BUSINESS LIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 53, 27 March 1909, Page 3

BUSINESS LIES.

FAILt'KF UF TEX TJIOI'SAM) KXmUiiENTFIW. Xew York, January 17. ion thousand people of Cleveland, Ohio, have been trying for two weeks to "live like Christ/' carrying onL a pledge at meetings held in all the churches 011 Ifrd January.

-Most of the experimenters have eon[leased their inability to keep their l'lcdjfe, not because ot' any lack of desire on tiieu- own pans, but because, as the.v a-sert, present-day business conditions make a t nn.st lite impossible. A clerk in a bootsliop asserts that many women customers who require large-size boots would leave the store in a rage and never return if lie told tlicni the correct size of the boots sold them. "1 am compelled," he says, "to lie by sUyiiig lliat a size is two or three when in reality it is a live. Were 1 to tell the truth I should be discharged." A woman stenographer says she is lorced 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 she is compelled frequently to say one ot her employers is not in when sin: knows that is not tiie truth. ' A dry-goods salesman says he is forced to praise the quality of certain materials lo customers when be knows the quality is poor, or he would be without work and bis family starving. A chemist's assistant must sell over the counter poor quality drugs which lie knows will not do the work expected of them.

A very large proportion of those who made the pledge assert that it is not within tile ability of an employee to live as Christ would unless the employer undertakes to pattern his conduct after Christ. 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 be prepared lo face unemployment and bring down suffering on bis family.