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TRUMAS July 1954 "NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE" PUBLIC SERVICE Most men when they reach the age to begin to think, that is from 17 to 24, want to come to an immediate conclusion as to their future place in the world. Some have been good students of history and biography - most have not. Some accept the "get by" theory, a great many honestly want to make good on merit and ability. Some become great financiers and big business men by sharp practice, some work through the great professions, medicine and law by the same methods. But there are honorable men in all walks of life, in fact honest men far out number the men of sharp practice. Honest men in the legal and medical professions have arranged a code of ethics which, if followed there would be no sharp practice in either of those professions. In politics which is the science of government men have been discussing right and wrong and the rights of the individual since the time of the great giser Babylonian law gives Hammurabi; Moses the great law giver of the Hebrews Aristotle whose essay on politics has scarcely been equaled, St. Paul and the Gospels, St. Thomas Aquinas, Marcus Aurelius Antonius, Justinian, Michiaseli, the origins of the British Common law and the Code Napoleon.