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Heretofore a resolution for an investigation has been referred to the Committee on Audit & Control of Contingent Expenses, the chief function of which has been to estimate the probable cost of the investigation (cost of clerks, stenographers, transportation cost for witnesses, etc.). Then the resolution for an investigation has been voted on by the Senate. Generally it has been passed because Senators do not care to lay themselves open to the charge of having helped the Administration cover up its defects...
...Saturday Evening Post, gigantic veteran of magazines, last week celebrated its heartiness and health by increasing its advertising rates. The reason given was increased circulation, evidenced by the following figures representing net paid circulation as certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations...
...World Advertising Conven- tion in London, President O. C. Harn of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (touchstone of the publishing business) reminded his hearers of un mot credited to Stanley Clague of Chicago, also prominent in the A. B. C. Mr. Clague once saluted advertising as "the Fifth Estate" of contemporary society, recalling a salutation of Edmund Burke, famed English orator, who styled the Press "a Fourth Estate," more powerful than the three recognized estates of England in his day-the lords temporal, the lords spiritual, the Commons...
...explaining how these specimens may best be caught, the bulletin declares, "The audit winged biting mosquitoes, may be collected most, conveniently when they have some to rest upon the surface of a window pane or wall. Take a widemouthed bottle and place in it a tuft of cotton saturated with a small amount of "Carbona" cleaning fluid. Place the bottle quickly over the mosquito which will be soon overcome by the fumes. Then transfer it to a small pill box-between two layers of cotton." A pill box with several specimens may then be sent by mail without fear...
Senator James A. Reed?that rara avis a Democratic irreconcilable? proposed and the Republican majority assented. Several weeks ago Senator Reed presented a resolution, one of many, for an investigation. The resolution lay contently in the Committee on Audit and Expenses. But Reed, whose anti-League of Nations activities had moved former President Wilson to suggest that he be not reelected (and who nevertheless was reelected in 1922 by an increased majority), had resources. His anti-League proclivities gave him a certain standing in the Republican camp...