Show ON jN MINDING ONES BUSINESS There is a very generally accepted theory to the effect that one of ot the sur surest surest surest est ways to achieve success Is by at attending attendIng attending tending strictly to your own business It is 18 contended that if it you do your own work faithfully and well it does not nol make any difference how the other fel fellow fellow fellow low does his In the end according to the copybooks you are certain to get to the top of the ladder where there Is 18 an abundance of or breathing space Th re i iare are of course exceptions to the rule For example If II walking along Main street you see a man with his hand band In another mans pocket and have reason for tor believing that somebody is being robbed you may call the tho robbed ones attention to the fact without laying yourself open to a a charge of not mind minding minding minding ing your own business Also if the housa of your neighbor is on fire you may speak to him about it or call the tho fire department and still be within the tho lines of good citizenship This is pre preliminary preliminary I to a question that has often otten been discussed In banks If It ono one bank clerk knows that another clerk or an officer of ot tho the Institution is stealing from it what is his duty A Chicago bank president says Bays It Is the duty of any clerk clerIc to report such mat matters matters matters to the proper authority at once In a recent address to his clerks he went Into the subject thoroughly speaking in part as follows It bas has come to my mv knowledge that some soma of or the clerks in the to Milwaukee Avenue State bank had knowledge of the frauds and Irregularities perpetrated in that bank by some of ot Its officers and that they the took no action to protect the bank its share shareholders shareholders shareholders holders or depositors against such frauds of which they were wore fully cognizant I de do desire desire sire It to be b clearly understood by every e of this bank that knowledge or r ran any an p reasonable suspicion of ot fraud of ot o any kind by which tho the bank suffers or may may suffer will be regarded as guilty knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge unless immediately disclosed If Il the th fraud In perpetrated by b p any officer or clerk under the rank of president the who has knowledge or suspicion of or it should it to me If It It is perpetrated perpetrated perpetrated by the president it should be com corn communicated to the he ho directors There is very little doubt in the tho minds of people familiar with the sub subject subject subject that quite often through a mis mistaken mistaken mistaken taken notion of good comradeship or o free masonry a clerk who knows that his fellow clerk clork is stealing falls taUs to re report report reS port him As the Chicago man says he thus becomes an accessory to the crime but that thought does not occur to him As long as his own books are arc straight and right ho he feels feela that It is no business of his what the man in the cage oage next to him is doing doingS doingt The Tho notion Is one that ought to be dispelled dispelled t S for Jor or the result might be the tho salvation of or a good many banks in tho th course of ot a year or two |