Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-06-22
COURTESY BEST POLICY.
In the Treatment Of Interiors Espe-
cially Is Found the Test Of
Ones Breeding.

The man or woman who treats equals
with polished consideration and SUI
periors with sauve Difference merely
practices conventionalities.
The test of good breeding lies In the
quality Of treatment man or woman
accords to interiors.
Depend, when man or woman is I'M
kind and arrogant when he or she comes
in contact with interiors, and especially
with interiors needing assistance, he or
she is inherently coarse natured, and
not susceptible to refining influences.
Moreover, when person who occu-
pies a superior position is imbued with
superciliousness when necessarily as
ISOLATED with those occupying inferior
business or social positions-he or she
advertises the fact, through personality,
that superiority" is an acquired condi-
ton, and not reward Of merit or a
condition of Inheritance.
The person who is born to superiority,
is used" TO the conditions, and is not
self-conscious in regard to the higher
level" nor at all ambitious to amaze in
feriors into a realization of his or her
Importance.
The self-made person is too broad
minded, as a rule-to assume a ficti-
tious isolation from those less fortu-
nate than themselves in the doings Of
the day.
The self-made person is civil to su-
periors and inferiors-much the same
as the usual person born to authority,
as a right of succession. Neither the one
nor the other is likely to take on the
insolence exhibited by some of those
who rise" through accident or Incl
dent.
When the person who is in charge
of the gate that bars an applicant
from the official is guilty of supercil-
iousness-the case should be accepted
as "distemper" that will be outgrown in
the course of experience,
The employer who conspicuously ig-
nores his employees Is as foolish as I'M
civil.
All that employees should expect
from their employers Is civility along
with wages. Courtesy Is so closely al
lied to civility that the distinction is
immaterlal in the relationship Of en-
ployer and employe.
Fortunately the civil employer is
more frequent than the other kind. In
the service of either kind the chief pur-
suit of the employe should be superior
quality of work. This is the sort Of
recommendation that helps the employe
into the service of an employer who
is civil to his help"
1t should not be forgotten that the
employer who isn't civil in his associa-
ton with employees pays for the priv
ilege of simply considering the work
accomplished by them. He buys the
work-and the men and women who
do it are nothing at all to him.
The employer who takes advantage
of his privilege in paying for work"
to the exclusion Of consideration of
his employes-also,i in the long run, pays
a large cost for his continuous perform
ance of incivilities:
His employees cannot feel personal
pride in their employeF-hence, they
have no personal ambition for his sue
cess. They exchange a good and prop
er share of work for wages. But they
do not crowd their abilities into the
largest material results in order to
conduce to the ambition of the propri-
etorship to be a leader in commercial
success.
Always and in various ways, ut pays
to be civil and courteous-and just. -
Chicago Inter Ocean.