The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-08
Rotary Club Principle Is One of
Service to Community.
Pledge Includes Fairness to All
Men Members Meet.
HAVE ELEVEN COMMANDMENTS
Ethics of Order Are Strict. 1t Is
Shown at Convention.
Business Men All Over World
Striving to Elevate Business.

Los Angeles. June s.-Putting the
golden rule to work in business and
professional everyday life is the way
the Rotarians from every section OF
the world state the object OF che IN
Il. national Association of Rotary
Clubs. the annual convention OF which
brings ten thousand OF the leading
business men of 1900 cities and
fwenty-twO countries to Los Angeles
the week of June 5 to 10.
The sole business of Rotary is to
make the principle of service to the
community as well as to the 1ndivld-
uaI the object of all Rotarians. For
this purpose each Rotarian has sub
scribed to what is known as the Rotary
Code Of Ethics and is striving to PCt
this code into effect in his own busl-
ness aid to tring about the adoption
OF similar codes in all business asso-
Citations.
The Rotarian states that his Code
Of Ethics provides:
First: To consider my vocation
worthy, and as affording me distinct
opportunity to serve society
Second: To improve myself. IL
crease my efficiency and enlarge my
service, and by so doing attest my
faith in the fundamental principle Of
Rotary that he profit most who
Third: To realize that 1 am a
business man and ambitious to sue
man, and wish no success that is not
founded Oh the highest justice and
morality.
To Hold High Standard.
Fourth: To hold that the ex-
change of my goods. my service and
my ideas for profit is legitimate and
ethical, provided that all parties in
the exchange are benefited thereby.
Fifth. To use my best endeavors
to elevate the standards of the vOca-
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conduct NV affairs that others in my
vocation may find il wise, profitable
ard conducive to happiness to emu
late my example
sixth To conduct my business in
such a manner that 1 may give a per-
feet service equal to or even better
than my competitor, and when IN
doubt to give added service beyond
tn strict measure of debt or oblIGa-
r.on-
seventh. To understand that one
of the greatest assets of professional
or OF a business man is his friends
and tl.at any advantage gained by
reason Of friendship is eminently ethi-
cal and proper.
Eighth: To hold that true friends
demand nothing OF one another and
that any abuse of the condolences of
friendship for profit is foreign to the
spirit of Rotary. and in violation OF
its Code of Ethics
All Men Treated Alike.
Ninth; To consider no personal
success legitimate or ethical which
is secured by taking unfair advantage
OF certain opportunities in the social
order that are absolutely denied 9TH
ers. nor will 1 take advantage of Op-
portunities to achieve material success
that others will not take because OF
the questionable morality involved
Tenth: To be not more obligated
TO a Brother Rotarian than am to
every other man in human society;
because the genius of Rotary is not in
its competition but in its cooperation;
for provincialism can never have a
place in an institution like Rotary, and
Rotarians assert that Human Rights
are not confined to Rotary clubs but
are as deep and as broad IS the race
itself; and for these high purposes
does Rotary exist to educate all men
and all institutions.
Eleventh: Finally. believing in the
universally of the Golden Rule All
things whatsoever We would that men
should do unto you, do ye even so unto
them, we contend that society best
holds together when equal opportunity
is accorded all men in the natural re-
sources of this planet"