler going, and the spray causes pedestrians to go Into the street to avoid a wetting. I know men who permit their shrubbery shrub-bery to cover most of the sidewalk, and who declare that the shrubbery of other like-minded citizens should be torn out by the roots. Every day we see men and women do things they do not want others to do. It Is proper for them, it seems, to take up enough room in a street car for two persons. If they see somebody else do it they declare that something should be done about it. Maybe the Golden Rule would be code enough for all of us, but we seem to be off the golden standard, and I have mentioned men-tioned the matter here today in the hope that some of you gentlemen might suggest a way out of our difficulties." diffi-culties." Indianapolis News. |