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and practice. and Asecond, substantive
rules. l believe ttts Illinois system is
highly effective.
Broker Mus. \xnew How.
"As L have said Ghe constitution
ality of this legislat \,n and it's justi-
on the theory that ii his for the pro-
lection of owners amy purchasers of
real estate from the dishonest bro
kers. and all of our actiGsas have been
predicated upon this th,Sn'y. But the
determination of what is\ honest in a
particular case is not u alwaSs Il simple
matter. Familiarity with the ten
commandments is not the all-suf
ficient equipment for the! modern real
estate broker 1t is noa enough that
he, wants to do rigtB. He must
know how to do right
4 code of ethics with "a good\sharp
bite for the guidance, of realtors
was advocated by A. H. Rarnhisel of
Tacoma, Wash, chairman of the as
sociation's committee on ethics.
I'VE can assume nothing except Il
disinclination on the part of the
public to take seriously idealism on
the part of the real estate man. Our
critics will assume that an address
on ethics at Il real estate convention
is bit OF humorous posing for "a
picture which luIls the delegates into
feeling tina {, they have impressed the
public into feeling the reverent-mind
edness of realtors. somewhat aS con-
gressmen may> have a feeling of
greater securityt,in public confilhence
when they haven opened their .s"s-
sions with prayerA
Must FixhfA Cynicisn.
We. must fight Ghis attitude of
cynicism by code ypf ethics that
has sharp teeth in it,"continued Me-.
Barnhisel. 1T is true\ that human
nature may not be chahzred by the
bylaws of a church. common wealth
or business organization. lNit within
certain limits and with tha disci-
pline of compulson by prope. penal
ties the standards of human conduct
do change, and when conduct. has be-
come habitua1 its effect is change
of character.
Amy code that We adopt, therefore.
should carry an adequate proviSa on
for its own enforcement The JAZZ
and JOY ride stage of realty opera
tlons has had it's day. 1t is the BUSH
ness Of realtors to see that the neu1
era of service to the individual and
civic responsibility has come to stay.
Our leaders must not be like certain
college presidents who hoist the white
flag of surrender.
individual and group isolations are
forever past. We can no longer en-
dure under the economic warfare which
| isola ton bred and kept alive. The
bond that limited mems loyalties to
family ties has been forced by ex-
panding intimacies to include a larger
range of loyalties-to community. to
commonwealth and to all mankind.
Every man, whether he wills or not.
has become "a brother of every man
with whom he deals. Let no man
think he is the sole owner of his OWN
business"
Rights Profession.
With the growth of the service idea
and the increasing insistence by real
estate bodies upon education of their
members. the realtor has right to
| consider his business a profession
without being placed in the same
class as the back woods pedagogue
who calls himself a professor or the
village constable who dubs himself
| Judge. Mr. Barnhisel insisted.
Just by way OF showing the realtors
| that there is nothing new under the
sun. d. D. Luckenbill. professor of
Semitic languages and literature,
Chicago University. spoke on The
Ago
The speaker drew attention to the
fact that Hammurabi, King of Baby
Ion, wrote into his code of laws,
the first code of laws known to his
torians. several sections defining the
rules of procedure in real estate
deals. In Hammurabi's code the ten
/ ant paid down a part of his rent
when he moved in and the. rest at his
| own convenience, according to the
| baked brick cuneiform documents
from which DR.. Luckenbill draws his
| information. Those were happy days
| for the renter. The poorest work
man could purchase hims a dwell
ing for a years wages or rent one
| for one-thirtieth of his income. In
stead of leVying taxes, the king car
ried on real estate operations for
| himself and looted surrounding kind
doms to fill his eXcheQuer.
Abraham OvercharEed.
DR. Luck enbill's researches uncover
the fact that when Abraham's wife.
Sarah, died in strange land and he
| bought a tomb. as the Bible recountS.
the man from whom he brought it
| it was :. worth because he was a
I stranger and his imm ediate necessity
was great
They had somewhat different ideas
about land in Babylonia," said DR..
Luckenbill. When a man mortgaged
his estate he was personally respon-
| sibfe. If he failed to meet his pay
ments the mortgagor could hold him
as a slave or take his wife and chill
dren, but the land itself could not be
larly it would not be willed to whom
ever the posseSSor willed. There
were no wills 5000 years ago. And
property in Babylonia was inherita-
BILE only by the SOMA II a man wished
to provide for his wife and daughter
he could deed land or houses to them
! while he was sti1l alive: the sons
would be responsible for nothing after
his death except dowries for their un-
married sisters"
The eight divisional meetings and
a number of committees are meeting
this afternoon.
This morning the ladies were the
guests of the director general of the
Pan-American Union in a tour of the
Pan american building, and this
afternoon are on trip to Mount Yer
| non on a specially chartered boat
accompanied by the Industrial Boys
| School Band of Birmingham, Ala.
Another automobile sightseeing trip
| will leave the Willard at 4 o'clock to