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Show "Roses" Cover Up Variety of Sins Taking as her text, "netting away with it," a woman writer of note delivers de-livers the following short sermon, which we think our readers will ad rnlt contains some food for thought: 'I don't think I'd like to see any of these men go to the penitentiary.' "A girl said that about a gang of kidnapers who held her captive in a basement for twenty-nine hours until they collected from her father a ransom ran-som of $30,000. fmy ana eharmwTy know that the "atttf? , ' sharing fairly'?"? It tl , nuingaf'N or telling ler h!0S j '-i3 r;:;: the same system wh'00' V ' m.l,,,,,;"11""., away with it ns- - !s''' "They broke into her home and forced her to go with them, they shackled her with handcuffs and kept her in a basement, they filled her father with terror with threats of her fate If he did not pay, they robbed him of $30,000. And she would 'not like to see any of these men go to the penitentiary.' "Why? Well, they treated her 'with the utmost courtesy,' and one of them brought her a bouquet uf roses, so that she would harbor no 111 will. "Most of us would regard as a fatuous optimist a man who thought he could prevent ill will on the part of a girl he had so Injured by bringing bring-ing her roses. But it worked. He got away with it. "And in less extreme cases, people peo-ple are getting away with It every day. And probably some of us who are loudest in our questioning as to whether that girl could really be so idiotic are ourselves playing the fool for some one who covers up impo sition or abuse by" bringing us roses. "How many social parasites live on the bounty of friends and get away with it by sending them roses literally or the kind whose fragrance fra-grance is that of a delightful person- |