HONESTY IN BUSINESS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9400, 22 March 1909, Page 2

HONESTY IN BUSINESS.

For two weeks nearly 10.000 people of Cleveland (Ohio) have teen trying to live “lives of religious purity,” oarrying oat a pledge at meetings held in all the "churches on January 3rd. A large number of the experimenters have confessed their Inability to keep their pledge, not because of any lack of desire on their own parts, but because, so they assert, says the Standard’s correspondent, present day business conditions make a strictly religions life impossible, . ... A clerk in a boot shop asserts that many women customers who require 1 large size boots would leave the store in a rage and never rethrn if he told them the correct size of the boots sold them, “I am compelled,” he says, “to lie by saying that a size is two or three, when in reality it is a five. Were I to tell the truth I should be discharged.” A woman typist says she is forced to assist in propagating a lie by writing on her machine a letter dictated'by her employer containing statements she knows to be false. A telephone operator asserts that .frequently she is compelled _ to say one of her employers is not in when she knows that it is not the truth. A haberdasher says he is forced to praise the quality of certain materials to customers when he knows the quality is poor, or he would be without work, and his family, starving. A chemist’s assistant must sell over the counter poor quality drugs ....... which he knows will not do the - work expected of them, A very larga part of those who made the pledge assert that it is not within the ability of an employee to IWe as a Christian should unless the employer undertakes to pattern his conduct after the Bible. Any person dependent on another for his living,, say the Cleveland experimenters, must obey orders, whether they correspond with the Golden Rule' or not. Otherwise he must bo prepared to face unemployment and bring down suffering on his family. Those who are able ■ / to live the truly moral life do not show more fortitude than their ! fellows, but simply are in a better . „ , .position to .do so.

The parole system in Canada has thus far given satisfactory results. Since it was inaugurated eight years ago 3000 prisoners have been given ticket of leave. For a certain'period after their release the persons to w,hom this conditional pardon has been given are subject to espionage. They are also answerable to/(.the parole officer of the Justice Department, whose principal object is to assist them to ways of earning an honest livelihood. Less than 2 per cent, have fallen again into evil ways. f .Many tragedies have happened at Niagara Falls, but a "disaster was recently averted which would have created a new record. A motor boat laden with Chinamen and white men was passing from the Canadian to the|American side above the falls, when the machinery refused to work. The craft drafted towards the falls, and was qnite close to the current from which no escape ts possible when rescue parties succeeded in reaching it with tow-lines. This help came not a moment too soon. Our kinsmen at the Antipodes, savs a Home paper, have bad a sample of the high protection pplicy. The Australian tariff has had a year’s run, and it is safe to say that the specious promises held out by the interested sponsors for such a scheme have been belied by experience. The artisans here were induced to believe that the floodgates of prosperity would open wide, and that the insular position of the Commonwealth would maintain the export trade while restricting f importation. Well, last year’s figures will open their eyes. Imports, it is true, have fallen over £2,000,000 sterling, and may be manufacture baa had additional impetus thereby. But exports are down by £8,250,000. and thus the tale is tampered by contra-account. We remember that the aid of Parliament was sought to procure some share of the spoils for Labour, and the progress so far is still in the “seeking” stage. The obvious lesson is that as consumers the Australians have been penalised to the extent of the latest imposts on imported commodities. They have, in addition, had accentuated unemployment and poverty almost as severe as the Motherland. BOILS. This is the season of the year when boils ,are troublesome. When they appear, and exhibit persistency by daily enlargement and increasing pain, suppuration should be promoted by warm poultices of bread and linseed meal, to which a little oil should be added; or warm and stimulating embrocations, exposure to the vapour of hot water, or the applioatiou of stimulating plasters may be adopted. The diet may be full and regular till the discharge of the matter, when it should be lessened, and the bowels kept in natural operation by the regular use of IMPEY’S MAY APPLE. Where there is a disposition in the constitution to boils, Impey’s May Apple should be used right through the summer months; this is a certain preventive, as those who have used it can testify. Boils or other eruptions cannot exist when the blood is pure, but in order to keep it pure the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels must perform their natural functions. When they fail, or refuse to act nroperly, a few doses of Impey’s May Apple will bring about he desired result. Price 2s 6d. |2gf?