From the June 1925 issue of The Rotarian, provided by Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler "The Four-Way Test was written by Chicago Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor – RI President 1954-55 – during a business crisis in 1932 and adopted by Rotary International in January 1943. From time to time, we probably all have problems to live according to the four principles, especially to the first one "Is it the Truth?" Years before, Rotarian Harry Botsford seemed to have foreseen our problem with these principles and put them into perspective in his article, published in The Rotarian, June 1925, "We Lie Alike"." Dr. WZ
"If," I replied, "I inadvertently walked off with some of your cheap pencils you may be assured that the act was purely absent‑minded concentration on some of the great problems of the day, matters…
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