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Thursday, March 10,1955 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE ZSL To Natch Strength With Blue Hose By MARCUS BACH Tb»ca—ntng estabUahment had a new look. A new feeling. There was a courteous attitude in the emploorees and a straightforward ness that made me want to ask 4 what had happened since last had been in fee place. Above fee filing cabinet I found a hint of the transformation. A placard proclaimed: Four-Way Test. u Mfed if I Jot feat down?" I asked fee girl who was waiting on me. - < <Go ahead," she said. "The boss had us aM learn it by heart" The only scrap of paper I could readily find in my pocket was a blank check. On the back of it I copied down the four points. A few days later I bought some articles in a men’s shop. As the clerk was putting my chpck into the cash drawer he noticed fee writing on fee back. I remembered it iwas my memo from fee clean- f mg establishment. ‘This might not go through,” he said. Then he paused to read the four points. "Say, that’s not bad< Care if I copy this off?" One day when 1 was in fee FINE FURNITURE Down Through Hie Years tTe. Jones Sons The Best for Over Fifty Tears CLINTON, S.C. Plus Thirteen Other Stores in South Carolina bmwuwnnannniiMiiwwwwMMMMi bank, a teller said, “You stopped our bookkeeping department re cently with some of your propa ganda. One of the girls brought out a check of yours and passed it around. I call that disrupting our routine." Then he added wife a smile, “1 Jotted down those four points, You know, they’re all right. How did they get started?” I discovered feat they "got started" with Herbert J. Taylor, Chicago businessman and presi dent of Rotary International He called them “The Four-Way Test" and informed me feat they came as an answer to prayer. Back in 1932, Taylor was given the assignment of saving fee Club Aluminum Company from being closed in bankruptcy. Being a deeply religious man he prayed— and worked. It occurred to him feat if fed company was to be saved it would have to develop some product which other com panies did not possess in equal amount. That ‘product,” accord ing to Taylor, was spiritual con sciousness. He was convinced that any business or any life which op erated according to laws of right and justice would simply have to succeed. “Our industry,” said Taylor, “like scores of other industries, had a code of ethics, but the code was long and almost impossible to memorize. I was inspired to search the Scriptures, both fee* Old Testament and the New. In one I found fee well-known ad monition, “Test all things, hold fast that which is good.’ Then I' read a message in Jeremiah in' which he clearly emphasized that the things worth while in life are loving-kindness, justice and right-. eousness. These are the principles; involved in fee Four-Way Test." Taylor himself was the first to put the four points to a teat Did they immediately work a special magic? He says they did not. When he brought them to bear upon the maze of problems that confronted him every working day, he often wondered whether they would prove practical and wise for the kind of age in which we live. He admits that he became discouraged with even the first challenge, “Is It the Truth?" He wondered whether, for example, advertising could be absolutely true. Could human relations be based on truth? Could a man spend a lifetime of living without 'resorting to falsehoods and a few little white lies? For sixty days he played fair with the Four-Way Test despite the jarring shocks of industrial life. Sixty days were enough to convince him that it is possible for a man in business, for any man, to be truthful and fair and to reject those conditions which do not build gqod will and'bene fit all concerned. Taylor tried it IS YOUR CHILD SICK? In March 1954 a lady brought her little son, 2Vi yean of age, to our office to see If there was any help for him through the Science of Chiropractic. She listed the follow ing com plaints: Extreme nervousness, 'loss of appetite, poor digestion, having 6 to 8 bowel movements per day, plus abnormal functioning of the pancreas. Also, the child had a constant cold, was extremely underweight, and was in general, run-down condition. After 3 months of Chiropractic Care in this office, all of the above symptoms completely disappeared. We now seo this child only once every 3 or 4 months, and he Is still in good health. HAVE YOU TRIED CHIROPRACTIC FOR YOUR CHILD? If YOU have any Health Problem call now for a consultation with— DR. J. W. JONES, JR. Chiropractor 702 E. Ferguson St. (Prather Circle) • Phone 608-M Clinton, S. C. STEPPING STONES TO HOME OWNERSHIP If you’ve found the home you want and can make the down payment, the next step is to get the right loan. Our mortgage loan plan is worked out to fit your budget. You repay your loan in monthly payments which may include taxes and insurance. And there’s no red tape when you finance your home here! ederal Savings [AND LOAN ASSOCIATION A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 No. S and it worked. It worked in rais ing fee standard of business eth ics. It created- better public re lations. I buiH up trade and a new clientele. It became a new potential for success. Taylor now felt qualified to discuss fee, Test idea wife his de partment beads. Interestingly enough, these men represented a cross section of religions. They in cluded a Roman Catholic, a Pres byterian, a Christian Scientist and an Orthodox Jew. But here was a code feat cut across denomina tional lines. The men decided to give fee Four-Way Test a chance. They started checking company plans and policies against the twenty- four words. From here fee Test was passed along to company em ployees who were asked not only to memorize the words but to a|>ply them in their industrial re lations. “Ttiia use of the Four-Way Test," Taylor reported, ‘caused us to change many of our policies. We eliminated all adverse or de trimental comments about our competitors’ products from our ad vertisements and literature. When we found an opportunity to speak well of our competitors we did so. The application of the Test to our relations with our own personnel and that of our customers helped us to win their friendship and good wiU. We have learned that the confidence of those wife whom we deal and associate is essential to permanent success.” Nearly twenty-four years of testing have put their stamp of approval on the twenty-four words. Taylor’s company, which in 1932 was ready to close shop, paid its debts in full and has paid its stockholders over a million dol lars in dividends. Rotary International has dis tributed copies of the Four-Way Test to people all over the globe. Rotary headquarters has copy-; righted it‘so it will not be abused, but they offer it freely to every one and every industry which will try to put the philosophy to work. It is Taylor’s belief that the Test could transform this old world into the kind of place we all secretly dream it might one day be. All that is needed is for enough people to learn the words and live them. The man on the street, the farmer in his field, the worker at his job, the mother in 4 her home, the minister in his pulpit, the businessman at his desk, politician and voter, teacher and student, rich and poor, wise and unwise—all of us are invited to look at the four points again and give them a try: 1. It it the TRUTH? 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned? 3. Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? 4. WiU it be BENEFICIAL to aU concerned? Shall we try it? American Legion's 36th Birthday Set For March 15-17 Local legionnaires are observ ing the 36th anniversary of the birth of the. American Legion which occurs March 15-17. The American Legion has 17,- 200 posts, most of which are making elaborate plans for cele brating the organization’s 1955 birthday. The Legion was founded at a caucus of delegates from fee 1st AEF in Paris, France, March 15, 1919.♦ It is the only American veter an’s organization founded over seas by fighting men and wom en. It includes today eligible veterans of World War 1, World War II and of the Korean war. As part of the nationwide birthday program, the local post is intensifying its 1966 member ship activity. The organization is now riding the greatest mem bership crest in all its history. National Commander Seaborn P. Collins has celled on aU Ameri can Legion posts to push the 1955 enrollment over fee 3,000,000 mark by March 15. S. C. Revenues Show Drop Protect MiH Industry, SouHi's Ginners Urge Atlanta—Southern cotton gin ners called on Congress and fee administration today to take “fee greatest precaution in the legis lating or administering of any foreign trade or foreign agricul tural program” which might ad versely affect this country’s tex tile manufacturing industry. 'Hie action was taken during the joint annual convention 'of the Alabama-Florida, Georgia and Carolines Cotton Ginners associa tions, attended by approximately 750 persons. Virginia cotton gin ners are included in the Carolines association. The ginners adopted a resolution urging feat no action be taken “which .would tend to curtail do mestic mill consumption of cot ton, or which would in any man ner obstruct efforts of the textile industry to expand its use of cot ton and of goods made of United States cotton.” Action of fee ginners came as efforts were being made by the administration and some Congres sional leaders to increase fee Pres ident’s tariff-cutting powers. The U. S. textile industry contends that any further reduction of tex tile tariffs would threaten it wife destructions. The ginners said cotton agricul ture and fee ginning industry “would stand to suffer if Ameri can mills were to be injured, li quidated or transferred to foreign areas." They added that expend ed imports induced by lowering of the tariff would “result in greater consumption by the American pub lic of foreign-made fabrics manu factured from foreign cottons, while at fee same time displacing American jobs and fee use of American cotton in American mills." Subscribe To THE CHRONICLE Knows His Home After Short Stay Decatur, 111.—Skippy, a little mongrel dog who came north from Biloxi, Miss., with his mas ter, Bill Sewell, for a visit with relatives, disappeared and was missing for 18 days. Then one evening he was whining at the front door of fee James Weilepp home, where he had lived for only one day. Columbia — A need for new revenues, recognized by the Leg islature in proposed new taxes, is reflected in February state in come of 9 1-2 million dollars. This is almost $1 million less than for the month a year ago.' Principal offenders in fee drop are the $1,201,764 income tax, off $651,000; the corporation license tax, cut a year ago effective this year down $247,000 to $55,000; and the electric power tax, off $124,000 fe $98,166. The sales tax showed a gain of more than $80,000 at $3^204,563. And beer, wine and liquor taxes almost held their own at about $900,000. For the fiscal year since last July 1, the drop in state govern ment income is about 2 1-2 mil lion, to about 82 million. State officials predicted in come would be off $3 million this year, against which a $3 million reserve was set aside. Gray Funeral Home < Union. S. (’ II MRU. IMRKi TORS . tini . 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