Golden Rule

Who was "Golden Rule" Jones,

 

 Samuel Milton Jones was born in 1846 in Ty Mawr Bedd, Gelert, in North Wales. As a small boy, he immigrated to the eastern United States with his parents. After starting out in the then-new oil industry in
Pennsylvania and following its westward expansion, he began manufacturing oil  field drilling equipment in
Toledo, Ohio, in 1894.
He soon earned a reputation for honest  business and for fair dealings with the workers in his employ.
The story goes that he said his factory needed only

one policy -the well-known Golden Rule
("Do unto others as you would have them do unto you") - (무엇이든지 남에게 대접을 받고자 하는대로 너희도 남을 대접하라)

and he   dramatically nailed a plaque with that  phrase to the factory wall.
As an employer, he was ahead of his time, a true maverick who ?walked his talk.? Workers at his
factory enjoyed an eighthour working day (instead of the usual ten), a one-weekvacation, paid holidays,
insurance, plus a park and playground. He also did away with bosses and timekeepers,

and held employee picnics.
Toward the end of the 1800s he became mayor of Toledo, and served four terms,

becoming the city’s most respected and popular political leader and achieving fame across the nation
and around the world.
As mayor, he championed the public park system and public ownership of utilities.

He also replaced policemen’s nightsticks with walking sticks andrefused to prosecute socalled
"morality laws,"
which he felt were unfair to the poor.
Applying his principles to his business and political endeavors earned him immense respect and affection

as well as his nickname. In  1904, at the age of 57, Mr. Jones died suddenly while still in off ice.

Not surprisingly, his funeral was said to be the largest and bestattended in the city’s history.