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...This situation has been brought about by slipshod administrative and financial control, and by lack of care in the selection of employes. . . . 41% of the culprits had been employed less than six months . . . [and] 58% of them were addicted to drink or debauched living. . . . Bookkeeping methods have been so lax that many of the embezzlements were discovered only when trusted employes were observed to be spending too readily...
...This mistake (due to a lax printer) once occurred in TIME...
...great flea in this case is the Bootleg Industry, which preys on Lax Citizens. The smaller flea is represented by the type of thing expressed in the following letter, which was sent out last week to scores of reputable citizens in one of the larger cities of the country by a firm situate in one of the best streets: This is not front the Anti-Saloon League nor from a prohibition crank. It is from analysts who know their subjects...
...minor cases belonging to several other categories. Lately, in regard to the enforcement of the prohibition laws, she has been making quite a stir. At one time or another she has taken shots at some 45 Federal District Attorneys and other Federal officers whom she believed to be lax. Since Attorney General Stone came to office-came from the law school instead of the school of politics-her attacks are beginning to be backed up by dismissals. In Boston, one attorney was summarily removed; and it looks as if her lightning might next strike in New Jersey, where there...
...competition in foreign markets." Now it is an elementary fact in political economy that prosperity results from efficiency; and it is generally recognized that monopoly is not conducive to such efficiency. In so far as the tariff gives a monopoly privilege to business, just so far can it be lax and inefficient. What have "built up America" are the wealth of resources, the industry and ingenuity of her people, the general efficiency of business management. Trusts have been baleful except in so far as they have been efficient; and even then they have benefited not the people as a whole...