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4. To advertise

4. To advertise
/ 8. To take part in any competition
which has not received the approval OF
the Institute or TO continue TO act as
/ professional adviser after il has been
/ determined that the programme cannot
DE so drawn as to receive such ap-
proval.
6. To attempt in any way. except as
a duly authorized competitor, 20 secure
work for which a competition is IN
progress. =.
7. To attempt to influence, either di-
rectlv or indirectly. the award of a
competition in which he is compel
itor
<. To accept the commission to do
the work for which a competition has
been instituted if he has acted in an
advisory capacity. either in drawing the
programme or in making the award.
9. To injure falsely or maliclously,
directly or indirectly, the professional
reputation, prospects or business OF
fellow architect.
10. To undertake a commission while
! the claim for compensation, or dam
ages. or both, of an architect previous
" employed and whose employment has
been terminated remains unsatshed,
arbitration or issue has been Joined at
law. or unless the architect previously
employed neglects 10 press his claim
legally.
II. To attempt TO supplant fellow
architect after definite steps have been
taken toward his employment, e. e., by
submitting sketches for project for
which another architect has been au-
thorized 10 submit sketches.
~. To compete knowingly with n fell
low architect for employment on the
basis of professional charges.
For the detached observer this makes
rather grimly humorous reading. He
has always heard Of architecture as one
of the "gentlemanly" professions. To
him il seems incredible that any of its
members should need to have the un-
written laws of ordinary, housebroken
behavior reduced to formal code and
promulgated by the very organization
to which he belongs. Yet we have
heard in our time some hair-raislng
anecdotes of "jobs" clearly predestlned
for A, say, and by some esoteric proc
ess ingeniously diverted into the hands
of B. In short. architects, like other
folk, would seem TO be human. II the
Institute thinks it desirable 70 publish
the canons cited above the institute
presumably knows what it is about and
iaymen can only applaud the resolution
of the profession TO promote high
/ ideal of conduct But there is one
point raised by this document on which
we cannot forbear offering some com
ment
! Article four makes it unprofessional
20 advertise. a quite comprehensive
and Just prohibition. Ii leaves the
/ architect free, of course, to enjoy such
publicity as may come to him through
/ the periodicals that. on their own mo.
/ ton, are always seeking architectural
material for their pages, and through
/ the exhibitions. But the periodicals
aforesaid are, in a good many instances,
OF very special character and cireu-
/ late almost exclusively among archl-
tects. builders and the allied trades or
/ crafts. As for the exhibitions, there IS
/ only one held annually in New York,
/ for example, which pretends 10 put the
architect into the foreground, and that,
! the exhibition OF the Architectural
League, is of mixed value. We had
occasion only a few weeks ago to speak
in some detail OF the untoward condi-
lions which affect it. At the best 1t is