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Volume 9 July 7, 1911. Number 27 
President Lowell and Public Con- 
science. 
One of the penalties of power and 
position is the accompanying re- 
sponsibility and the seriousness of 
the results from an error in judg- 
ment or action. A man who lives 
to himself may consult his own sel- 
fish ends and _ neglect the public. 
He may live his little life. It may 
go out and the world goes on. But 
let a man increase his relations and 
responsibilities increase. 
After all our life is a series of 
relations and the character of these 
relations determine the character of 
our life, or, it is better to say our 
character will determine the rela- 
tions in life which we establish with 
our relations the greater the power 
the outside world. The more wide 
relations the greater the power of 
of our actions, for righteousness or 
evil. 
So men find themselves constantly 
in perplexing situations where de- 
cisions must be made which will ef- 
fect the welfare and happiness of 
many perhaps unseen and possibly 
unknown human beings. 
Service on boards of directors 
ealls for sound judgment, keen dis- 
crimination and active imagination 
to see in the mind what will result in 
the world of action. 
The wisdom of Dr. Lowell, Pres- 
a. G. BE. WILLMONTON ... 
-Attorney and Counsellor at Law- 
ident of Harvard University, in a 
recent address is illuminating at this 
very point: 
‘“‘The keynote of the present day 
is efficiency, and men demand tangi- 
ble results as a measure of all. 
says Dr. Lowell. 
everywhere placed 
achievement, ”’ 
‘‘Emphasis 1s 
upon unselfish achievement, and al-. 
though this doctrine of good works 
is essential, it is not all. 
‘“We hold a man responsible not 
only for his conduct, but for his 
thought, not only for his acts but 
for his opinions. The first opinion 
that a man forms is in reference to 
the rectitude of his own conduct. 
It is natural for the man who is in 
a certain occupation to accept the 
code of ethics prevalent in that oc- 
cupation, and cogent arguments for 
conforming to accepted standards 
are plenty. Business is_ business, 
men say, and not charity, and we 
must conform to the ethics which 
govern the business of today. Ar- 
guments have a proper application, 
but it is easy to carry them to ex- 
cess. If men, although not actually 
dishonest, are not over-scrupulous, 
and accept without careful consider- 
ation and thought the standards that 
they seem to see in force in their 
own business, the standard of busi- 
ness integrity will have a tendency 
to be abased. Self-interest is apt to 
come in and warp a man’s judg- 
ment. 
‘‘In the business of today almost 
all large concerns are corporate, so 
that a man of large affairs is rarely 
in a position to be conscientious at 
his own expense. He is acting for 
other people, so numerous and so 
seattered that he cannot consult 
them if he will.’’ 
There is, however, one serious dif- 
ficulty which every man in public 
life will encounter sooner or later 
and that is that the official govern- 
ing boards of an enterprise may be 
governed in action by the very high- 
est motives, but must bear the blame 
and ignominy of unscrupulous un- 
der-workers in subordinate positions 
who, in order to gain a good end 
prescribed by his superiors, may use 
contemptible and unethical methods 
unknown to the governing boards. 
The fact is that the conscience of all 
needs quickening and as President 
Lowell well says one is ‘‘rarely in 
a position to be conscientious at his 
own expense.”’ 
Willmonton’s Agency 
SCHOOL AND UNIGH STS, MANCHESTER OLB SOUTH BLBG., BOSTON 
Action right or wrong has its so- 
cial implication. Never before has 
sound sense, ethical judgment and 
righteous action been needed more 
than in modern enterprise. It is 
valuable and necessary in the high 
places and it is indispensible in the 
lower walks, for the man of affairs 
needs trustworthy and _ honorable 
men to execute the plans of govern- 
ing boards. It will avail little if we 
have honor enthroned in the execu- 
tive department of an enterprise and 
dishonor rampant in the rank and 
file. 
The Pure Food and Drugs Act. 
' One of the great disappointments 
in years has been the failure of the 
so-called food and drugs act to pre- 
vent false curative claims for the 
nostrums placed upon the market. 
According to the Supreme Court dv 
cision a quack may make any clair 
concerning the curative qualities of 
the drugs provided that no untruti 
appear on the label as to its con- 
tents. At the annual meeting of the 
Massachusetts Medical society at 
Harvard University a campaign was 
inaugurated for a new federal pure 
food and drugs act anticipating the 
message of President Taft to the 
same end which followed the Su- 
preme Court Decision. The decision 
of the Court has been severely eriti- 
cized, but such is folly. The mission 
of the Court is to interpret not to 
make laws. And if in the line of 
duty they discover a situation such 
as existed in the Pure Food and 
Drugs Act, they are public bene- 
factors. That an error was made in 
the formulation of the law cannot be 
the reason for the Supreme Court 
committing the more grave error of 
misinterpretation, even for the best 
interests. In pointing out the source 
of trouble the Court shows the way 
for effective and just constructive 
legislation. The prompt message is 
characteristic of President Taft’s 
wide interest in the welfare of the 
people. 
The great service of the Supreme 
Court has inspired a new movement 
which will without doubt result in a 
more effective law than that of June 
30, 1906. ‘‘The court has deter- 
mined that the so-called pure food 
and drugs act does not prohibit 
false statements on labels or medi- 
cines so long as such statements are 
confined to curative effects and not 
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