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Show . o Honesty In Business. Commenting on tbe statement I made recently that a large business man found nearly all persons honest, tbe representative of another concern, doing from $30,000,000 to fO.OOO.OOO of business every year, said to me: "Going back over our accounte for a period of seven years, I can aaaure you that our losses have been less tban a tenth of 1 per cent." That s certainly a small Iosb. If very time you haudle 11.000 In a business way you lose leas than ft through misfortune, trickery or dishonesty, dis-honesty, the record looka pretty clean. The flguree Indicate that the man who Is habitually dlsboneat does not survive sur-vive In business. A Philadelphia manufacturer of cotton cot-ton garments tells me that la nine years hla plant haa lost a total of only SK0 through Inability to eollect the debta due It- I asked him how It wss possible to keep the losses so small. Hla reply was that his factory fac-tory sold Its output mostly to large concerns where the standard of hon-1 hon-1 eatr Is high Philadelphia ledger. |