Show OUR GREATEST DANGER herbert hoovers most recent major address dealt with the subject of honor in public life in the course of it the ex president said this dishonor in public life has a double poison when people are I 1 dibono dishonorable rable in private I 1 business they injure only those with whom thoy they deal or their own chances in the next world but when there is a lack of honor in government the morals of the whole people are poisoned our strength is not in politics prices or oi production or price controls our strength lies in spiritual concepts it lies in public sensitiveness L to 0 evil the issue is decency in public life against i indecency na our greatest danger is not from invasion by foreign armies our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior or by cynical acceptance of dishonor these evils have I 1 I 1 defeated nations many times in human history 1 the redemption of mankind by america willi will depend upon our ability to cope with these evils right here at home remember that next time you read of five per centers mink coat and deepfreeze deep freeze gifts to government officials and employed emp loyes sordid tie ups between politicians and gamblers and morally indefensible fen sible activities within the and other government i agencies these things are terrible symbols of moral decay decad As mr hoover has eloquently i warned that decay could destroy us more sui surely ely than any f foreign enemy |