The Washington times., 1920-10-28
The Honest Dollar
Business Is Business, and Not Robbery, If We Give
Value Received For Money.

There is only kind of an honest dollar It ID thel
dollar for which we give dollars worth.
There but kind Of business transaction that is
clean all the way through And that Is the in which
both parties make profit.
When you buy lunch for 30 cents. and 1t Is . good
lunch and wholesome you get something you need more
than you need the 30 cents and the restaurant gets
piece which he woud rather have than the sandwich
and coffee
Both oontented Both prosper If all business werej
as straight this the world would get
The rotten spot in mems minds is whore they conceive
prosperity the expense Of somebody else
We are all shot through with the theory
Of competition the idea of the Aght Of beating
CT conquest.
We play it in our games.
We build up our system of law and courts around il.
We it in schools giving prizes to those pupils who
excel others.
We adopt it q national policy, and nations
in terms of dominion and armament
is to be denounced much because it is wicked
because it is stupid and deceptive.
Nothing could do child much good to get it inl
among the fundamentals of his thinking that gain of
his will ever be rea satisfaction unaoyed success
worth wh unless every advantage he gains procured
by securing equal advantage for the other fellow
You do alter the nature of seAshness by calling
it business.
You cannot wash out the leopard spots of brutal
perior force by calling it competition
Historians have proven that the real progress of the
world has been furthered by All the advance
ment of the race has come by cooperating
The end of pure competition, every man for himself,
vac vctis devil take the hndermost the victor belong
the spo the survival Of the erces the blond beast theory
and all that is barbarism. Carried its legitimate con-
cuson eventuates in savagey where every carries
his tomahawk and skulks through the woods to kill
his enemy.
It means the end of production the wipng out of
civilization, the degradation Of humanity into beashood
It is cooperation that produces. Every mill, every
factory every city, farm, school, market and business
house. means that have agreed get together
stop fighting and pull for the common good.
man that makes it a.. foundation principle, every
deal goes into to ask himself What is there in for
the other feow? and who refuses to enter into any
action where he cannot how the other fellow is making
something and particularly when he that the affair will
mean loss to the other enow, cannot go far wrong.
To make profit out of another mans calamity is not
business. It is robbery.
Business is business It is not robbery
~ And whoever piles up a fortune from other mems mis-
fortunes plain thief and scoundre He decent And
every dollar he has is dirty.
It makes no difference how many memorial churches
he builds how many charities he supports what
hospitals and colleges he endows He remains enemy o
the If there is any hell be belongs to it.
Nothing is cleaner than business it be prncipes
of just exchange of goods service The business mem
Of the country probably its soundest assets its moral
backbone.
moters swindlers and sharpers, whose gains the
losses of others, community's worst enemies.