STOLEN TOWELS

Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 292, 27 August 1923, Page 2

STOLEN TOWELS

FROM TRAMWAYS MESS-ROOMS.

A report issued last week by Mr. D. McGillivray, traffic manager of the tramways, discloses a form of petty theft from the tramways mess-room at the Lambton station. The report, which is characteristic, says: — “ ‘The value of any education is not whether we know more of certain filings, book or otherwise, than the other fellow, but what intelligence, wisdom and character we develop by its moans.’ I suppose most of us, when we first heard the old saying, ‘He who steals my purse steals trash,’ did not realise its full significance, and it is to be feared that there are certain persons grown to man’s estate who do not realise it yet, for within the last seven weeks, five towels have disappeared from the Lambton mess-room.

. . . He who steals a piece of toweling does indeed steal trash, the loss to the department is paltrv in comparison to the loss of the thief; for what does it profit him if he gains a filthy towel and lose his own self-respect?” “This is one of the lessons thieves have Vet to learn. I suppose there are very few men, and the writer does not claim to be one of them, who have not at some time or another committed some form of theft, were it only mother’ jam, getting what comfort they could in later days from the fact that at the time they knew no better. But one of the most important lessons' in life, more important even than the three R’s, is the. undoubted fact that honesty is the best policy, and thieving does not pay. Tin’s is not a sermon; it is not a threat. Let us say it is a warning, and in the meantime let it go at that.”