Edith Scrivani - PAY UP !

  After reading about the 77 year old Edith Scrivani's credit card

    debts in the Providence Journal today ( " Woman's Powerball winnings too

    late for some bill collectors " , front page.. Nov.11 )  , I must urge

    this extraordinarily LUCKY woman : PAY UP !

             It is never too late demonstrate personal integrity, no matter

    what the letter of the law.

         All her credit cards - a national madness, I understand - suggest a

    extremely self-indulgent person. Yes, even the Godfather, Don Corleone,

    looked out for friends and relatives. Character is more often seen in the

    way we deal with non-family people.

            Let me say - a little sardonically - that a now famous rabbi should

    begin writing another book : " When Good Things Happen To Bad People ".

            Edith, you are 77 years old . The only thing you can take with

    you is an honorable life - spent, ALL PAID FOR !