Show t What Situation Was Worth Propriety of Keeping Up Appearances Appear-ances Impressed on Officer Holding Important Corporation Corpora-tion Position Some months ngo an officer holding on important executive post In ono of the greater corporations received a kindly almost neighborly call from ono of his follow directors This officer of-ficer had returned from a brief vacation vaca-tion trip The fellow director said to him that In view of their long friendship and their respect and admiration ad-miration each for the ability and achievements of tho other he was goIng go-Ing to peak somewhat plainly to that officer Then ho put this question bluntly to him What will you be willing to pay to keep your place It scorned n strange question The executive officer did not know at first what to make of It He san of course that there was somu lUiidly altboigh hidden purpose In the question and RObe I RO-be answered In the spirit In which the Inquiry was put Ho said that of course If it were necessary and was the proper thing to do ho would rather pay a large sum of money than i I to lose that omen for It represented I his ambition and was In line with his achievements Hut I do not know what you are driving at this officer continued Then the officer was told that while of course It was Impossible to take set ieusly the question What money are you willing to take to hold the office wvertlHlesH there was n price which he would have to pay und that price WHS this Ho muni gIve up indent tlotw living he must be es ptclal areftil to observe local ordinances ordin-ances not driving recklessly with his automobile he rant 1 be careful to keep all the appearances of propriety hu must do all things that a soberminded BOlfrespidlug citizen should do and It his disposition led him to genteel dissipation riotous living or to ostentation osten-tation then the giving up of those things was the price he would have to pay If he desired to keep his office And the reason why that price was exacted was that as officer of a corporation cor-poration In which the public has Invested In-vested heavily he must necessarily heed public opinion even In the conduct con-duct of his private lIteNew York Letter In Philadelphia Press |