![]() ![]() It's more likely that an honest, earnest young man, well-raised by his family and community, instinctively did the right thing, and in his own way wove the social fabric just a bit tighter. It's unlikely that the 14-year-old fisherman was considering this constellation of data points when his integrity test emerged from the lake. (Journalists score a bit higher at - gulp - 23%).Ī less recent, but still telling, Pew Research Center poll from 2019 on "Trust and Distrust in America" suggests that "Many Americans think declining trust in the government and each other makes it harder to solve key problems." Only one other calling - teaching high school - gets more than half of Americans' approval, and the other 13 are often well below 50%, including the lowest two: Members of Congress and telemarketers, who both dial in at less than 10%. While impressive, that's down 10 percentage points from the early pandemic high, just as doctors and pharmacists, the second- and third-highest professions, are sharply off their previous peaks. Nurses still lead all 18 surveyed professions, with 79% of Americans rightly saying they have "very high" or "high" ethical standards. Multiple professions have near- or record-low ethics ratings, according to this year's edition of the annual Gallup poll. In politics, to be sure, as schoolbook tales of "Honest Abe" and "I cannot tell a lie" George Washington yield to today's news narrative of former President Donald Trump's four indictments and congressional scrutiny over current President Joe Biden's business dealings.īut politics is hardly the only endeavor experiencing a crisis of confidence among Americans. But honesty, while always the best policy, isn't always a priority these days. Of course, this story should not by rights fit Britannica's definition of something so strange as to seem improbable. Money that Denney told Connor to keep as a reward for his honesty, but the Halsa family refused. The second more profound marvel is what young Connor and his cousin, Brandon Klipping, did next: They separated the wet bills, dried them out on the boat's dashboard, and without hesitation went to work with Connor's aunt, Christine Klipping of Red Lake Falls, to track down the rightful owner and return the money. The first wonderment in this true fish tale is just the odds of hooking a sunken, small wallet in a lake 70 miles long and 60 miles wide. ![]() currency and a business card from a livestock owner in western Wisconsin. If you are in need of fishing supplies you will find no greater store of equipment to suit your needs anywhere else.Opinion editor's note: Editorials represent the opinions of the Star Tribune Editorial Board, which operates independently from the newsroom.Ī fish tale, according to the Britannica Dictionary, is "a story that is so strange or surprising that it seems very unlikely to be true." Which may be the natural reaction to the story reported on Monday about Connor Halsa, a 14-year-old angler from Moorhead who made quite a catch this summer on Lake of the Woods.įishing in 20 feet of choppy water, Halsa snagged not a walleye but a wallet that had been lost the previous year by Jim Denney, a livestock hauler from Mount Ayr, Iowa, just north of the Missouri border. Refkell: 'Have you told Nokki my tale? he is at Nogland, south of Thorin's Hall, along the road to the Low Lands.' Nokki: 'Another dish-tale from Rekfell? You are the third person this week to come from him with stories of a giant catch that managed to slip through his fingers. Refkell has asked that you visit Nokki and tell him of his latest catch. Noglond is south of Thorin's Hall, south and east of the Vale of Thrain, along the road to the Low Lands. Refkell is incredibly proud of his last catch and wishes to show it off to his friend. Tell him of my catch and see if he has caught any bigger.' 'I wish to inform Nokki of my latest catch, the largest I have ever seen and I daresay the largest ever caught in Ered Luin! It was enormous, I tell you - nearly a stone in weight! A pity that I don't have proof of my catch, for after I had the beast in my bucket it made a mighty leap and escaped back into the channel. Now that you have learned the ways of the fisherman, perhaps you could aid me in delivering a message to an old friend.
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