question. In America we sometimes assume
that it is a virtue belonging only to past
generations. But every time the honor or
integrity of the country is threatened, a multitude
of eager citizens volunteer in its defense.
Likewise, many a business man who has
come to think his workmen interested only in
the wages he pays them, discovers in his hour
of need an unsuspected asset in their devotion
to the welfare of the business, and their willingness
to make sacrifices to bring it past the
cape of storms.

Study of any field, of any single house, or
of any of the periods of depression which have
afflicted and corrected our industrial progress,
will convince one of the unfailing and genuine
loyalty of men to able and considerate em-

ployers. So generally true is this, indeed, that
``house patriotism,'' ``organization spirit,'' or
``loyalty to the management'' is accepted
by all great executives as one of the essential
elements in the day-by-day conduct of their
enterprises.

Striking exhibitions of this loyalty may wait
for an emergency. Unless it exists, however,
unless it is apparent in the daily routine, there
is immediate and relentless search for the