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THURSDAY, SEPT. 18
Representative of the
“Golden Rule” Tailoring
House Locates In Lamar
Bldg.-’Tis An Odd Story
Fearful of Becoming a Millionaire, Factory Owner Adopt
ed the “Treat-Others-A s-You’d - Have-Them-Treat-
You” Idea, and Gives Employees Over Half Million
Dollars. “If the Heads of Industries In This Country
Do Not Intend to Take Their Employees Into Their
Confidence Around the Council Table They Should
Never Have Let Them Attend the Public Schools,”
Says Mr. Nash
Mr. B. Wood, representing A. Nash
Company, Inc., of Cincinnati, 0., (the
"Golden Rule" tailoring house) makes
announcement elsewhere in this Issue
of the establishment of offices on the
12th floor of the Lamar building. Mr.
Wood Is selling popular priced suits
and overcoats for men for the fall and
winter season of 1924-25, and states
that his line Is bringing 95 per cent
orders wherever shown. Calls will
be made by appointment only.
An Interesting story concerning the
company Mr. Wood represents was
recently told in the Literary Digest
and numerous daily papers through
out the country. Mr. Arthur Nash,
president of the company, had an
abhorrence of dying a millionaire.
Mr. Nash had tried out the Golden
Rule, “whatever ye would that men
should do to you, do ye even so to
them, for this is the law and the
prophets,” as applied to his business.
He had felt that strictly living the
letter and spirit of the Golden Rule
in industry would be disastrous. But
this did not bother Mr. Nash. He
had made uib his mind to run his
business the way Christ would run
a large clothing business, and If there
were no profits—then that was as It
should be. For Mr. Nash was haunt
ed with the Bible warning:
“It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than for
a rich man to enter into the kingdom
of God.”
Mr. Nash was more interested In
making sure of getting Into Heaven
than of his profits In the tailor busi
ness. If a millionaire had mighty
small chance of entering the pearly
gates, then Mr. Nash wanted to be
sure that he would nor be caught with
a million dollars in property when he
died.
So Mr. Nash, a year ago. held a
conference with some clergymen and
others, and it was decided that the
only safe thing was to run the busi
ness on the Golden Rule, to conduct
his clothing factory just about as
nearly as Christ would have run it, so
far as Mr. Nash could figure It out.
But after operating his business for
a year on the Golden Rule idea, Mr.
Nash was distressed by the discov
ery that he had made more money
than ever!
A Serious Dilemma
Here then was a serious dilemma.
The worthy manufacturer had applied
Christ’s teachings to the very best of
his ability, and In perfect good faith
to his business. And yet at the end
of the year he found himself right
close on the edge of being a million
aire. And the Scriptural warning
about the millionaire and the needle's
eye made it impossible for him to
sleep at night.
In Mr. Nash's article In a Baptist
paper, he wrote:
As I own practically all the stock
of the company in the natural course
of events I am doomed to become a
very rich man. Please let that word
•doomed' register in your minds, for
that is the horrible picture that Is be
fore me.
"I see no way to go on with this
exoeriment and avoid becoming a
millionaire, and I do not want to be
a millionaire. I have seen too many
crimes committed under the protec
tion of a millionaire’s cloak.
“In the year prior to starting to try
to live actually as I thought the Man
of Galilee would live, to do literally
by every man and woman In our fac
tory just as I would want them to
do with me If our positions were re
versed. and actually deal with every
Dr, H. M. Dawson To
Give Chlorine Gas
Treatment For Colds
Was Developed by Chemical
Warfare Service of TJ. S.
Army During World War.
Also Uses Electronic
Method of Diagnosis and
Treatment
Dr. H. M. Dawson, osteopathic
physician, occupies two suites of
five rooms on the second floor.
He is a graduate of the American
College of Osteopathy of Klrks
ville, Mo., and has been practicing
his profession in this city for the
past seven years. Dr. Dawson Is a
Tennesseean, but practiced in In
diana for twelve years prior to
coming to Augusta.
Dr. Dawson is also using the
electronic method of diagnosis and
treatment, and is now fitting a
chamber for the administration of
chlorine gas for the treatment of
colds and respiratory diseases.
The chlorine gas treatment a*
developed by the chemical warfare
service of the U. S. army, la de
clared to be the most efficacious
treatment for colds and respiratory
troubles, yet discovered.
Since taking up his profession
in Augusta, Dr. Dawson has estab
lished himself in the confidence of
a large clientele through his minis,
tration to their needs and his un
questioned comscientious ability.
He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity and of the Royal Arch
Chapter in Augusta. He Is also a
member of the Elks Club and of
the Klwanis Club.
FIT, WORKMANSHIP AND WEAR GUARANTEED BY THE WORLD’S LARGEST TAILORING HOUSE!
A. NASH CO., Inc.
OF CINCINNATI
“The Golden Rule Tailoring House.”
Fall and Winter Line of Woolens Now Being Shown. 95% of
the People Who See This Line, Place Their Order With Us.
We Will Either see you at our office or call at your place of business. Calls
made by appointment only.
B. WOOD, Representative, 1212 Lamar Bldg.
customer on our books as I would
want to be dealt with if I were the
customer, our company had done
5131,190 worth of business.
“So far this year we have averaged
more Dusiness each week than we did
in that entire year.
“With all of us, the workers and
myself, investing our earnings and
savings In stock of the company, and
with the successive stock dividends,
the workers now have more than
$300,000 In stock, and I personally
hold more than 3600,000 worth.
“We are now in process of enlarg
ing our corporation, making the capi
tal 33,000,000, and will very shortly
declare another 100 per cent stock
dividend. As anyone can readily see,
this will give me over a million dol
lar's worth of stock In the A. Nash
Company.
“I am offering this statement to the
religious publications of our country,
with the privilege of using all or any
part of it, for one purpose. This is
because I want to know how to escape
becoming a millionaire."
And now Mr. Nash, after many
hundreds of letters of advice and
many hours of prayerful thought, has
at last figured a way to escape the
haunting fear that he might die a
millionaire.
Mr. Nash has given away to his fel
low employees 5900.009 worth of stock
in his clothing factory. Of course,
there is some risk that in thus es
caping for himself the fatal tragedy
of dying a millionaire, he may be un
consciously helping some employe on
to this very doom which Mr. Nash has
sidestepped.
But Mr. Nash Is happy. He has e
caped both horns of his dilemma —he
is conducting his business as he be
lieves the Saviour would conduct it
and he has escaped the "doom” of
becoming a millionaire.
Lack of Christianity
Mr. Nash had always been of a re
ligious turn of mind, had studied
theology and had done some preach
ing. One day the pastor of a church
In Cincinnati asked him to make an
address on "What is Wrong with
Christianity?" In preparing for his
address before the church congrega
tion, Mr. Nash says:
"I read a lot of articles which claim
ed that Christianity was a failure.
Through all of them I had a persist
ent feeling that the authors were not
condemning Christianity, but the lack
of it. To make sure I was right about
this, I got out a Bible and read over
the four Gospels. Despite the fact
that as a youth I had virtually known
them by heart, they seemed entirely
new to me. Everywhere I found the
Nasarene stressing the gospel of so
cial and economic righteousness. Con
stantly He was harking back to that
precept we call the Golden Rule—•
which I had always looked on as a
piece of Impractical Idealism. So I
got to wondering if most of us had
n’t wandered far afield—if the Gold
en Rule wasn’t really meant to live
by and work by.”
When Mr. Nash first took hold of
his clothing factory It was run as a
sweat shop, and had twenty-nine em
ployes. with Irene Rusland ns its fore
woman on a salary of 37 a week. The
other factory workers received a cor
responding sweat shop wage.
Business was brisk for everybody
in every line of manufacture, and It
did not need salesmen to sell the
goods, because in the war time rush
everybody had more business than he
could handle.
Mr. Nash looked the sweat shop
over, and decided to try the expedi
ent of better wages. He made a talk
to the employes, and told them that
he was going_to try to run the busi
ness on the Golden Rule. He would
pay them the same wages that he
would want them to pay him If they
were up In the office and he was down
in the shop, he Said. He began by
giving Irene Rusland 310 a week in
stead of the 37 she had been receiving
from the previous sweat shop man
agement.
A Profitable Investment
Then Mr. Nash went away to the
country, and at the end of two months
came back to look the factory over.
He dropped in to ask his bookkeeper
how things were going, and found that
they were selling three times as many
garments as they were before he went
away. He was astonished to find
that the same factory force was turn
ing out three times as much work.
So the Golden Rule was a profitable
business Investment, at least in his
factory.
Explaining how he came to apply
the Golden Rule In his business, Mr.
Nash said recently:
“After my early training In the
Seventh Day Advent Theological
School, I wandered from the church
of my youth. For a time I wander
ed .dirty anH ragged, working on
farms and In hosiery mills and wher-
Holley Construction Co.
( GENERAL CONTRACTORS
607 LAMAR BLDG. AUGUSTA, GA.
ever I could see the promise oil a J
living.
"I at one time intended to lecture
on what I considered to be the trou
ble with the Christian religion. It
was then that the realization of the
full significance of the Golden Rule
came to me.
“One day the owner of the shop
next to my office came to me aid
said he wanted to go back to his
mother in Austria, and asked me to
buy his business. My own business
was nearing bankruptcy, but when I
thought of how I would feel under
his circumstances I told him I would
buy the business.
"I found the payroll which he had
left on my desk the next morning,
and when I opened It I saw that here
was the greatest illustration of living
out of accord with the Golden Rule
that I had ever seen.
“After thinking the matter over I
determined that I would wind the
whole business up, but that while I
was doing it I would at least give
these poor people decent living wages.
I called a meeting and raised their
pay from 100 to 300 per cent. It look
ed like certain bankruptcy to me, so I
went out to Indiana to visit my fath
er, thinking that I would buy a lit
tle farm and settle down out there
with my family for the rest of my
life.
Output Doubled
“About two months later I camo
back to Cincinnati. I went to the
shop to find out what had happen
ed. ‘What did you expect?’ the head
of the shop asked me. He told me
that after I went away they decided
the only square thing for them to do
was to work for me to the very best
of their ability.
"Although We had been working at
full capacity before, we did twice as
much without expanding our plant,
because everybody who had been
using his skill to devise methods of
loafing used it to work. We expand
ed and bought new Jfuildings.
"If the heads of industries In this
country do not intend to take their
employes into their confidence around
the council table they should never
have let them attend the public
schools.
"Humnn brotherhood Is the only so
lution of the problem. Employers
will find, as I have, that the mass
mind can be as valuable in suggest
ing improvements in a business as the
board of directors If given the oppor
tunity.
“There are just two things the
workers of this country want,’ ’Mr.
Nash continued. "Those things are
justiee and self-expression. High
wages, short hours, lunch rooms, free
medical attention —these in them
selves are not the solution of the la
bor problem. They will fail unless
the men are convinced that their em
ployer is giving them a square deal.
“We do not assert we have found
any mechanical formula In our fac
tory for the application of the Golden
Rule. We have applied it in many
different ways. We wanted, of course,
to give to the workers what they
produced—for that is what we should
have desired In their place. First we
suggested to them a profit-sharing
plan. They themselves voted this
down, and said they would trust us to
figure out the woeklv wage on the
basis of their production."
So thoroughly did the contagion of
the Golden Rule idea inoculate the
workers of the factory that they
themselves petitioned to somewhat
alter the profit-sharing plan Mr. Nash
had installed—petitioned for a change
which would cut down the profits of
the more highly paid workers and give
larger profits to the more poorly paid
employees; a real Golden Rule sug
gestion.
A “Golden Rule” Suggestion
This is the petition which surprised i
and delighted Mr. Nash:
"Realizing that the A. Nash Com
pany is using every effort to be truly
just and democratic, and realizing
that In making the final adjustment
of wages on the profit-sharing basis,
a very large share of this final pay
ment, as at present intended, would
go to those making big wages . . .
we the undersigned, all of whom are
drawing a weekly wage of over sixty
(360) dollars, do hereby petition the
management to distribute the work
ers’ share of profits on the basis of
time worked instead of on the basis
of wages drawn.
“This will give those making the
smaller wages an equal dividend with
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NEWS NOTES ON
HEALTH GIVEN BY
LAMAR BLDG. M.D.'S
On Page Seven of This
Section Can Be Found
Some Valuable Sugges
tions Regarding Health.
More Doctors in the Build
ing Than Any Other Line
Every reader of The Herald will
do well to turn to Rage 7 of this
section and read the “Pertinent
Paragraphs on Health” submitted
by the doctors of the Lamar build
ing. They are terse, to the point
and contain many valuable sug
gestions and some information con
cerning health, generally, with
which the average human being is
probably unfamiliar.
In emphasizing the importance of
a person taking care of himself
properly, one of the writers asks
the pointed question: “What price
would a man not pay for his health
after he has lost it?” This tends
to stress the point that a person
really never appreciates the value
of health until It is lost.
Another doctor mentions the
fact that many people nowadays
are having periodical health ex
aminations mado by competent
physicians in order not to let their
bodies get into such a shape that
they cannot successfully combat
ordinary disease germs. It Is point
ed out further that a thorough in
vestigation throughout the coun
try shows that the mortality among
those who submit to regular medi
cal examinations is considerably
lower than among those who do
not.
The doctors in the Lamar build
ing, as a whole, are regarded as a
fine lot of men in the profession
as can be found anywhere in the
state. They are efficient, courteous
and of splendid character.
There are thirty-one doctors In
the building, many of whose suites
are equipped with modern labora
tories, operating rooms, X-ray
rooms, etc. They largely out num
ber any other business or profes
sion represented in the building.
those making the larger one, and we
believe It is not only needed by them,
but Is just and in keeping with the
policy of our company. We are sure
this will be appreciated by all the
help." .
Of course, not everybody is in com
plete sympathy and harmony with
Mr. Nash and his method of operat
ing his Golden Rule clothing facto
ries. The labor unions do not ap
prove of his business methods, be
cause he will have nothing to do with
organized labor. Mr. Nash Is con
vinced that it is necessary to have an
"open shop” in order to apply the
Golden Rule.
Other clothing manufacturers do
not like Mr. Nash’s methods, and he
has received some opposition from
them.
Mr. Nash does not believe that rais
ing wages will necessarily increase
production or profits. Along with this
increased living wages must go all
the brotherhood feeling which the
Golden Rule means, he Inslstß. He
does not advise other manufacturers
to follow his example unless they are
really In earnest and have first in
mind the Golden Rule for Its own
sake. An effort to pretend to apply
the Golden Rule chiefly with an eyn
to Increased production and profits Is
not likely to succeed he thinks.
S23JO
SUIT OR OVERCOAT
NO MORE-NO LESS
~ Copy rig hi by Harris ti- Ewing. Ji
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States was the statue of General Andrew Jackson, located In
l-afayette Park, Just opposite the White House. The statue
was unveiled Jail. 2, 18.13. The sculptor was Clark Mills of
Washington. It is made of cannon captured from the British
by General Jackson,
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DISTRICT MANAGER.
MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK
/ 608 Lamar Building.
B. WOOD, Representative
1212 LAMAR BUILDING
Takes pleasure in announcing the opening of the A. NASH office in Au
gusta. The Fall and Winter line of woolens is a wonder and the greatest
values on earth today—it would be a pleasure to show you.
Phone 577 For Appointment
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That Protestant husbands and wives are living In sin.
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