The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, March 10, 1955, Image 7
Thursday, March 10,1955
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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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
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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.
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the down payment, the next step is to get the
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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."
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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.
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