Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-30

that, your business is essentially para lyzed and asphyxiated.
 A Common Understandinq.
 T take it that we are in a position now to come to 6 common understand ing. knowing that only a common un- derstanding will be the stable basis of business, and that what we want for business hegeafter Is the same kind of liberty that we want for the individual The liberty of the individual is limited with the greatest sharpness where his actions come Into collision with the interests of the community he lives in.
 There have been times. I will not specify them. but there have been times, when the field looked free but when there were favors received from the managers of the course when there were advantages given. in side tracks accorded, practices which would block the other runner, rules which
 ~" amateur who want cd to get fn. That may be free field.
 nere is parGality there is preference, there is covert ad- .e---e~-s0 .ell-en Ot somebody, and while there are men whom you can find who were not allowed to get into the track and test their powers against the other men who were racing for the honors of the day.
 Must Observe the Rules.
 q think it is a serviceable fight. Tt means this, that you are not going fo be barred from the contest because you are big and strong and you are not going to be penalized because you are big and strong, but you are going to be made to observe the rules of the track and not get in anybody's way, except as you can keep out of his way by having more vigor and skill than he mas It is the spirit of true sportsman- ship that ought to get into everything and men who when they get beaten that way squeaL do not deserve our pity.
 Employers Must Have Brains. Some mon are going to get beaten 1 ecause they have not the brains: they 1 ave not the initiative: they have not
 1e skill; they have not the know l adge; they have not the same capacity 1 lat other men have. They will have ! be employees; they will have to be used where they, can be used. We do nos need to conceal from ourselves l that there are varieties of capacity in the world. SOhe men have heads. but they are not particularly furnished. Rules of the Game. There are, therefore, suppose. 1 certain rules of the game. will men tlon what seems to me some of them l nave already mentioned one of them by way of illustration. First Of all is 1 the rule Of pubiiicty, not doing any tnlng under cover, letting the public know what you are doing and judge of l 1t according as it is. There are q | great many bsinesses in this country that have fallen under suspicion be- 1 cause they were so secretive when 1 there was nothing to seCrete that was I ulshonorable- Publicity. which is re- qulred in sport, is required in business. Let's see how you are running the game!
 Then. in the second place. there is ! a tuH equivalent for the money you receive, the full equivalent in service: not trying to skimp in the service in order to increase profits above a req sonable return, but trying to make tho profits propOrtiOred to the satisfaction 1 Of the people that you serve. There Is not any more solid foundation for business than that.
 Conscience in Business.
 Then, in the third place, this game requires something more than ordinary spirit. It requires a certain Sad of conscience in business, a certain feel ing that We are, after all in this world because we are expected to make good according to the standards Of the people We live with That, after all, gentlemen, is the chief compuIsion that is laid on all Of us.
 The Spirit of Service,
 Then the fourth rule, as it seems to me, is the rule of having the spirit of service. know men, men in this o-v
 eiASi t are men III the SclentInC reau of this government whom I could clte-who could make very big salaries but who prefer the satisfaction of do- ing things that will serve the whole community, and doing them just az well as they possibly can be done for one am proud of the scientific bu- reau of this government
 Freedom of Speech.
 Concluding with a reference to his belief in freedom of speech. the presi- dent said: T have been subjected to free speech myself, and it is hard to endure some times because the office of the president seems to be the clear house for original ideas. am brought more original ideas Ter diem, I dare say, than any other person in the country ard, therefore, pay the pen alty of free speech