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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



February 1, 1921 



NEW DEMAND FOB BUSINESS ETHICS 



There arc two great things, he asserted, which liusincss men 

 ought to have tlieir eyes on at present, the lirst being that there 

 is a new demand for common, plain, 

 old-fashioned ethics. Men who had 

 slipped many cogs in the machine 

 of ethics while engrossed by the 

 unprecedented opportunity to pile 

 up personal resources, foresaw in 

 1920 where business and the coun- 

 try were going to if. in the greed 

 of accumulation, the homely princi- 

 ples of downright honesty and fair 

 dealing we're to relegated to the 

 rear, and began to call for a new 

 and square deal in commercial af- 

 fairs. Continuing, he spoke in part 

 as follows : 



AS TO THE FUTURE 



Somebody says there is a depression around. Well, maybe 

 there is. You cannot have a country without having valleys as 

 well as hills. But did you ever ride out into the country, and 

 did you ever notice that what gave your landscape grace, sym- 

 metry and beauty was not that it was a dead level plain, but after 

 you had risen through struggle to the summit of a hill, and per- 

 haps had descended into a valley, another hill waited for you, and 

 conquering that with your machine, when you stood ui)on its 

 shining pinnacle, the view seemed better than any other view 

 you had ever seen? That is the way with business. There may 

 be depression today, but, oh, buckup, buckup, there is going 

 to be a conquered mountain pretty soon in our American busi- 

 ness world. And if we have ethics that are keen enough— and 

 we have, and ncighborliriess that is generous enough — and we 

 have — we shall not only share the view but divide the profit. 



MEMBERS AND GUESTS PRESENT 



Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, 

 D.D. 



AT THE PRESIDENT'S TABLE 



Business men began to say to 

 people who had made contracts 

 in good and honest purpose, and 

 then because the market had 

 fallen off tried to break their 



contracts and ship the goods for whicli they had contracted, 

 back upon the people with whom they had made their con- 

 tract; they began to say to those people, "Look here, don't 

 you know that it is perfectly honorable for a man in the for- 

 tunes of war to lose his cash, but God help him if in trying 

 I) save his cash he loses his character?" And they started a new 

 significance to this attempt to break contracts which had been 

 made lu.-.iestly and honorably and Lold each other the fact that 

 if you wanted to take the entire life out of the business of our 

 country, or any other country, you would make the principle of 

 contracts a sort of shuffling thing, so that a man who holds a con- 

 tract in all honesty and honor, does not know whether it is going 

 to be lived up to by the other man or not. 



Oh, ihe new demand for new ethics in the world, the pro 

 fessional as well as the bu!-iiiess world, is one of the hopeful sign^ 

 for the future of our country and the world in these depressing 

 days, for, as has been said, and we remember the saying, gentle- 

 men, in spite of everything, the Ten Commandments are not 

 abridged, and stealing will continue. 



THE IMPORTANCE OF WORLD NEIGHBORLINESS 



Now, the otlier thing which is to be seen in the larger life of 

 the world that we all ought to get our eye on is a new apprecia- 

 tion of the principle of neigliborliness in the world. No man is 

 such a consummate jackass in this day and generation as the man 

 who undertakes to make you believe that you can build a high 

 fence around the United States of America, and allow the rest of 

 the world to go hang and let America proceed to glory. 



All that happens in one corner of the world is now of immense 

 significance to those who live in the other corners of the world, 

 and it cannot be that in one corner of the world there are 

 3,500.000 starving boys and girls ; that in another corner of the 

 world there are a million starving men and women; that China 

 has two million men and women in the grip of a most grasping 

 famine, the most grasping that country has ever known — it can- 

 not be that these things can transpire in other corners of the w'orld 

 and have no eflfcct upon us in well fed, in rich, in prosperous 

 America. 



For the enlarging vision which today can make America with 

 all her magnificent opportunities ; with the great immunity which 

 was hers through the war ; in spite of her wonderful debt which 

 she paid with her money, but which left us with our national life; 

 it cannot be that America, with all these advantages, can look 

 upon the sorrowing and suffering and hunger of the world and 

 not respond. Oh, thank God. she does respond ! 



So. my two words arc these: We ought to be able to see 

 beyond our own individual interests and understand how might- 

 ily necessary it is today to accentuate in America the good old- 

 fashioned principle of ethics which we learned at our mother's 

 knee, thai honesty is the best policy, and that only as honesty is at 

 a premium in business life can business be either safe on the one 

 hand or in any helpful way largely improved upon the other ; and 

 then the second thing, that the principle of neighborlincss binds 

 your life to the life of the man who is farthest away from you on 

 this terrestrial sphere and thai what affects him 'will inevitably 

 a fleet yon. 



Hlondin. Hon. P. E. 

 Bourn. lion. A. O. 

 Boynton. Rev. N., D.D. 

 Krougliton, John S. 

 Brown. A. H. 

 Carlisle. C. H. 

 Clark, Merrell E. 

 Colt, Col. Samuel P. 



Abberlev, Lester S. 

 Absit. N. W. 

 Acbelis, F. G. 

 Adams. H. J. 

 Agar, J. L. 

 ."Vgnew, R. H. 

 Aiken. Mr. 

 Ake, M. E. 

 .Alexander. A. N. 

 Allen, B. H 

 Altschuler, A. A. 

 Anderson, E. A. 

 Anderson, J. D. 

 Anderson, V . T. 

 Andrews, E. S. 

 Appleton. F. H.. Jr. 

 Armstrong. H. G. 

 Armstrong. H. H. 

 Arnold. W. H. 

 Asakage. A. 

 Ashcroft. R. W. 

 Ayer, Benjamin 



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Babbitt. R. 

 Balxrck. F. II. 

 Babcox. E. S. 

 RaHcnhop. Robert 

 Baird. Collier W. 

 Baird. Robert E. 

 Baird. Robert I.. 

 Baird. William T. 

 Raird, W. T., .Tr. 

 Batch. W. H. 

 Ballon. R. H. 

 Ballou. W. S. 

 Banbury, F. II. 

 Barber, L. 

 Barnard. H. II. 

 Barnes, Charles W. 

 Barrett, Dr. C. S. 

 Barry, B. J. 

 Bartlett, E. R. 

 Basten, Otto. 

 Batchelder, Frank 



Bates, Charles A. 



Bate.s, G. .7. 



Banman, H. .\. 



Baxter. H. I.. 



Beat. Herman I.. 



Beard. E. C. 



Realty, C. F. 



Beclitcl. Fred \'. 



Beckberger, W. A. 



Bedell. H. H. 



Bedford. Bnice 



Beecher. L. A. 



Beecroft. David 



Behrand. Victor 



Benedict. I. K 



Bennett. W. ('. 



Benny. E. 



Bensinger. R. F 



Bergertm, George 



Berrien. W. P. 



Bers, A. 



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Cox. William C. 

 Davot. Charles .1. 

 I")iinn, Harry T. 

 Fess, Hon. Simeon I), 

 Firestone. H. .S. 

 Hanch. C. C. 

 Hodgman, George B 

 Kelly, William J. 

 Lewis, Seneca (■. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST 



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 Bullock. Hugh 

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 Clemeiit. Thomas 

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I.ownian, Jolin S. 

 Matuire. John W. 

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 Rutherford. W. O. 

 Sawyer, Homer E. 

 Thompson, C. E. 

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Cobb, J. H. 

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 Comey, G. P. 

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 Ctniway, Mr. 

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 Cook. Mr 

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 Crwen. R. R 

 Covle, T. W 

 Craig, F. H. 

 Cranor, D. 

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 Craver, B. B. 

 Crowlev. T. T. 

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 Curtis. E. B. 

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 Daniel, F. W. 

 Daum, G. W. 

 Davies, I. R 

 Dayton. F. E. 

 Dean, T. B. 

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 DeLanie, E. C. 

 DeLanie, H. S. 

 De Lis,ser, R. L. 

 Denman. Walter R. 

 Desmond. T. A. 

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 Devine. J. W. 

 DeVries. D. II. 

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 Dickson. John A. 

 Dicsher, C. J. 

 D'l.ouhv. Tosenh 

 Doty, II. S. 

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 Dreislcr. W. H. 

 Dumont. I.. W. 

 Duncan, W. W. 

 Dunlap. W. B. 

 Dunsford. S. 

 Dwyer. T. A. 



