Excerpt from Funeral Service for Charles H. Swift: December 27, 1872-September 30, 1948

His outstanding characteristics, as we all know, were modesty, loyalty, kindness, generosity, public spirit, and a desperate determination to be fair. The only differences we ever had arose because of his unflinching insistence on seeing the other side, on finding some good in every badcharacter, on refusing to impute motives, even when they seemed perfectly Obvious to me. Positive, downright people who knew all the answers did not appeal to him, though he could usually find some good in them, too, and would patiently suggest to them that there might be some con siderations that they had overlooked. He would make earnest efforts, often at length, to point out to upholders of causes with which he agreed that there was something to be said on the other side and that it was their duty to take it into account.

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