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• The other three laughed at the very
idea of morality in business. One said
a man had to decide between principles
and profit. The second said that Roosevelt
preached morality in business but
did not dare try to practice it. The third
said that religion is now obsolete and he
had no time for dead issues.
Then, I studied the business record of
those five men. This showed that they
were the ones who had abandoned their
own business policy and their regular
customers the instant trouble or hope of
a large but unmoral profit appeared.
Also, of the five two headed properties
which had no standing. One had passed
through a fire of suspicious origin anrj
had become a bankrupt when no one
believed he had failed. One was prosperous
because he had a clean organization
behind him. The fifth was, admittedly,
a great success. Of him it was
said:
"He is the cleverest man in his line.
He has to be clever to keep out of
jail."
In October, 1916, a woman at the
head of a department of a big school at
Evanston, Illinois, announced to the students
one morning that the floor of the
chapel had been refinished and waxed
that dances might be held there in future.
One of the students exclaimed, when he
heard the announcement:
"Gee, wouldn't the old Methodists,
who started this school, turn over in their
graves if they could hear that?"
The woman who made that announcement
hastened to explain to the reporters
:
"Times have changed, you know, since
this school was founded. Young people
are going to dance; there is no use trying
to prevent them, for everyone is dancing
now. If they must learn, I prefer it
should be here under proper influences."
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