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Show IIUSINCSS MUST RE ON THE SQUARE IN THESE LATTER DAYS. The old and wellworn and wollknown phrase, "business Is business," is losing enste. It is no longor met with in polite business circles. What it really meant was thnt an allow nncc should be mndc for slippery business thnt certain rigid rules of honest conduct were not absolutely necessary in business. There isn't m Price business mnn who would think of owning to such a creed. In the old days "Hint's business" was n favorite expression to go with n chuckle, but nowndnys the belief in business honesty, integrity and fnir dealing is almost universal. Todny business honesty is as honest as any other kind of honesty. Every man doing busl-ncsB busl-ncsB in Price especially every successful merchant mer-chant enn tell you thnt one of the things that most assuredly docs not pay in business is thnt sharpness thnt borders upon dishonesty. The American of this generation expects, demands de-mands nnd gets business decorum of u sort he would expect from his best friends. He won't stand for "business is business" nt his expense or the expense of the public generally. The business world hns moved forwnrd to the point where some of the reprehensible practices oi n bygone tiny, wncn people in business circles were not expected to be ns honest In every particular par-ticular as a preacher, have been thrown to the discard. In Price, The Sun is sure, the slogan is not "business is business," but "business is n fair deal." |