Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-07
DO YOU EVER THINK or
THE OTHER FELLOW"
(Communicatcd.)

There is an international organi- |
cation which embraces 10000 bust |
ness and professional men who are
devoted to n practical application of
the Golden Rule in business and pro-
fcssional life.
a few months go Il big-souled
man was asked TO make an address
before local group of this organi-
zat!On in Massachusetts,. The subject
of the address was "The Other Eel
low" and out OF it has grown a move
ment that is spreading throughout
the country, and is coming to be
known as "The Other Fellow Move
mcnt." In its essence, this move
ment is an earnest effort to awaken
the national conscience. beginning
with the children, and not ending UNI
til the last man and woman had been
reached, to the Importance of con
serving the time, the substance, the
money, and even the good spirit of
the "othcr fellow"
When we scratch the surface of the
average mind, we find that there is
an amazing disregard for that which
belongs to others. After years of
national wastefuness, we are all be-
coming eager to save our own goods
for the welfare of our nation and its
allies, as we'll as for our own profit,
| but we have not all learned to look
about us for opportunities to save
that which belongs to our neighbor,
and to the stranger whom we have
not even seen.
This subject Of conserving for 9th
ors is susceptible OF The most inter
esting and human illustration, and
almost unlimited application. 1t will
require only little thought TO dis
cover how the principle comes home to
our personal and cur collective lives
at many points. For instance, think
of the countless automobile tires that
arc damaged or ruined by the caress
throwing of glass and nails into the
street. Think OF the indirect tax that
is placed upon the hotel-patronizing
public by the waste of food in cafes,
the waste of water from the faucets
left open, the waste of lights not
turned off. and the carless wear and
tear OF MOTEL property. Specifically,
it would seem that there is no waste
in such instances because the atron
pays the bill, but we must remember
that every hotel fixes its scale of
charges upon cost system, and when
Il single hotel, as is literally the case,
must charge $4,000 to waste that
can be directly attributed to careless
guests, we can see how it is Il tax on
the public, and therefore upon you
and me, to put in term of self. In
the same way public property stuff
ers, and so all such damage is vent
ually assessed as tax upon the citi-
Zens.
Multitudes of people are satisfied
TO sustain temporary loss of time,
OF health, OF property, so long rs this
loss is covered by insurance." not
realizing that every loss to the in
surance company comes back upon the
public as an indirect charge.
In the home we need to deal strin-
gently with servants who waste coal,
light, water. food and the household
: furniture. I'm our schools we need to
show the children the broad prnci-
pie that the belongings CT others are
as sacred as though they were money
in their purses which should not be
stolen. Waste Of that which belongs
to another Is really theft from him,
and must be accounted for before the
: bar of conscience.
So we see the applications of this
principle are countless, penetrating
even to the field of the mind and the
heart, for it certainly conserves the
efficiency, the courage and the char
acter of cur neighbor not to waste
his time, not to depress his spirit, and
not to sap his moral strength In
short, in these times of national and
international stress, each must be-
come his brothers keeper That which
robs one, robs all, so closely are we
Joined by the ties of odern society.
j 1t is too much to hope that each
one who reads this will do something
to further "The Other Fellow Move
ment?" Will not our school teachers
and Sunday School teachers enlist their
children in this new crusade? Will
not our ministers preach sermons on
the Golden Rule, stressing these phas-
es Of its application?
AS Il nation we arc fast learning
how "many a mickie makes a muckle"
in material things, and we know that
the principle works as surely in the
realm Of the mind and the heart. If
we apply this knowledge to the con-
servation of the other fellows time,
money, substance and spirit, it will
accomplish Il long stride toward that
state OF brotherhood we hope for
when the war is over. S.
ONLY TWENTY vEaps AGO