Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014I Tim 4:2<\/i><\/p>\n
2243<\/b> Down Trend In U. S. <\/b><\/p>\n
In 1924 Liberty<\/i> magazine sent out 100 letters to people selected at random throughout the U.S., enclosing $1 bill, saying it was an adjustment of an error which the addressed had complained of\u2014which really did not exist. Of the 100 recipients, 27 returned the dollar, saying it was a mistake. <\/p>\n
Then in 1971, Liberty<\/i> again conducted the same test. But now only 13 returned the money! <\/p>\n
2244<\/b> Errant Federal Officials<\/b><\/p>\n
More than 1,000 key officials from county sheriff to US Vice President were brought to the bar of justice between 1970\u20131976 on federal charges growing out of bribery, kickbacks, extortion and similar schemes. This does not include people cited for violating State and local laws. <\/p>\n
2245<\/b> $233M For Bribes<\/b><\/p>\n
Tokyo (UPI)\u2014Major Japanese companies spent an estimated $233 million in the three years ending in June 1976, for political contributions, bribes and payments to secret agents, the National Tax Office said. <\/p>\n
The survey covered 25,000 firms capitalized at $170,000 or more. <\/p>\n
According to the survey, unaccounted money totalled about $85 million in business year 1973 starting in July about $69 million and in 1974 about $79 million. <\/p>\n
Of the amount about seven million was used for political contributions. Commissions accounted for about $13 million and expense accounts about six million dollars, the survey revealed. <\/p>\n
2246<\/b> Government\u2019s Right To Lie<\/b><\/p>\n
In an article in the Saturday Evening Post<\/i> appeared an article \u201cThe Government Has the Right to Lie\u201d by Arthur Sylvester, assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968. \u201cIf I had been living in the early 19th Century in what was then our Country\u2019s West, and had been a religious man, I am sure I would have taken my stand with the Lying Baptists against the Truthful Baptists.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was referring to an incident in 1804 in Kentucky when some Baptists were disputing whether they should tell the truth and possibly sacrifice the life of a child in so doing, or whether, they should lie to the marauding Indians and possibly save the child. <\/p>\n
2247<\/b> \u201cI Often Lie\u201d\u2014Judge<\/b><\/p>\n
When Canada\u2019s Justice Landreville of the Ontario Supreme Court admitted before a Senate-Commons investigating committee that \u201cI often lie on minor matters,\u201d many Canadians were shocked. A man who is vested with the responsibility for handing out justice, and who had often commanded those before the bar to \u201ctell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God,\u201d had himself handled the truth loosely. <\/p>\n
2248<\/b> Keeping Uncle Sam Honest<\/b><\/p>\n
A \u201cTruth in Government Act\u201d proposed by Representative Donald M. Fraser (D-Minn. ) would make it illegal for federal officials to lie to private citizens. Right now, Fraser says, honesty is a one-way street. \u201cUnder current law, it is a crime for a private citizen to lie to a government official, but not for a government official to lie to the people.\u201d Perhaps officials should take an oath of honesty when they are sworn in. <\/p>\n
2249<\/b> Joe Namath In Pantyhose? <\/b><\/p>\n
Washington (UPI)\u2014Under new advertising guidelines proposed by the Federal Trade Commission, celebrities actually would have to use the products they endorse in television commercials. <\/p>\n
Otherwise, the sponsor would be subject to deceptive advertising charges. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf Joe Namath says he eats Maypo for breakfast every morning, he has to eat Maypo,\u201d said one FTC spokesman by way of illustration. <\/p>\n
However, another FTC official said it hadn\u2019t been determined whether Namath would have to start wearing pantyhose if he continued to appear in pantyhose commercials. <\/p>\n
And here\u2019s another problem: Since Namath is trading on his reputation as a football star in making commercials, would he be required to wear pantyhose during the games? <\/p>\n
2250<\/b> Shortchanging: Billion-Dollar Business<\/b><\/p>\n
Bilking consumers out of pennies has now become a billion-dollar business. The National Observer<\/i> noted that short weighing on food, gasoline, home fuel oil, packaged hardware items, and pills cost the American public some six to twelve billion dollars per year. In an effort to curb this swindle, whether accidental or intentional, many states are spot-checking weighs and measures. <\/p>\n
Pennsylvania investigators discovered that 15.5 percent of all prepackaged foods checked were short-weighted, with some stores shorting on 25 percent of the packages checked. A three-day Kansas investigation turned up evidence that 30 percent of all meat packaged in eleven stores were short-weighted. <\/p>\n
In Arkansas, officials checked one-pound cans of vegetables to find none that contained sixteen ounces. And Tennessee officials found prepackaged pork chops short-weighted by up to thirty-one cents. Officials have tabulated forty-eight ways to cheat in weighing meat in front of customers, and many markets are apparently using some of them. <\/p>\n
\u2014C. R. Hembree<\/p>\n
2251<\/b> Fooling Some Is Profitable<\/b><\/p>\n
A Washington merchant has gone Lincoln one better with this sign in his shop window: \u201cYou can fool some of the people some of the time, and, generally speaking, that\u2019s enough to allow for profit.\u201d<\/p>\n
2252<\/b> Honor System For Tolls Failed<\/b><\/p>\n
During the summer of 1970, the state of Delaware experimented with the honor system for twenty days on the Delaware Turnpike. Motorists without exact change at the automatic toll booth were allowed to take appropriately-addressed envelopes and mail in the money. <\/p>\n
But in twenty days, of more than 26,000 envelopes taken, only 582 were returned, according to the Associated Press<\/i>. And of those that were returned, some contained stamps and pieces of paper instead of money. The experiment cost the state about $4,000 before it was discontinued. And that didn\u2019t include lost tolls. <\/p>\n
2253<\/b> Right To Copy During Exams<\/b><\/p>\n
Peking (AFP)\u2014The People\u2019s Daily<\/i> devoted a full page in 1975 to high school students in Shanghai who sparked off a miniature Cultural Revolution by demanding the right to copy from their neighbors during examinations. <\/p>\n
The trouble began when two young Red Guards at Chung Shan high school copied from one of their friends during a mathematics exam. Their teacher, a woman, gave them zero marks and ordered them to make a self-criticism. <\/p>\n
This brought a storm of protest from the other students who began covering their walls with big letter slogans\u2014similar to those of the Cultural Revolution\u2014which eventually won them the support of local party officials. <\/p>\n
The People\u2019s Daily<\/i> quoted one of the students who was caught copying as saying, \u201cI do not think the final exam results are as important as the ability to master a practical problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cThe teacher was unable to accept the idea that students should be able to normally exchange opinions during an examination, and this was opposed to the ideas of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung on education.\u201d<\/p>\n
The student went on: \u201cI had not understood, so I asked my fellow students for help and this enabled me to understand. Therefore, why should we be expected to answer questions by repeating simply what we have learned by heart?\u201d<\/p>\n
2254<\/b> Ready-To-Go Term Papers<\/b><\/p>\n
Sunday, 8:15 p.m. A junior at the University of Miami walks into the dingy third-floor office of \u201cUniversal International Termpapers Limited, Inc.\u201d He scribbles out his order and hands it to the clerk. \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d she says, \u201cWe don\u2019t have that paper in stock. We\u2019ll have to order it.\u201d The clerk dials the firm\u2019s main office in Boston and then attaches the telephone receiver to a copying machine. A few minutes later, page after page of an impressively researched paper, transmitted from Boston, rolls off the copier. <\/p>\n
\u2014Time<\/i><\/p>\n
2255<\/b> Even Guarantees An A Grade<\/b><\/p>\n
There are several organizations which sell ready-made term papers to students. The largest is probably \u201cTerm Papers Unlimited\u201d which employs 200 persons as writers. <\/p>\n
Usual rate is $3 a page, although a doctoral dissertation can run $7 a page. <\/p>\n
For an extra price, they will also guarantee a certain grade! <\/p>\n
2256<\/b> Two Exams Every Time<\/b><\/p>\n
In Moody Monthly<\/i> recently, George Sweeting writes about the desperate need for honesty in our culture. He refers to Dr. Madison Sarratt, who taught mathematics at Vanderbilt University for many years. Before giving a test, the professor would admonish his class something like this:<\/p>\n
\u201cToday I am giving two examinations one in trigonometry and the other in honesty. I hope you will pass them both. If you must fail one, fail trigonometry. There are many good people in the world who can\u2019t pass trig, but there are no good people in the world who cannot pass the examination of honesty.\u201d<\/p>\n
2257<\/b> John Hopkins Stops Honor System<\/b><\/p>\n
John Hopkins University in Baltimore has always believed that encouraging self-discipline was part of its task of education. Students were honor-bound both not to cheat and were expected to report on their peers who did. But as in many other places, honor seems to be in short supply at Hopkins these days. Cheating rose to the point that the school felt forced to abandon the honor system, under which it had operated for sixty-one years. From now on cheating will be prevented by policing. <\/p>\n
\u2014Christianity Today<\/i><\/p>\n
2258<\/b> West Point\u2019s \u201cHarder Right\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
The following quotation is from the \u201cCadet Prayer.\u201d It is repeated every Sunday in chapel services at West Point:<\/p>\n
\u201cMake us choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be contented with half truth when whole truth can be won. Endow us with courage that is born of loyalty to all that is noble and worthy, that scorns to compromise with vice and injustice and knows no fear when right and truth are in jeopardy.\u201d<\/p>\n
2259<\/b> Teacher Graduated Himself<\/b><\/p>\n
Minola, N.Y. (AP)\u2014A New Hampshire school teacher was charged with switching university records in his undergraduate days to give himself passing grades in courses he flunked. When he still couldn\u2019t earn cap and gown, he forged his own graduation papers. <\/p>\n
The complaint asserted that Tilson typed into university records a notation that he received a degree, enabling him to secure a teaching post at the Campton, N.H., Elementary School. <\/p>\n
Tilson got caught, police said, because he used the wrong typewriter. <\/p>\n
Tilson, married and the father of one, moved to Wentworth, N.H., Elementary School, to take the job teaching grades five through eight. The academic pressures apparently were not eased any by Tilson trying to work his way through college as a night watchman on the campus. His grades suffered. <\/p>\n
But, determined to pass his courses, Tilson would enter the registrar\u2019s office at the end of each semester, during his nightly watchman rounds, detectives said. There, he changed his flunking grades to passing\u2014and finally graduated himself by typing a degree notation on his record last June, police stated. <\/p>\n
A Hofstra clerk noticed during a routine records check that the \u201cDegree Granted\u201d phrase was in a typeface different from the one usually used. Another clerk, informed of this, remembered that Tilson\u2019s name had appeared on a list of non-graduates. <\/p>\n
2260<\/b> Shark Delivers Evidence<\/b><\/p>\n
An American vessel named Nancy<\/i>, suspected of carrying contraband, was seized by a British revenue cutter in 1799 and taken into Port Royal. Before it was boarded, however, the crew disposed of the forbidden part of the cargo and the captain likewise threw overboard the ship\u2019s papers, substituting a faked set he had prepared for such an emergency. <\/p>\n
At the trial he and the officers were about to be acquitted of the charge of smuggling, for lack of evidence, when the master of another cutter walked into the court with the Nancy\u2019s<\/i> original papers. His men had discovered them in the stomach of a shark they had harpooned that morning. Consequently, the defendants were convicted. <\/p>\n
Today, these documents, called \u201cThe Shark\u2019s Papers,\u201d are on exhibition in the Institute of Jamaica in Kingston, and the shark\u2019s head is preserved in the Royal United Service Institution in London. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
2261<\/b> Clergy\u2019s Consistent \u201cMistake\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
Internal Revenue officials were somewhat suspicious about a deduction claim on a clergyman\u2019s form: $450 for a \u201cclerical collar.\u201d Despite the leapfrogging cost of living, that seemed a little out of line. <\/p>\n
Called to account for his costly collar, the minister said he had made an innocent mistake: $450 should have been $4.50. Understanding IRS men let the clergyman pay the extra tax\u2014plus 6 percent interest. <\/p>\n
But one shrewd auditor had a second guess. Sure enough, a scrutiny of past income-tax returns revealed that the minister consistently had trouble with decimals. For three years in a row things like $4.50 came out $450 in the deductions column. For this, the red-faced cleric paid added taxes, 6 percent interest\u2014and a 50 percent penalty for fraud. <\/p>\n
2262<\/b> Delivering (To His) Home The Mail<\/b><\/p>\n
Postman Frank Sosienski of Louisville, Ky., had some mail he didn\u2019t want to deliver, so in a six-year period he packed 15 tons of it in 1,200 bags and stacked them in his attic. When the mail was finally uncovered, Sosienski was charged with delaying mail intended for delivery. <\/p>\n
Firemen fighting a blaze in a house in Newington, Conn., found thousands of pieces of undelivered mail in the attic of a two-family house. One of the occupants was a mail carrier. The mail was put in a trailer measuring 40 feet by 10 feet and covered its floor to a height of four feet. <\/p>\n
\u2014Prairie Overcomer<\/i><\/p>\n
2263<\/b> Preacher With Empty Church<\/b><\/p>\n
Once when the famous Bishop Warren A. Candler was preaching to a large audience, he used as his text the story of Ananias and Sapphira, who told a lie to God and were struck dead. The old bishop roared: \u201cGod doesn\u2019t strike people dead for lying like He used to. If He did, where would I be?\u201d When his audience snickered a bit, he roared back, \u201cI tell you where I would be. I would be right here preaching to an empty house!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Optimist Magazine<\/i><\/p>\n
2264<\/b> Bribes Are Deductible<\/b><\/p>\n
The Internal Revenue Service official taxpayers\u2019 guide advises: \u201cBribes and kickbacks to nongovernmental officials are deductible unless the individual has been convicted of making the bribe or has entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Says an IRS expert: \u201cSuppose a guy gets a kickback from an insurance broker for referring customers to him. Unless he\u2019s convicted or pleads guilty or nolo contendere (no contest), the broker is entitled to a deduction.\u201d The ancient institution of bribery has finally been institutionalized, achieving formal Government recognition. <\/p>\n
2265<\/b> Fooling Even The Wife<\/b><\/p>\n
Margaret Fielty, a director of adult education in Fitchburg, Mass., in recalling various cases with which she has dealt, tells of a man who came to her, admitting that even his wife didn\u2019t know he couldn\u2019t read. For eleven years he had been holding a newspaper for an hour every night, pretending to read it. Finally, he just couldn\u2019t stand it any more. <\/p>\n
2266<\/b> Technical Smuggling<\/b><\/p>\n
Customs appraisers at the Manila International Airport intercepted 890 pieces of tar gard cigaret filters and 480 bottles of perfumes said to be misdeclared \u201cpasalubong\u201d or Christmas gifts brought in by a returning resident. Under the existing program, returning residents are granted tax-exempt privilege on personal items. The goods were said to be worth $6,000. <\/p>\n
2267<\/b> Which Tire? <\/b><\/p>\n
Down in Jackson, Mississippi, three boys arrived in school late. It was as late as 10:00 a.m. They had been fishing. For their excuse they stated that they were delayed because of a flat tire. The teacher decided to give them a test immediately, so she had them seated apart from one another. She said, \u201cThis test will have only one question, and I will give you thirty seconds to put down your answer.\u201d The question was, \u201cWhich tire?\u201d<\/p>\n
The teacher was pretty sharp. There is no question as to the result of the test. The boys were shown to be liars. <\/p>\n
\u2014Maurice Dametz<\/p>\n
2268<\/b> No Longer Seeing<\/b><\/p>\n
An old woman whose sight was bad offered her doctor a fee to cure her. He treated her with ointment, and after each application, while her eyes were closed, he kept stealing her possessions one by one. When he had removed them all he said that the cure was completed and demanded the fee agreed upon. <\/p>\n
The woman, however, refused to pay; so he summoned her before the magistrates. Her defense was that she promised to pay the money if he cured her sight; but after his treatment it got worse. \u201cBefore he began, I could see all the things in the house and now I can\u2019t see anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Fables of Aesop<\/i><\/p>\n
2269<\/b> From Promotion To Discharge<\/b><\/p>\n
In a certain bank there was a trust department in which four young men and one older man were employed. It was decided by the directors that they would promote the older employee and also promote one of the younger men to have charge of the trust department after the older gentleman was removed to his new position. After considering the merits of each of the men, one of the four younger men was selected for the new position and to receive a substantial increase in salary. It was decided to notify him of the promotion that afternoon at four o\u2019clock. <\/p>\n
At the noon hour the young man went to a cafeteria for lunch. One of the directors was behind him in the line with several other customers in between. The director saw the young man select his food including a small piece of butter. The butter, he flipped on his plate, and threw some food on top of it to hide it from the cashier. In this way he lied to the cashier about what was on his plate. <\/p>\n
That afternoon the directors met to notify the young man that they had intended giving him the promotion, but that because of what had been seen in the cafeteria, they must discharge him. They felt that they could not have as the head of their trust department one who would lie and steal. <\/p>\n
\u2014Earl C. Willer<\/p>\n
2270<\/b> He Dared Not Face Music<\/b><\/p>\n
A man was able to join the Emperor of China\u2019s orchestra, although he could not play a note. Whenever the group played, he would hold his flute against his lips, not daring even to blow softly for fear he might cause a discord. He received a modest salary and was able to live comfortably. <\/p>\n
One day, the emperor happened to desire that each musician play for him solo. The flutist became desperate. He tried to take quick professional lessons but to no avail, but he really had no ear for music. He pretended to be sick, but the Royal Physician who attended him knew better, causing him to be increasingly apprehensive. <\/p>\n
On the day of his solo appearance, he took poison rather than face the music. From this comes the old Chinese proverb: \u201cHe dared not face the music.\u201d<\/p>\n
2271<\/b> Epigram On Honesty<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. <\/p>\n
\u2014Webster<\/p>\n
\u2022 When Aristotle, who was a Grecian Philosopher, and the tutor of Alexander the Great, was once asked what a man could gain by uttering falsehoods, he replied, \u201cNot to be credited when he shall tell the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 A lie travels around the world while Truth is putting on her boots. <\/p>\n
\u2014Spurgeon<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Air Force cadets\u2019 Honor Code: \u201cI will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor will I tolerate anyone who does.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 In the honor system the professors have the honor and the students have the system. <\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Integrity ; Truth ; John 8:44; Rom. 13:13; II Thess. 2:11; I Tim. 4:1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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