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...American Construction Council surveys the entire industry. And gradually it is evolving a code of construction ethics, so that eventually the plumber will cease to be the classic example of robbery-within-the-law. Simultaneously, the Council is educating the 99,000,000 people who are not constructors or constructor's wives. In normal times it teaches them, for instance, when to build, when not to. Apartments and office buildings must be built according to renting seasons which for the first is October, and for the second, February. But public buildings, private houses, industrial plants should be built...
Leagues,--unions,--associations appear to control the destiny of everyone from the wealthiest plumber to the most brow-beaten President. So one is not surprised to find the Liberal Clubs of the world banded together in a Forum for self-defense and effectiveness. Furthermore, their coming "Symposium" is another of the "conferences" which grow more and more popular--where everyone brings forth his grievance and draws comfort from the troubles of the rest...
...baggage when the club goes away. During his enforced stay in the middle European republic, young Beacon has the varied experiences of running a hotel, straightening out the political tangles of the deposed kings of two small principalities, Platagravia and Czecho-Khorsaat, acting as social mentor for a plumber-profiteer from Kansas, and falling in love with a disguised princess...
...Platagravia, Newcomb Fuller '24King of Platagravia, A. A. Fiske Jr. '22Overrunner of the King of Czecho-Khorsaat, C. C. Carpenter '24King of Czecho-Khorsaat, J. F. Brown '22Reginald Beacon, a Shining Light from Boston, C. A. Gage '22Gloria, a Swiss Flower Girl, Paul Mendoza '23Mr. Everett Piper, Millionaire Plumber from Kansas, C. C. Macomber '22Mrs. Piper, L. B. Ellis '22Agnes, their daughter, P. B. Ferguson '23A Rustic, C. C. Carpenter '24A Troubadour, J. F. Lautner ocC.Louis Pierre de Soupe-Hibbon, Albert Palmer 4E.S.An Orchestra Leader, H. E. Scott Jr. '22Admiral of the Swiss Navy, Newcomb Fuller '24A Patriarch...
...their calling. Or it may be that damnable attitude which is marked throughout the whole American journalistic profession; refusal to take oneself, or what one is doing too seriously. Which is the reason I presume, why anyone attempting the duties of a physician, a lawyer, a banker, a plumber, or a clergyman, has the firm theory that he could edit a newspaper better than it is being edited, could write at least as well as anyone who is writing. The newspaper profession has no side, no hocus pocus of mystery, no grandiose flourish of technique that is in other professions...