August 7, 2001   *   vol. 1 (6)

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Club Meetings: 01-04. To allow the Club Board to cancel up to four regular meetings in a year and allow the cancellation of not more three consecutive meetings. 01-16. To allow the cancellation of a regular meeting due to the death of a club member. 01-530. To allow regular meetings to be cancelled due to armed conflict.
Attendance: 01-39. To allow attendance credit for attending a club sponsored community event or meeting a club board or service committee

meeting. 374-124. 01-76. To allow the club board to determine the conditions and circumstances under which a member's absence may be excused. 341-124
Club Administration: 01-125. To provide for a new club officer: Secretary - 321-177
Types of Membership: 01-148. To reduce the types of membership in clubs to active and honorary while retaining the classification principle.

Reflections on the 4-Way Test
BY  PP CRESENCIO J. FERNANDEZ

business at arm's length has improved rather than hurt business relationships.
     3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Man is by nature a cooperative creature and it is his natural instinct to express love.
     4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?  This question eliminates the dog-eat-dog principle of ruthless competition and substitutes the idea of constructive and creative competition.
     More than a code of ethics, it has all the ingredients for a successful life in every way.  The final Test is in doing.

Reference: 2001 Council on Legislation

     Herbert J. Taylor, author of the Test, was a mover, a doer, consummate salesman and a leader of Men.  He was a man of action, faith and high moral principle.
     He first wrote a statement of about 100 words but decided that it was too long. In fact, the 4-Way Test was once a Seven-Way Test.  He finally reduced it to the four searching questions that comprise the Test today.
     Next, he checked the statement with four department heads: Roman Catholic, a Christian Scientist, an Orthodox Jew and a Presbyterian.  And so "The 4-Way Test of the things we think, say or do" was born:
     1. Is it the TRUTH? There is timelessness in truth that is unchangeable.  Truth cannot exist without justice.
     2. Is it FAIR to all concerned? The substitution of fairness for the harsh principles of doing

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