Caption: Commencement - 1925
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tion. So some of their fellow citizen i lay the matter befoi them and urge them to make ad< |uate appropri tion8. Oth rs are unwilling to urge ad |uate BUppOIl of a publl( institution be( LUSe their s tlS or daughl have been under the discipline of the university. Some who urge tin upport of the institution ask the officers of the institution for personal tavors tor particular constituents in the student body which i HI not be granted to all in the student body, Jones wants to he told that his daughter will be assured a room in the Woman's Residence Hall in advance of others whose applications are already on file. Jones asks this because he is influential in his community and may be able to influence a vote. Smith speaks a good word for the university. Jiut Smith publishes a paper and thinks he should have some university advertising as a recompense. ]>ro\vn is a manufacturer of some kind of apparatus or equipment used by the public institutions. He has helped elect Williams to some board and therefore Williams ought to favor him in awarding contracts. Xow the kind of thing of which 1 have given a few homely illustrations constitutes what I call taking tips. It is the use of public office to give personal favors, or the payment for support of a public officer or institution by giving personal favors. There are more forms of bribery than the handing over of money. Public office is still a public trust. T h e authority and resources of a public office or institution may never rightfully be used for private gain or to promoti individual purposes, to pay personal debts of any kind. When Louis XI of Franc e abused the hospitality of his host, the Duke o\ f Burgundy, 1 winning Comines, the so-called greal eduator, over to treasonable views by flattery, he was bribin t h e p h i l r opher ai much as il he had passed him a handful >ld. 1 tv. en the iwo extremes there are many intern< liate forms of bribery. Fvery attempt to \:ci a special I ivilege foi any individual at the public vpense is a i n i l > bribery. It is a bl ch of tin it on the part of the otlicer f who i ir ty to it. It is a betrayal of the ideal of citizen ship nece88ary for every true citizen of a democratic re- I 7 )
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