ÿþ<HTML> <head> <title>Gonzales Lions Clubs</title> </head> <body background="images/lionblbk.gif"> <center> <font size="6" color="000000" face="TimesNewRoman">Lions Code of Ethics</font> <P> <img src="images/lionline.gif"> <P> <font size="4" color="000000" face="TimesNewRoman"> ·ð To Show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application<BR> to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service. <P> ·ð To Seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, <BR> but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because <BR> of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part. <P> ·ð To Remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another's; <BR> to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself. <P> ·ð Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, <BR> to resolve such doubt against myself. <P> ·ð To Hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on <BR> account of the service performed by one another, but that true friendship demands nothing <BR> but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given. <P> ·ð Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, <BR> as to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. <BR> To give them freely of my time, labor and means. <P> ·ð To Aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress,<BR> my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy. <P> ·ð To Be Careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy. </font> <P> <img src="images/lionline.gif"> <P> <a href="Lionhome.html">Home Page</a><BR> </center> </body> </HTML>