Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — GENERAL BELIEF IN HONESTY [ARTICLE]

GENERAL BELIEF IN HONESTY

Something Very Like the Mllennlum Seems to Be Near In Great British Metropolis. How is the sudden trust Londoners have come to exhibit for each other to be accounted for? There is an extreme shortage of copper coins for small change in London, and one man says of his experiences: “On several occasions lately uews vendors who have been unable to change silver have said to me, ‘Never nttnd, pay me the next time you are this way.’ Only one of them knew me as a regular customer, Even more unexpected credit than this was offered me at a railway booking office where I tendered a shilling for a two-penny fare. Tin short of coppers,’ said the girl booking clerk, ‘pay me tomorrow.’ *But I shall not be here tomorrow,’ I replied. ‘Then pay me the next time you are here, whenever it is,’ she said. ‘But supposing I forget,’ I expostulated. “Oh, I know that you will come and pay me some day, she answered. Tve never known people fail.’ ” Similar testimony is offered by others, who tell of copper credit .thrust upon them by strangers, and often very poor and humble strangers.—London Mall.