PROFESSIONS AND OF BUSINESS

The Annals

VOLUME CI

MAY, 1922

With a Supplement: Modern China and
Her Present Day Problems

EDITOR: CLYDE L. KING

ASSISTANT EDITOR: J. H. WILLITS

EDITORIAL COUNCIL: C. H. CRENNAN, DAVID FRIDAY, A. A. GIESECKE, A. R. HATTON,
AMOS S. HERSHEY, E. M. HOPKINS, S. S. HUEBNER, CARL KELSEY, J. P. LICH-
TENBERGER, ROSWELL C. MCCREA, E. M. PATTERSON, L. S. ROWE,

HENRY SUZZALO, T. W. VAN METRE, F. D. WATSON

Copyright, 1922, by

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

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FOREWORD.

CONTENTS

THE ETHICS OF THE PROFESSIONS AND OF BUSINESS

Clyde L. King

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS WITH A DEDICATION.

THE INTERPROFESSIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE ON THE ETHICS OF THE PROFESSIONS

AND OF BUSINESS..

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PART I-THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ETHICAL CODES FOR THE PRO-
FESSIONS

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROFESSIONAL IDEAL: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST.

Robert D. Kohn, New York City, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects

THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS.

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R. M. Mac Iver, Professor of Political Economy, University of Toronto

THE INTERRELATIONS OF THE PROFESSIONS....

12

Charles Harris Whitaker, Editor, the Journal of the American Institute of Architects

PART II-THE ETHICAL CODES OF LAWYERS

THE ETHICS OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION...

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Henry W. Jessup, J. D., Counsellor-at-Law, New York City, Chairman, Committee of

Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association; formerly, Chairman of

Committee on Grievances and Ethics, American Bar Association

THE NEED FOR STANDARDS OF ETHICS FOR JUDGES.

29

Edward A. Harriman, Counsellor-at-Law, Washington, D. C.; formerly, Chairman,

Committee on Grievances and Ethics, American Bar Association

GROUP ORGANIZATIONS AMONG LAWYERS...

33

Herbert Harley, Secretary, American Judicature Society, Chicago, Illinois

UNLAWFUL PRACTICE OF THE LAW MUST BE PREVENTED..

Julius Henry Cohen, Counsellor-at-Law, New York City, Chairman, Committee on

Unlawful Practice of the Law and Member, Committee on Professional Ethics, New

York County Lawyers' Association

A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON LEGAL ETHICS..

......

PART III-THE ETHICS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

THE PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, TRAINING AND ETHICAL CODES OF

PHYSICIANS, DENTISTS, NURSES AND PHARMACISTS.....

A. D. Whiting, M. D., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

PART IV-THE ETHICAL CODES OF THE ENGINEERS

ETHICS AND THE ENGINEERING PROFESSION.

Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Consulting Engineer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Member

American Association of Engineers, Member, American Society of Mechanical En-

gineers

THE ETHICS OF THE MECHANICAL ENGINEER.

Calvin W. Rice, Secretary, "American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ETHICS OF THE ENGINEERING PROFESSION....

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Frederick Haynes Newell, United States Reclamation Service, Washington, D. C.

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ETHICS OF THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEER . .

Carl Hering, D. Sc., Consulting Engineer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

PROCEDURE IN DEVELOPING ETHICAL STANDARDS ADOPTED BY THE

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS..

H. W. Clausen, Treasurer of the American Association of Engineers; Chairman, Practice

Committee, American Association of Engineers

SHALL CORPORATIONS BE AUTHORIZED TO PRACTISE ENGINEERING?...

William J. Wilgus, Consulting Engineer, New York City

A PROPOSED CODE OF ETHICS FOR ALL ENGINEERS.

A. G. Christie, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and

Chairman of the Joint Committee on Ethics of the American Engineering Societies

PART V-THE ETHICS OF THE ARCHITECTS

PUBLIC INTEREST AND THE ARCHITECT...

M. B. Medary, Jr., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Fellow, American Institute of Architects

THE ETHICAL STANDARDS OF THE ARCHITECTS AND THE PROCEDURE FOR

THEIR ENFORCEMENT..

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H. W. Sellers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Fellow, American Institute of Architects

THE ARCHITECTURAL STUDENT AND HIS RELATION TO PROFESSIONAL

PRACTICE....

Emil Lorch, Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan, Member of the American

Institute of Architects and President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Archi-

tecture

114

PART VI-ETHICAL STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS, MINIS-
TERS AND SOCIAL WORKERS

CODES OF ETHICS FOR THE TEACHING PROFESSION.

121

George Gailey Chambers, University of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Ethics Commis-

sion of the Pennsylvania State Education Association

PRINCIPLES OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND TENURE OF THE AMERICAN

ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS.

127

F. S. Deibler, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

THE ETHICS OF LIBRARIANSHIP; A PROPOSAL FOR A REVISED CODE... 138

Charles Knowles Bolton, Secretary and Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum

THE ETHICS OF THE MINISTRY...

147

S. Z. Batten, D. D., Secretary, Department of Social Education, American Baptist Pub-

lication Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

ETHICS IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE: PROPOSALS FOR A PUBLIC SERVICE

CODE...

152

William C. Beyer, Assistant Director of the Bureau of Municipal Research of Philadelphia

THE PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION OF SOCIAL WORK....

158

Mary Van Kleeck, Director of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation and

Graham Romeyn Taylor, Executive Secretary, American Association of Social Workers

PART VII-ETHICAL STANDARDS FOR JOURNALISTS

FOREWORD: ETHICS IN JOURNALISM.

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E. J. Mehren, Editor, Engineering News Record; formerly, Chairman, New York Confer-

ence of Business Paper Editors

SOCIAL VALUE OF A CODE OF ETHICS FOR JOURNALISTS: THE OREGON CODE

OF ETHICS FOR...

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Eric W. Allen, Dean of the School of Journalism, University of Oregon

THE PRACTICE OF THE KANSAS CODE OF ETHICS FOR NEWSPAPERS.... 179

Alfred G. Hill, Lawrence, Kansas, sometime reporter on certain Kansas daily papers and

on the Public Ledger of Philadelphia

THE ETHICS OF INDUSTRIAL PUBLISHING...

H. H. Norris, Managing Editor, Electric Railway Journal

188

PART VIII-THE ETHICAL CODE OF ACCOUNTANTS

ETHICS OF ACCOUNTANCY.

196

Edward P. Moxey, Jr., Ph. D., C. P. A., Professor of Accounting, University of Pennsylvania

PART IX-ETHICS IN BUSINESS

THE PROFESSION OF COMMERCE IN THE MAKING..

203

F. M. Feiker, Vice-President, McGraw Hill Company, Inc., and sometime, Assistant to

the Secretary of Commerce

THE CANONS OF COMMERCIAL ETHICS ADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL ASSO-

CIATION OF CREDIT MEN..

208

J. H. Tregoe, Secretary-Treasurer, National Association of Credit Men

HISTORY AND PRESENT STATUS OF THE "TRUTH-IN-ADVERTISING" MOVE-

MENT AS CARRIED ON BY THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE OF THE ASSO-

CIATED ADVERTISING CLUBS OF THE WORLD.

Herbert W. Hess, Advertising and Salesmanship Department, Wharton School of Finance

and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania

211

BETTER ETHICAL STANDARDS FOR BUSINESS: THE PURPOSE OF THE

COMMERCIAL STANDARDS COUNCIL..

221

Williams Haynes, President, Drug and Chemical Markets, New York City, Chairman,

Educational Committee, Commercial Standards Council

A SIMPLE CODE OF BUSINESS ETHICS....

Edward A. Filene, President, William Filene's Sons Company, Boston, Massachusetts

CAMPAIGN OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ROTARY CLUBS FOR

THE WRITING OF CODES OF STANDARDS OF CORRECT PRACTICE FOR

EACH BUSINESS AND PROFESSION...

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Guy Gundaker, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chairman, Committee on Business Methods,

International Association of Rotary Clubs

SUPPLEMENT: MODERN CHINA AND HER PRESENT DAY PROBLEMS

CHINA, OUR CHIEF FAR EAST PROBLEM.

237

W. W. Willoughby, Ph. D., Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

CHINA AND HER RECONSTRUCTION....

240

Admiral Tsai, Member of the Chinese Delegation to the Conference on the Limitation of

Armament, Washington, D. C.

THE CANONS OF ETHICS FOR LAWYERS ADOPTED BY THE AMERICAN BAR

ASSOCIATION, AUGUST, 1908...

254

PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

ADOPTED IN JUNE, 1912..

260

CODE OF ETHICS OF THE GRADUATE NURSES' ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF

PENNSYLVANIA, ADOPTED IN 1904.

265

CODE OF ETHICS OF THE NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION...

CODE OF ETHICS OF THE AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION,

ADOPTED IN 1852, AND PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACEUTICAL ETHICS PRO-

POSED BY CHARLES LA WALL FOR ADOPTION IN 1922..

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CODE OF ETHICS ADOPTED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL

ENGINEERS IN JUNE, 1914.

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