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Show Well to Think Before Taking "Direct Action" A French film actor has just been i sentenced to six months' imprisonment imprison-ment for assaulting two strangers in the streets of Paris. He explained that he did it "because he did not like their faces." His fate may deter others from making similar experiments, but a good many people may sympathize with another form of "direct action" tried by a lady in a New York bus. When the driver failed to stop the vehicle at her request, she "politely took his hat and threw it out of the window." But here, too, there are a good many possible "snags," and the example ex-ample is hardly ont to be followed. Too hasty a reaction to things that annoy us is, indeed, usually a mistake. A British mother discovered discov-ered that the other day when she thrashed her fifteen-year-old son because be-cause he came home soaking wet. She thought he had fallen Into the local canal really he had jumped in to rescue a younger boy "who was in danger of drowning. London Answers. |