Febeuarv, 1921. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



107 



X when these 

 Home pa- 

 pers were first 

 started in Glean- 

 ings, there was 

 some discussion 

 and some criti- 

 cism in regard to 

 the way I was 

 "mixing religion 

 and business ;" 

 b u t,. may the 

 Lord be praised, 

 just now it is 

 nothing particu- 

 larly strange to 

 see a class jour- 

 nal mix religion 

 and business ; 

 and my impres- 

 sion is that the whole wide world begins to 

 recognize that neither business nor religion 

 is injured by combining the two. 



This matter was brought to mind by an 

 article in the Manufacturers' Record, of 

 Baltimore, Md., in its issue for May 27. By 

 the way, this magazine, in almost every is- 

 sue, recognizes the importance of letting 

 our religion show in all our business trans- 

 actions. Some time ago tlie Sunday School 

 Times claimed that almost every business 

 house that has stood and flourished for 50 

 years or more had some God-fearing and 

 church-going man at the head of it. Now 

 for the article in the Record : 



MARSHALIj 



OUR HOMES 



A. I. ROOT 



a 



tlie sabbath day to keep it holy. — 



Remember 

 Ex. 20:8. 



If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, 

 from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call 

 the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honor- 

 able, and Shalt honor him, not doing thine own 

 ways, iinr finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking 

 thine oun words, I will cause theei to ride upon the 

 high places of the earth. — IsA. 58:13, 14. 



We have made lies our refuge, and under false- 

 hood have \\e hid ourselves. IsA. 28:l,'i. 



FIELD & CO. 

 S A FACTOR : 



ON SUNDAY OBSERVANCE 

 N CIVILIZATION. 



Marshall Field & Co. of Chicago are probably the 

 greatest merchants in America. Their operations 

 are of vast extent, and for over half a century that 

 concern has ranked as one of the great business 

 leaders of America. By reason of this fact, it is 

 specially intet'esting to note the position which the 

 company takes in regard to the observance of the 

 Sabbath, believing that in this way they are con- 

 tributing to the welfare of the world. 



Their view on this point was expressed in a letter 

 under date of December 1, 1919, to the editor of 

 the Daily News of Elgin, 111. A copy of this letter 

 has just come into our possession, and as an inter- 

 esting presentation of their view of the non-com- 

 mercialization of Sunday we give it in full, as 

 follows : 



"Answering your inquiry of the twenty-fourth 

 ultimo, we will say that during fifty-odd years of 

 business, Marshall Field & Company never have 

 advertised in Sunday newspapers. They have fol- 

 lowed the rule that six days for labor and the 

 seventh for rest was best for employer and employe. 



"We regard Sunday advertising as an unnecessary 

 infraction of this very wholesome, many-century-old 

 religious dictum, and are glad to follow it. 



"We are said to have the most wonderful display 

 windows in the world, covering four sides of a 

 block. The curtains of thesei windows are lowered 

 from Saturday night until Monday morning, though 

 we have been urged by many people to allow this 

 displav to go forward on the Sabbath Dav. 



"These decisions 

 were m a d e and 

 have been carried 

 out by the founders 

 and owners 

 of this institution, 

 because they have 

 always tried to 

 govern their ac- 

 tions by their inter- 

 pretation of the ef- 

 fect upon the public 

 morals. As their 

 example is followed 

 by many merchants, 

 they have striven 

 to mold their poli- 

 cies along the high- 

 est ethical lines. 



"Marshall Field 

 & Co. feel that the 

 fact that they do 

 not commercialize 

 Sunday makes for 

 better citizenship." 



If the policy 

 adopted by this firm 

 advertise in the Sunday 

 the curtains of their 



of not only refusing to 



papers, but of even lowerin 



great show windows from Saturday night until Mon 



day morning, in order that they might not be an 



advertisement of the firm, was generally carried into 



eflfect, what a marvelous change would take place 



thruout this country. 



The Sunday newspaper is an overgrown produc- 

 tion of late years. We believe that in its present 

 size It is a distinct disadvantage to the best interests 

 of the newspapers of the country. If modern con- 

 ditions demand that the world shall on Sunday have 

 some of the news of the preceding 24 hours, a con- 

 densed presentation through a Sunday morning pa- 

 per would certainly be less objectionable than the 

 stuflf which is now furnished in Sunday papers, with 

 their 30 and 40 and 50 and 60 pages of matter. It 

 is very largely to the Sunday paper that the short- 

 age of news paper is due, and we believe that the 

 publishers of the great daily papers of the big cities 

 of the country would be serving their own best in- 

 terests and the country at large if they would re- 

 duce by one-half or two-thirds the size of their Slin- 

 day papers. And so far as advertising is concerned, 

 we believe that the statement of Marshall Field & 

 Co. as to their views in regard to the matter will 

 awaken a wide-spread interest among many other 

 business men. 



The part that took hold of me particu- 

 larly Avas in regard to Sunday papers. 

 Again and again have I decided that I 

 could not afford to waste my time (espe- 

 cially since I am now past 80 years, and 

 niy eyesight gives some symptoms of fail- 

 ing) in reading the Sunday dailies or any- 

 thing of that class. In fact, I made the de- 

 cision years ago; but every little while 

 something has come up that has caused me 

 to break my promise. (Of course, I made 

 the promise to myself.) When, years ago, 

 I was so much interested in flying-machines 

 (I think it was the time when they had the 

 great World's Fair in St. Louis), somebody 

 sent me a part of a Sunday daily describ- 

 ing at length a new flying-machine on ex- 

 hibition at the great fair. The whole thing 

 was pictured out with the name and resi- 



