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Focuses on the newspaper, Your Newspaper's indictment of the press for wholesale abuse of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' code of ethics. Criticisms posed by the authors on business and economic reporting; Description of the failure of business news in relating a news item to its implications; Recollection of the press handling of the 1946 railroad strike as one of the most amazing performances in the annals of journalism.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to the article "The Top 500: Net Profits" in the May 15, 1969 issue.

This section offers business-related news briefs in the U.S. as of February 15, 1934. The motion picture industry has come out with clean promotional activities after the National Recovery Administration (NRA) suggested advertising censorship. The U.S. Agricultural Adjustment administration (AAA) has suggested that higher prices may come with higher farm output. The Louisiana Agricultural Experimentation Station is working on a type of sugar cane which is expected to double crop yield.

The author talks about the need for businessmen to veer away from provincialism and the measurement of business success through financial attainment but rather with the application of a code of business ethics that will give the best interest to the people.

Presents information of several events published in several journals. Assignment of writing book on Central and South Africa and Madagascar is given to Selwyn James by a publishing firm; Statement that the downfall of every nation so far has been due to desecration of the holy Sabbath day and loss of the virtue of its womanhood; Plan to make ethics and politics two separate courses by school authorities.

The article focuses on some recent issues in the United States. There is nothing that the American public relishes more than the opportunity to wallow in a sty of pseudo-moral discussion. When something happens to tarnish the national image of moral excellence, Americans try to restore its pristine brilliance by rituals of public atonement led by priestly commentators. The "silent" Americans who have been down on the "kids" lately would do well to look in the other direction once in a while for their villains. If they did, they would discover a U.S. Army Major, in uniform and with the apparent approval of Army Chief of Staff General William Westmoreland, criticizing elected members of the United States Congress.

According to progressives led by Abbot Butler of Downside, director of the Benedictine order of England, together with French, Spanish and Canadian prelates, held that mere possession of atomic weapons violates Christian morality and that distinctions between offensive and defensive war were today both useless and dangerous. The Church should therefore demand that atomic weapons be outlawed. At the same time they called for stronger recognition of the rights of conscientious objectors. American prelates, on the other hand, insisted on the recognition of the use of defensive nuclear weapons, and criticized the ban-the-bomb attitude as unrealistic. In addition to that, the article presents various other information.

This article presents a moral criticism of Vietnamese conflict of 1960's. The terrible thing is that once one stray from absolute nonviolence one opens the door for the most shocking abuses. It is like distributing scalpels to an eager group, half of whom are surgeons and half butchers. The ordinary people of Vietnam show none of the signs of a nation defending itself against "aggression," except in their noncooperation with the government and the Americans. A hundred thousand Vietnamese farmers were conducting a rebellion with mostly captured weapons.

The article features Japan, a country that is considered as Asia's wonder. The narrow string of island, which is located off the coast of Asia, is considered to be the toy land in the country. Many believed that there are other Japanese who have turned their back on what is oriental in ethics, art and manners, and recently demands the latest fashion from Paris, France. It also provides information about the people living in this country.

The article discusses the relationship between taxation and legalized gambling in the U.S. as of September 1, 1973. Topics include the advantages of lottery revenues in Pennsylvania, the public opinion on legalized gambling, and the annual amount of money gambled. The profits of sports betting, legalized betting, and the history of lottery in the U.S. are also addressed.

An interview with physical chemist Harold Clayton Urey as of July 15, 1969 is presented. When asked about the benefits of man's first landing on moon, he refers to the unknown impact of scientific research on technology. Urey emphasizes humanity's need for exploration and search for knowledge. The relationship between moon's history and the history of the solar system are also discussed.

The article focuses on career of the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Ohio Senator backed Senator McCarthy despite his knowledge that the, Wisconsin Supreme Court had found McCarthy guilty of an infraction of the moral code. When Senator McCarthy is confronted with challenges relating to his veracity and integrity, he has various standard ways of replying. The McCarthy group stigmatized the draft as a Communist smear attack, and all of them refrained from offering any factual corrections or specific suggestions for amendements. INSETS: Some Tributes Received by McCarthy;Some Attacks Made Against McCarthy;Senator McCarthy's Charges;Counter-Evidence

The article focuses on the effort of a group of businessmen under the banner of the Citizen's School Improvement Committee to reform the administration of public schools in Saint Louis (SL), Missouri. The group has launched a campaign to elect four candidates to the 12-man SL Board of Education in an election slated for April 1953. Among the changes it effected are the increase in school tax and the school building bond issue and the adoption of a formal code of ethics.

This article literary appraises the book "A Vindication, of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects," by Mary Wollstonecraft. This book serves a most useful purpose now in showing the conditions, which it has been a powerful means of changing, as it did then in setting forth women injustice and their folly. Against the immoral and indecent state of opinion concerning women, Mary Wollstonecraft uttered a vigorous protest. As a specimen of fine and impassioned reasoning, her book has seldom been surpassed.

Jack Finn, the central character in this case, is caught in a dilemma that has haunted many an entrepreneur. What are a small company president's responsibilities to minority owners when his organization comes under the control of a new and hostile owner? After reading the case and deciding how you would advise Finn, compare your opinions with those of the commentators. This case is based on an actual situation although all the names mentioned are fictitious. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to previous articles including "How to Evaluate New Capital Investments," by John G. McLean in the November-December 1958 issue, "Struggle for Ethics in Public Relations," by David Finn in the January-February 1959 issue, and "Illusion in Lease Financing," by Donald R. Gant in the March-April 1959 issue are presented.

To what extent should business respect the basic principles of the democratic process and the right of the people to make up their own minds, rather than attempt to engineer consent through whatever techniques seek to work? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article refers to the fashion trends of what is appropriate to wear and discusses fashion merchandising for women's clothing in the United States. Three aspects of fashion merchandising are: the mechanics of merchandising that involve what and when to buy; the arts of merchandising which require competition for new resources and merchandise; and the fashion feeling or good grooming that is necessary for the merchant, staff, and display. Topics include the unit control card, the biological and psychological drives in staying fashionable, quantitative and qualitative merchandising methods, the distinction between style and fashion, and basic promotional strategies.

The article refers to a controversial marketing campaign introduced by American Television Dealers and Manufacturers and proposes several commandments for ethical advertising in the United States. An advertisement offended the public at a time when the Federal Communications Commission approved a CBS color system and an excise tax was established on television receivers. The radio and newspaper advertising copy was criticized for violating good taste. Five commandments proposed by the National Better Business Bureau include the ideas that advertising should not undermine parent-child relations or coerce parents into buying the product.

Focuses on various ethical issues pertaining to politicians in the U.S. Forms of bribery in politics; Overview of ethical problems faced by politicians; Methods of political campaign financing in the country.

The article focuses on various developments around the world in 1926. In the case of the Countess of Cathcart the U.S. has touched bottom in its Pecksniffian policy of supervising the morals of private individuals, particularly those of visitors to this country; The second article focuses on a widespread and dramatic activity in corporation mergers. Free competition has seen its day, and over great and growing sections of our industrial life is dying, where it is not completely dead; The third article focuses on the negotiations begun by the new French Ambassador for the settlement of his Government's debt.

The article discusses the issue of commercial bribery in the U.S., a practice that is not recognized as an offense in many states, and in those where it is an offense, is not strictly enforced. The article addresses the economic impact of bribery on industry, focusing on its effect on prices and quality. The article notes efforts by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to eliminate the problem. The article considers other forms of bribery, including gifts and entertainment, which some may feel more comfortable accepting over cash bribes. The subsidizing of salesmen to push certain products through cash and prize incentives is also discussed. The article provides some examples of industry efforts to recognize and dissuade members from engaging in commercial bribery.

Discusses the right of individual clergymen to interpret certain articles of the creed in a symbolic, not a literal sense. Moral influence of Church on the society; View that Christianity is not the mere devotion to a principle but to a person as embodying that principle; Qualities of individual bishops in Church; Pronouncement of theological doctrines by Church; Argument pertaining to the moral commitment of Church; Administrative and judicial authorities of Church; Analysis that whether clergymen would carry their opinion into action and bring non-literalists to trial; Opinion that the progress of the church's mind does not consist in discarding old Christianity or parts of it and substituting new ideas; Description about the conservative nature of Church; Moral principles of Church.

Investigates into the rise of utilitarianism as the golden age of felicity through festivals and dances has faded away. View that Indians display their old customs at public gatherings held by the whites; Information on the Pueblo civilization, who consider ceremonial dances as the heart and religious center of their life; Fact that to a Pueblo dancing was a solemnly joyous community service, a pledge of good Indian citizenship as well as of religious faith; Discussion of the Deer Dance performed during the winter season; Statement that the theory behind the Deer Dance is, of course, a sort of sympathetic magic and the same one guides the vegetation ritual, which is still more important in Pueblo life; Influence of the whites on the Pueblo ceremonies; Reason for the opposition to Pueblo dances.

Discusses the delinquency of women. Coincidence of the emergence of a prostitute class with the development of an anomalous morality officially stamped as Christian; Statement that honourable women have been able to regard the prostitute as their one protection from outrage and spit upon her at the same time; Consequences of the dissociated morality of men; Contradiction in the views of the prostitute represent her as both a martyr and a demon, as necessary but criminal, as attractive yet repulsive, irresistible yet despicable; Reflection of the dissociated moral standards is seen in the specialized delinquency of women.

Focuses on the relation between the democracy and intellect. Existence of morality for the welfare of society; Necessity to suppress lying, theft and breach of contract to protect the society; Role of school and the church to teach the civic morality and conscience; Comments on the power of an individual person; Importance of logical education; Information on principles of logic; Role of logic in building faith in common sense; Description of relationship between the logic and morality.

The article discusses the revolt of the youth in the U.S. society. In talking about the revolt of youth one should never forget that one is dealing with a new concept. For thousands of years nobody cared what youth were doing. They weren't news. Today they are striking back. That is news. Nobody else is striking back. It has become only too apparent that one can no longer afford the old catch-as-catch-can morality with which civilization has muddled through to 1960. Sloth, rascality, predatory dishonesty, evasion, bluster, no longer work. The machinery has become too delicate, too complicated, too world-encompassing. Maybe it was once true, a hundred and fifty years ago, that the sum total of the immoral actions of selfish men produced a social good.

The article presents information about the book "A Study of the Ethics of Spinoza," by Harold H. Joachim. The present work consists of a commentary upon the `Ethic' based upon a very careful and well-considered study of the whole of the writings of Spinoza, together with those of the cream of his commentators. There is no trace in Spinoza of any direct acquaintance with mediaeval scholasticism. The Dutch Aristotelians were influenced to a considerable, but limited, extent by scholastics.

The article focuses on the developments taking place across the world as of August 3, 1916. In the third year of the first world war is advancing upon the world over heaps of predictions unfulfilled and wisdom proved folly. The view on the war have changed. War is the scourge of the human race. The amazing development of trench warfare was not foreseen. It obviously alters the whole problem of national defense. The moral judgments of the world have stood firm. Nothing which has since happened has altered them.

Focuses on American poet Robert Frost. Opposition of Frost to innovations in art, ethics, science, industry or polities; Declamation of Frost against Russians of all categories including the pessimistic Russians, the revolutionary Russians, the collectivistic Russians, and the five-year-planning Russians; Display of the sense of measure and decorum in his poems that puts him in the neo-classical tradition; Discussion of the praise heaped on Frost in recent years.

The article focuses on the responsibilities of Edward R. Stettinius as the defense commissioner in charge of raw materials in the U.S. It is stated that his job is complicated as he is in charge of rubber, tin and manganese, but the pressure has neither affected his disposition nor slowed his delivery. Before he took the defense job he resigned as chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. and also gave up his responsibilities at other charity organizations.

Focuses on the comparison between the former Mayor A. Oakey Hall and Tammy Hall's Mayor James J. Walker in New York City. Characteristics of Hall and Walker; Achievements of Walker and Hall; Similarity between Oakey Hall and Jimmy Walker; Charges of corruption against the administration of Hall and Walker; Refusal of the former mayor to resign from his position; Views of the wife of Walker about his political career.

Presents information on the position of progressive in the U.S. Relationship between the individual and the group, a serviceable instrumentality capable of achieving stated social aims; View that American intellectuals have been guilty of an excessive diversion of their energy into political channels; Information on rational intellectualism; Discussion on the major developments of capitalism; Statement that American radicalism always had a predilection for indulgence in ethical dogmatism and abstract economics.

Comments on facts associated with politics from a non voter from the U.S. Opinion on the policy of voting from the perspective of a non-jobseeking man that the author is; Justification given by the author for the statements given by him; Conditions and reasons cited by the author in the prevalent society that make voting by a common man a useless policy; Prevalence of political influence of one political party in the state that makes voting insignificant in that state.

Discusses the contents of the book "Supplements to the Letters of Horace Walpole," edited by Paget Toynbee. Number of letters to novelist and letter-writer Horace Walpole included; Representation of the mature virtuosity of Walpole's long old age; Determination of whether explicit suppression really reserve the interests of the highest morality.

This article presents information on the book "One World," by Wendell Willkie. Willkie has been engaged in two great pilgrimages The one took him around the world. The other carried him from the presidency of a public-utility corporation through a Presidential campaign to the position of an honored tribune in the U.S. The fact that he has gained in moral stature since his defeat in the election has made thinking Americans look forward particularly to this report of his trip around the world. They had reason to expect that it would be a report of the two odysseys, though it would ostensibly be a record of only the more obvious one. It is possible to report gratefully that these expectations have not been disappointed. The more spiritual pilgrimage is fairly well indicated in the process of recording the trip around the globe.

The article presents information on the strategy taken during the second world war by the countries involved. In the interest of effective strategy now and effective post-war organization one should face the ethical questions even if one do not entirely answer them. Recall the facts which have enabled the enemy at almost no military cost whatever to establish themselves in vitally important strategic positions from which one can now be dislodged only at immense sacrifice of life. If one stand upon the political principles one have proclaimed one cannot act promptly.

Of all the literary effects in circulation, the most difficult which the hard headed reader is required to look for is symbolism because there is no clear cut description in what he can read about it in advance. When language is forced to make no reference to the fixed objects and to make none to the feelings of the subject the hateful dual-ism is said to have been extinguished at last. Against the betrayal of architecture by Herbert Read someone once described Frank Lloyd meant of the late nineteenth century as a provincial genius as from Austrian and Dutch Jugendstil, though genius could be qualified from Macintosh and Voysey.

Relates the danger of having a conscience based on the life decision of Leonard Clarkson, a student of Harvard University who specialized in moral philosophy. Attendance of a lecture about the relation of conscience to public opinion; Reason that turned a personal sentiment into a logically held conviction; Literary works with contradictory statements about the prohibition.

Presents an insight into the various aspects of war. Statement that war is a great developer as well as a destroyer of life; View that the American mind cannot understand the necessity of a present sacrifice for a better future; Pacifism in America rooted in the same sentimental humanitarianism which encourages the breeding of the unfit, which shrinks in horror from any practical method of restricting the increase of diseased, degenerate and insane lives; Observation that this war is leading us all back to the basic commonplaces of thinking; Reference to the immense good that the war has done for France.

The uproar about the sinfulness of the movies is just a big, stupendous, colossal misunderstanding. The motion pictures are accused of corrupting the morals of American men, women and children. But consider who makes the accusation, a "Legion of Decency" already numbering hundreds of thousands of people and rapidly growing. By autumn it is expected that there will be at least 12,000,000 legionnaires of decency, 8,000,000 Catholics and 4,000,000 members of other denominations. By their own admission these crusaders are themselves unstained, the movies have utterly failed to corrupt them.

This article focuses on writer George Eliot. Born on November 22, 1819 and bred in a farmhouse of the Midlands, Eliot passed her youth among the mixed commonalty, roughing it with them under difficulties. George Eliot's essays, letters, note books and those discursive chapters in her novels that are laden with green-room confidences all reveal the assured belief that sympathy not only with the historical life of man but with the monotonous existences of commonplace men, is the key to our knowledge of others. The chief element of drama in George Eliot's stories is moral struggle. Large experience had taught her that there is no human being, however humble or insignificant, whose life is not a battle-ground of good and evil, of joy and misery.

The article presents information on the book "History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649," vol. III, by Samuel R. Gardiner. The author has completed his annals of the Great Civil War; he has reached the third stage in his monumental history of the age of the Stuarts. The moment is opportune for forming an estimate of his position among investigators of the past. It is the more natural to do so because Gardiner, in his last volume, pronounces a verdict on the character of Cromwell; and the extent to which one accepts Gardiner's conclusions on a most intricate question of fact and of ethics must depend on one's opinion of one's author's capacity for the discharge of an historian's judicial functions.