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JOHN EDWIN PRICE, B. D., Service Manager for The A. Nash Company, Manufacturing Tailors, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Service Branches in Fifty-Four Leading Cities.



Acquaintance Notes
JOHN EDWIN PRICE was born in a Methodist parsonage, the seventh of thirteen children.

Since leaving home at the age of fourteen, his experiences have included that of newsboy, printer, salesman, Chautauqua lecturer, minister and writer.

For five years he was minister of the church of which the late Arthur (Golden Rule) Nash was a member, three years of which time he was dean of the Broadwell School (non-sectarian), Cincinnati.

In 1927 he resigned his pastorate to edit the Nash Journal, weekly; a magazine founded to promote humanizing influences in industry, tolerance in religion, and a warless world.

Mr. Price concluded his pastoral work as minister of a Community Church composed of Methodist and Disciples groups.  He is a member of the Walnut Hills Congregational Church.

The book for salesmen, Big Bill Stories, is from his pen.  Success Via the Golden Rule is ready for the publisher.




Preaching and Practicing the Golden Rule
(An editorial in the Epworth Herald for March 16, 1929)

JUST a little while before he died, Arthur Nash said to some of his friends, The time is coming when I must leave you, but this work which I have started must go on to the glory of God.  To carry on this work, John Edwin Price, at one time the pastor of Golden Rule Nash, was made service manager for the company.  His duties include the promotion of humanizing influences within the factory, furthering the Golden Rule spirit with the salesmen, and urging the application of the gospel of Christ to the problems of human relationship as they arise in business and industry.  Beside proclaiming this message from the pulpit and platform, Dr. Price is supplying weekly editorials on some phase of practical Christianity to cover a thousand house organs, trade journals, and church bulletins.

When the world is wavering between the theory of the autocracy of wealth and power and the principle of the democracy of co-operation and service, every ounce of influence that can be brought to bear on the human value side of the scales is needed.  Dr. Price preaches by tongue and pen that in giving the Golden Rule Jesus was not merely airing a bit of Oriental fragrance, but was proclaiming a method of approach to the law governing human relationships, which will not only solve but eliminate problems just as surely as the law of gravity operates in the physical world.

When the news-stands are crowded with periodicals that decry our times and sneer at the principles of Jesus, it is encouraging to know of the work of this ambassador of the new evangelism, as he likes to call himself.

One swallow does not make a summer, and men like Arthur Nash and Norman Hapgood cannot transform modern industry.  But they do bear eloquent testimony to the fact that Jesus taught a better way of life than that which is exhibited in modern industry, and they fan into a brighter flame the hope that in business and in international relations men will turn from Corsica to Calvary and listen not to Napoleon, but to Jesus, the Prince of Peace and Goodwill.



Goodwill in Business
(An editorial in the Morning Chronicle, Manhattan, Kans., March 15, 1929.  Dr. Price had addressed the Chamber of Commerce March 19th)

THE ambassador of goodwill who spoke at the Chamber of Commerce banquet last night brought a message which was new to some, familiar to others, but applicable to all.  It was the message of the prophet looking into the future, the pronunciamento to the man of today interpreting today's tendencies with the greatest clarity of conception and comprehension of insight.

Today more than ever it behooves man to exercise discretion in separating the dross from the gold.  We are literally swamped with the second rate and artificials seeking to swerve our attention from the original, genuine and worth-while.  Barrels of printer's ink are poured daily upon tons of paper which are turned through presses and broadcast upon the world as malicious purveyors of obscene, salacious matter.  Even in the field—a very wide one—of strictly decent and elevating reading material, we must use keen discriminatory powers to select those things for our attention which will help us without taking too much of our time.  So we must choose and choose carefully in all things.  Millions are harassed by the vexatious here-and-now simply because yesterday they never looked up to see where they were going.  They are on a thorny road with barbed wire entanglements on either side and a steam roller behind, and despite weariness and uncertainty cannot relax, but must keep on going, whither they know not nor why.

Society as a whole may well fall into the same ruts, unless it heed the influence of those leaders in the vanguard of the worthwhile who seek to stress the things of permanent value.  Such principles as liberty, equality, fraternity, justice, have for so long been paraded as worthy of pursuit, that we unthinkingly accept them as commonplace adjuncts of our civilization, when in reality they may be applied only part of the time or to a partial degree.  We can't sit down one day and write out a routine by which our progeny into distant generations can live, but must adapt newly arising circumstances to suit the principle, not only each generation, but some times within a decade, or even a year.  Life is dynamic and becomes volcanic unless caution is observed in application of the principle to the act.  So any individual or organization seeking to effect adjustments as between the worthwhile principle and the act is deserving of commendation and emulation.

Hence the goodwill ambassador, whether he be Lindbergh flying to Mexico and Latin America, or a Price spreading the doctrine of the Golden Rule applied to business, is an individual who cannot be too widely advertised.




What Editors and Others Say
February 12, 1929.

The series of six commentaries on the industrial situation that you sent me are most interesting.  I do not wonder at the willingness of the magazines throughout the country to reprint them.

R. G. MACLENNAN, Industrial Secretary, Y. M. C. A., Houston, Texas.

February 5, 1929.

I have your circular letter of the 31st with the first batch of your Practical Paragraphs.

We heartily commend your splendid work and feel sure that it will be a constructive work among the thinking and even the busy class.

F. L. ROWE, Manager, Christian Leader, 422 Elm Street, Cincinnati, O.

February 5, 1929.

We shall be glad to receive Dr. Price's Practical Paragraphs and will use them from time to time.  We use around 1,200 for our monthly house organ.

FRANCIS WARD, Office Secretary, Y. M. C. A., Greensboro, N. C.

February 5, 1929.

Many thanks for this very generous offer.  These paragraphs will do worlds of good.

E. L. FROST, 625 Eighth Street, Boone, Iowa.

February 7, 1929.

Your recent letter, enclosing a series of articles on the application of the Golden Rule, has been received, and I am writing to thank you for the valuable articles you sent me.  I am turning these articles over to Mr. G. L. Morelock, General Secretary of our Laymen's movement and the Editor of our Laymen's magazine, entitled The Methodist Laymen.

From my standpoint, your articles would add much interest to the columns of this journal.

With best wishes and thanking you for the articles, I remain,

FRED T. BARNETT, Associate Secretary, General Board of Lay Activities, 810 Broadway, Nashville, Tenn.

February 20, 1929.

Kindly place the International Association of Lions Club, Activities Department, on your list to receive Dr. Price's Practical Paragraphs as described in your letter of November 9, 1926.

H. A. HILL, Assistant Secretary, Lions International Department of Activities, 232 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill.

March 15, 1929.

I received the first batch of Practical Paragraphs from you, and they really are very good indeed.

I am mighty glad that I have gotten in touch with you.

JOHN THOS. JENKINS, Editor, The Kansas City Freemason.

February 27, 1929.

We have always been interested in the experiments conducted by the Nash Company and on several occasions have published stories about Mr. Nash or about the Company in the Front Rank, our paper for young people and adults.  We shall be very glad to receive Dr. Price's Practical Paragraphs and hope to find a place for all of them in our publication.

O. Y. ANDERSON, Editor Front Rank, Christian Board of Publication, Beaumont and Pine Streets, St. Louis, Mo.

February 11, 1929.

I have received the first lot of Practical Paragraphs.  I have enjoyed them very much.  This is a fine enterprise.

REV. H. B. KERSCHNER, The First Reformed Church, Philadelphia, Pa.

March 28, 1929.

We are glad to have your paragraphs, and they contain a great deal of wisdom and truth and make interesting reading material.

I will use some of your paragraphs, for I know they will be of interest to Mixer readers.

BRONSON B. TUFTS, Editor The Mixer, Wilmington, Del.

March 28, 1929.

I am sure you will be interested in the enclosed note from one of our Bronx Men readers.

W. F. LANGDON, Boys' Work Director, Bronx Union Branch Y. M. C. A., Bronx, New York City.

Letter is as follows:

Upon reading Bronx Men last evening I just could not help but notice the article concerning 'Fraternity.'  Allow me to congratulate you on the publication of this splendid write-up by John Edwin Price, Service Manager of The A. Nash Company.

It is indeed edifying, instructive and inspirational, and I am sure it points out to the members of 'Bronx Union' the necessity of a fraternity here in this branch.

F. F. MAEHHOLDER, Room 220.

P. S.—Here's hoping many more articles of this type will appear in Bronx Men.

W. F. LANGDON.

February 4, 1929.

I have just received an announcement indicating that you are sending out without cost or obligation to the receiver Practical Paragraphs urging a right relation and spirit in modern industry.  I believe that we can use such paragraphs to good advantage in the Religious Telescope, and so am accepting your offer to send them to us without cost or obligation.

We heard Mr. Nash at Rotary Clubs and church gatherings with great interest and profit, and believe that he set a fine example in all industries.

I trust that you will carry on the same fine spirit of co-operation and meet with the same splendid success.

J. W. SHOWERS, Religious Telescope, Dayton, Ohio.

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