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Your attitude towards the unenforceable obliga- 

 tions in your sphere of action has been fine and ad- 

 mirable. Your service has been unstinted. Your 

 work more than any other agency has put souls into 

 the bodies of corporations. 



The test of an institution or of a corporation or of 

 a nation lies in its attitude toward the unenforce- 

 able obligations of life. I do not mean merely in 

 respect to the attitude towards "scraps of paper." 

 All of us here are aware of the obligations of the 

 written word, but what is our attitude toward the 

 unenforceable? One of the oldest treaties in this 

 country was between William Penn and the Indians. 



This was never sworn to and never broken, but it 

 worked admirably. 



The measure of a man in all his relations in life 

 is his attitude towards his unenforceable obligations. 

 In our hearts we know that the communities we serve 

 will measure us by it. 



