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Show ’ Senator From S andpi Dyrhna. ~ "No legacy By Ham Park is so fich as '. q a ae ee 6 of thy. a” ri fi; ge Pi , SR BO ya , of HN O- % 9 S:8 te "1 odFey! | table man came I had tod con: honesty.—Shakespeare. 2 Honesty’s the Best Policy Back in the age of innocence, when I- was a boy, fess my theft. Then have charged for the asked him what mama _ he weer, 4 pep- " pers. When he told her, she | made me take from the small store of coins I was saving 4 most parents taught their offspring to be #8338 2: to buy Fourth of July fire-— honestand - erackers twice the amount a truthful. Not . and give it to him. So I 7 only by word _ learned the hard way that of mouth, but | honesty is the best policy. by their own | actions. At In this cynical and sophisticated age the old- = least, my parents did, and | so did the parents of omy. © friends and as(iam sociates.In tributes ment ie are | of the high- that could of our population. A case in point is the ars : | ticle about Dean Martin, popular TV personality and the father of 7 children, that appeared in a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post. be paida person was to have it said that his word was as good as his bond. Mr. Martin doesn’t I STILL GET a twinge of conscience when I think of ‘the time virtues scoffed at by a certain seg- — Ham Park those days one est fashioned apparently think that personal — honesty and integrity are important attributes of character, for he says: “There I slipped from the path of honesty and let my parents down. You see, when © wasn’t much else for a kid to do except a little stealing: _ I was 6, I stole two red pepneckties, hubcaps—stuff like © pers — ‘from our vegetable that.’ But a little shoplift| man’s wagon. I thought they ing never hurt anybody. — were some new kind of fruit. Every kid has done his share ~ My sister, who was 3, saw of it in his me take them and said, “What will mama say?” I gave her one to keep After the gone, her vegetable man we took a gener- ous bite of the PERS SWow! Our li p S Frightened, mama thy. for we help _ to. sympa- I’d done, she gave us help but no sympathy. We spent the rest of the afternoon holding our | The a chunk of ice to tortured lips. next time the vege- such a good cus+ Everyone has a little larceny in hin, a - When I told her what to- tomer they don’t really care. they ran and it, but I’m va ‘and mouths felt like Were on fire! | Even dashery and spend $500, I steal a necktie or a pair of gloves: or a pair of socks. I’m sure the owners know ‘mouth shut. had time. day when I gointoa haber- Inal little bit of orig- sin; only some not too original. i, | IT HAS chief of ‘it's been said that the © disadvantage of | an honest heart is credulity. Well, Iam one who is credulous or naive enough to be- | lieve that the majority of people are honest and honorable. _ |
