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Show oo PIN A NICE MEDAL ON BUSINESS, PLEASE The latest repnn of iqo federal Hade commission pins a nice medal on 1 American business. The report show s i tiow well busines practices business nonesty and plays lair in the lield mong other things, the report proves hat thr- commission doesn't seek to listurb business l.i oi litil' mil in leed of such attention; that it does eek to eliminate business practices) infair in other business or the public.' Sini'H ils in p hi i7A I ion nlnwist tt j years ago. the commission has re -ied 19'Ji complaints of alleged un-tair un-tair competition. That's less than fQO ;i (-ar. an insituit icant percentage in a country whern bu-iness plaf 'SUCh a large ami active role in life. rQf these complaints a ere dis missed, wee in process "t eianii 'nation at the time lh report was pre-I'. pre-I'. iied. leasing 131 applications deemed worth t formal complaint by the j commission. That is truly a fine business record Here's a commission charged with lh duty oi combing llie country for acts I ol unfair competition in buslnebs. and Since March 16, 1915. it has been able I to nail dow n the charge in only 461 in stances. When one compares the f1 lure with the lotal of individuals an.1 COI'porathlPfl doing business in th United Statfi one is Impressed with the com id ion that business ha learned that while competition 1i thp ljfe of trade, unfair competition is its death. Business, evident ly, had come In know mmii non bdiin nitiflf.- said: "I nfaii methods of nnniHii in commerce are hereby declared un lawful" Tlir f. ilrr.il 1 1 ride commissmn found a pretty well ordered house of busj i ess when the commission began its investigation in 1915; the house has I'becn kept fairly SO e er since. The U ommission has found some rats in Ihe J business structure; these are being exterminated, ex-terminated, as rapidly as possible, j Their extermination is in the interest I of business anl the public I Bui, on Hie whole, businets as it is transacted in America, may well be pi oud of its record. J oo |