574 THE PRINCIPLES OF SELF-CREATION
Despite the fact that my partner was assassinated before our
plans had barely gotten started, and Judge Gary died before the Law
of Success philosophy could be adapted for the Steel Corporation,
that fateful night when I spoke to an audience of thirteen in Canton,
Ohio, started a chain of events that now move rapidly without thought
or effort on my part, and many well-known companies have since
purchased the Law of Success course for their employees.COMMENTARY
Comparing Hill's information here with that in A Lifetime of Riches, considerable
detail has been omitted. His relationship with Mellett in 1926 was an example
of a Master Mind alliance, and it was Mellett who was now encouraging Hill to
develop his research into a book.
At this same time it was learned that Prohibition gangsters were selling
narcotics and bootleg liquor to schoolchildren in Canton, and members of the
local police force were being bribed to do nothing about it. Mellett was outraged
and wrote an expose in the Canton Daily News, while Hill contacted the governor
to implement a state investigation of the corrupt police department. Most others
in a position to do anything further about it, however, were all too intimidated
by the gangsters to take action.
A week before the scheduled meeting with Judge Gary, Mellett was
ambushed outside his home and assassinated by a gangster and a renegade
cop. The same would likely have happened to Hill had he not been delayed by car
trouble. But on his return home he received a phone call from that same cop,
warning him to get out of town. A few more calls, and Hill spent the next several
months in hiding at the home of relatives in the mountains of West Virginia.
During those months Judge Gary took ill and died, as did Hill's hopes of
having his success course published at that time.There are many sound reasons why you should develop the habit of
performing more and better service than that for which you are paid.