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...unwholesome, disastrous and if I may use emphatic language a damnable thing that our fellow citizens should be allowed to feed their vanity on a dish which dulls and warps the brain. If there is a law against this, I should like to see TIME advocate its strict enforcement. If there is none, at least do not swell and pamper vanity by giving to the snatchers after Chinese, Papist or French ribbons the free publicity in which they dote. REGINALD SUTTON...
...eminently simple and sensible project for debate. As a plan to be urged upon Congress it is premature, because all plans to add a dash of common sense to the Prohibition mass of emotional pottage are premature. A Congressional majority theoretically (and in part hypocritically) in favor of strict enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and existing legislation under it we will have with us until public opinion shifts far more pronouncedly than it has as yet. And I see no probable cause of such a shift until the fallacy, tyranny, and essential unconstitutionality of the Eighteenth Amendment are made generally...
...students who replied to the questionnaire, 458 said that they thought prohibition a failure. As a solution to the problem, 352 suggested government control, 101 were in favor of light wines and beer, 82 favored strict enforcement, and 65 declared for total repeal...
Cyrus H. K. Curtis, of the Curtis Publishing Company and the Curtis-Martin newspapers, was awarded the gold medal for distinguished contemporary service to advertising. Mr. Curtis earned this medal because of strict adherence throughout his distinguished career as a publisher to the requirement, which he initiated, of high standards of reliability in advertising; because of the effort and encouragement which he has given to secure better typography and reproduction in magazines; and because of the example of wholesome journalism which he has furnished...
...firm's own operating figures expressed as percentages of net sales. It costs the firm nothing to join in this research inasmuch as the expense of the study is being defrayed by the National Retail Dry Goods Association. All figures received at the Bureau are held in strict confidence and the names of firms assisting in this research will never be revealed...