Show COURAGE VS ls DECENCY the other lay day nn ail excited individual rushed in ill to a newspaper news paper office with a choice bit of scandal burning liis bis tongue it made no difference to this person bersot that tin tho scandal affected afFect cd tl alio 0 daughter daug liter of his neighbor 0 that the mother inot lier of tle girl was seriously ill that the brother was just entering what promised to bo be a successful pro fess ional career the scandal ras as rich in ill flavor and lie he wanted waited to in see it in ill the paper ue tola acol 1 the editor about it with every evidence of the keen relish of the scandal connoisseur lut impressed upon the newspaper nian man that tile the source of his information must be kept inviolably secret when the paper came out tile the nian man returned to deni demandil anil vly tile the story had not been printed short sharp words follo followed weil and the visitor called the editor a coward CO ward and left vowing that a man who way was a fraid to print the news had tit no right to be an ail editor to our mind that editor was a brave man inan the informer who dc awn that his name be kept secret was the coward the editor ran a paper in a small town so closely related were the lives of the inhabitants that the editor knew every detail of tile story before his visitor called on oil him but lie he could see no profit for himself nor glory for foi his paper in printing an ail item that would bring sorrow to the gray grav hairs of a father disgrace to a brother and probably St rious consequences to a sick mother it if the news appe of his readers were so BO voracious lie thought as to del demand liand tin this s costly food lie he would refuse to pay the alie price the edkor editor was right mar alaby things lio lie lias has to print it lie would rather leave unsaid but the scandal which lias has only its spice to recommend it should have no place in the columns of it a s df respecting res paper we would rather build than tear down we would rather eather print tile alio things that help and encourage and uplift than hall to hold up the mistakes of gome ennie unfortunate to the scorn and contempt of liis his neighbors decency is not the lack jack of courage if it were we would rather be decent than courageous |