The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-28

lied as the elimination, the poetry,
he music Of human relationship. One
outstanding object of these clubs IS
o find a way to create among men
.ich and enduring friendships.
IF so mems memories not thy |
monument be;
Thou shalt have none.
Warm hearts and not cold stone
must mark thy grave
Or thou shalt be alone.
Marbles keep not themselves, how
then, keep thee?'
'The fourth underlying principle is
the means by which these clubs find
expression, and that is through some
of service. Our rugged ancest-
ors of northern Europe had an idea
that the highest act in life was 10
STAY a foe, and that if they killed
one the strength of that foe passed
over to the slayer. So that If ne
killed two men he gained the strength
Of two. IF he killed ten, he gained
the strength CT ten. Competitive
business has been built on some such
idea-that if one could STAY his com
p~etitor he gained his wealth; that il
he pushed ten men to the wall, he
gained the wealth of ten men. 1t
simply indicates the sOrdidness of
business, to be compelled to say that
out Of every 100 men who enter bust
ness, that 80 some time in their life
have been pushed to the wall.
Business men in the recent past
have seemed so pagan that they have
marched into the markets of the
world flashing a t~wo-edged sword,
wearing a breastplate Of silver or
gold, crying, NO quarter; this is a
contest to the finish If l may coin
a word these clubs have determined
to depaganize business. Fer the pag-
an motto of "a fight to the finish
they have determined to introduce
we serve or we build For the old
rule of gold they have determined to
introduce the Golden Rule.
81 have somewhere before told the
meaning of the traditional origin OF
Jerusalem. Somewhat as our wore
! Philadelphia, which means 'city Of
brotherIy love-, so Jerusalem means
house of peace There is a beautiful
tradition that tells us that befor'
Jerusalem was built that two bro
theirs lived on the site under the SAINT
roof and titled the land together. A
harvest time it was their custom t
shock the grain in equal rows. On
brother would claim the first row
the other the second, and so on. On
brother was a single man, the othe
a man of family. One year, after
bountiful harvest, the single ma
said to himself, my brother is
man of family, he has greater nee
: than 1. l am going cut tonight an
, take some Of my sheaves over to m
= brothers shocks About the san
: time the married brother said to hin
= self, my brother is single, he hash
the joys that / have. | will go Of
tonight and carry some sheaves ov
to my brothers shocks.' And thu
t they did, night after night, until th'
a discovered each other engaged in tn
e brotherly transaction. And tn
awoke to a we'll known truth, tn
d what we do in service for anoth'
5, never i~mpoverishes ourselves.
@ Back to myself is measured well
+ All that thou hast given;
Thy brothers. wrong is thy pres
ent hell,
a His bless, thy heaven
S. "Pessimism, cynicism, may conte
if it will, that selfishness is the ma.
20 spring to human endeavOr. But th'
D. clubs do not and they will not belle
is it. They rather believe that hum
rs nature is largely a bundle Of habi
Sc and that habits can be changed. tt
refuse to believe that men viii fore
n follow the lesser joys and satisf
OF lions which come from a selfish p
r. suit of material gain. They insist
~ believing that men are wise enOU
III and coed enough to sometime lie;
e. that the higher and more lasting s
up isfaetion comes from moral and spi
SIC ual achievement 1T that they CO
r. through helping and serving u !
mt low man. These clubs have come
UT realize that selfishness is an unc
W sciOus means Of self-impoverishme
# that service is a joyous, intellig
re means CT self advancement. He
or they lay hold Of such mottos as
'ie build we serve
az have observed the rapid grO'
of your organization, that thOI
you have just celebrated your te