buyers of the simplest sort of presents at Christmas or other times. 
We should have the same severe penalties here." 
Glen Brothers, Inc., Rochester, N. Y. 
"We should like to emphasize our answer to question No. 5: 
That under no circumstance will we permit any commission or 
gratuity of any character to professional gardeners, etc. We are 
aware that we lose business on account of this." 
Harrison's Nurseries, Berlin, Maryland. 
"We do not give commissions, gratuities or presents at Christmas 
or any other time. This is a bad practice and should be discontinued 
as early as possible." 
H. A. Dreer, Inc., Philadelphia. 
"We give no commissions, gratuities or presents at any time to 
professional gardeners. We are not prepared to buy trade or do 
business in that way." 
The Rhode Island Nurseries, Newport, R. I. 
"I do not give any commissions, gratuities or presents to gar- 
deners. I do not think it right to give something to them because 
it will not give us any profit at all; or again, a much larger price 
must be charged to the cHent to cover the cost. This would not be 
fair treatment to the cHent and not right on the part of the dealer." 
Mr. William Warner Harper, Andorra Nurseries, Philadelphia, 
is emphatically opposed to the giving of commissions and calls 
attention to the report of the Federal Commission lurging the passage 
of a law to prevent briberies in trade. 
Federal Commission is Urging Legislation to Prevent 
Bribery in Trade, Stating that Commissions are Some- 
times 20 PER CENT OF VaLUE OF THE GoODS SOLD. 
Washington, May 16 — Enactment of "a sufficient law striking 
at the unjustifiable and vicious practises of commercial bribery" was 
urged on Congress today by the Federal Trade Commission. 
Every person participating in any such transaction should be 
reached by a criminal statute, in the opinion of the conunission, 
which recounted that investigation has revealed commercial bribery 
to be general throughout many industries. Scores of complaints 
have been issued against firms guilty of the practice, but the com- 
mission, having no criminal jurisdiction, has been unable to punish 
individuals, and has had to deal with commercial bribery only as 
an unfair method of competition. 
"It should be noted" says the commission, "that the practice 
appears to have been most general on the part of concerns in intro- 
ducing the goods and wares to German firms." 
