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...this slashing introduction by pointing out that the Department of Commerce has no authority to prosecute illegal combines; that he had made frequent recommendations for action against illegitimate trade associations, that he has never supported "open price associations," that the Webb-Pomerene Act was passed by Congress to avoid restraint of trade in this country, that Federal licenses are worthless in halting operations of foreign monopolies selling...
...cities. Last year successful operation by the Loening Aircraft Co. was terminated by a fatal accident to H. Cary Morgan (TIME, July 30), but the route remains a most promising one, and the airport (built at great expense by the Newport Chamber of Commerce) is still available. To avoid the treacherous air currents and busy traffic of the East River, or the lower Hudson, the planes would fly between Newport and New Haven, connecting with fast New York trains. Instead of a painful and lengthy journey from Newport to Wickford, Wickford to Wickford Junction by train, Wickford Junction...
Publicity may be either a boon or a burden. To those who get too much, it is certainly a burden. For such mortals a book should be written telling the proper etiquette when confronted by reporters or news photographers. They should be told, if possible, how to avoid the obloquy which the tinted press heaps upon their slightest slips in press etiquette...
Perhaps it may not always be possible to avoid such obloquy. Consider the case of Gaston B. Means, summoned to testify before the Senate Committee investigating Attorney General Daugherty (see Page 2). Detectives, like diplomats, are hardened to publicity. Mr. Means may have pictured to himself the photographs of misbegotten individuals appearing in the Daily News, Manhattan gumchewers' sheetlet, or other kindred papers. The poor unfortunates had tried to hide their faces from the camera. As result their portraits were printed with such remarks as "the alleged - shamedly covering his face" or "the notorious - cowering before the camera...
...There is one other exhortation which I should like to give you. Avoid to the utmost introspection. Avoid dwelling on your own state of mind. Does that seem to you opposite from the direction I last gave you? I said you should seek to find out where you could get joy in work. No, the joy in work which you will need does not involve self-reference. It does involve study on your part and with the help of teachers and friends, attention to what calling there is, in which you will find joy. But it does not involve introspection...