The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-04

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WASHINGTON. July s.--if you
are Interested IN signs 81 the times
you will find In Judge Ebert ~
Gary's latest public utterances one
of the most remarkable and siGnfi
cant public addresses made by any
body anywhere IN recent years. II
MAS made 90 the Alumni Association
Of Northwestern university. while
what Judge Diary eaid 10 not new
and has been said many times. !, Il
sensasionaiiy new IN coming from
the chairman OF tho board 81 the "
\. Steel Corporation. Ills command
Ing position I'm the world OF finance
and industry together with the rec
ord of tho steel corporation a. q
ruthless. slave driving corporation
for many years under his leadership
giss 20 Judge 0ary's most recent ut
teranoss this especial signifscance.
All ovrr the country bankers. man
ufarfurerr and business rnrn look q
the hig captains OF industry for In
SEPARATION. what Judge Gary nays
ain make thcm think. ff men oni,
win think. they will think right
eventually n they only set the habit
and keep on thinking.
upto-date business men have sp
proved Of tho Golden Rule on sun
day. They listened attentiveiy anc
symrathetlcally while their fayorits
preacher preached 81. But when th~y
~cnt home from church and took of
their Sunday go-,omecting clothes
they put tho Golden Rule away IN
the wardrobe or closet along with
their Sunday closhox-to stay there
until next SUNDAY. For no matter
how much they liked the Golden Rule
a. a theoretical rule Of human con
duct. they felt they would go broke
II they tried to apply II in their daily
business.
II WAS n good rule. ali right. bu,
Il wouldnr pay.
Now Judge Gary intImates that II
win actually pay elk days IN ths
week as well az sound good on sun
day. And this scneral Of the captain,
~ industry says right out IN publ,
just what some 81 the so-calicd re
formers have been denounced and
damned as radicals for all these year,
for saying But ma Judge Gary n
both enormously rich and emlnentlJ
successful. his own associates In bus
lness and their many followers will
not dcnouncc Judge Gary a. a radi
cal They won't discoior his appea
for the humaniticr. as socialism
anarchism or bolshevism. They viii
think there must be something In 4
when Judge Gary says:
From considerable experience.
assert with confidence and emphasis
that. taken as n whole. year after
year. the pecuniery gains OF large
or small business will be greater II
II is fairly, humaneiy and honest
iy conducted. II this be true IL alone
furnishes a logic 10 everyone which
should be conclusive
And 10 politicians he offered this
AS passing suggestion II may bs
observed that henceforth the politica
party which pays tho most attention
60 ethics In likely TO secure indorsc
ment by the majority OF voters
especially the women"
After asserting that "a large ma
jority of business men now conduc
their affairs In accordance with thu
belief that right n superior TO might
that morality is on a par with legal
ity and that the observance of boti
IN essential TO worthy achievement.
Judge Gary frankly admits the fail
ure OF business to live up to tina
rule in the past.
lie says that not many years ags
managers OF some OF the large cor
porations apparently believed that 4
their conduct was within the stric
and technical rules OF law n wa,
immune from public or private at
tack; that " the provision of no pub
/ lie law was violated the corporation
should be permitted 10 secure un
limited profit and might treat indif
fercntly it's customers. its employers
its competitors and even the genera
public BY this regime IN,
rule OF might over right prevailed
In business the Golden Rule wa,
given no thought. certainly no place
In the practice OF this school and per
fod"
So much for the old business. Nov
for the new. He admits that the ole
hasn't yet gone. but says the new
IN on the way.
''In everyday life." he says. ma,
still be seen evidences OF indifference,
to principle. some involving great
moral turpitude. The collector oi
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