STATIONERY

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATIONERS,
OFFICE OUTFITTERS AND MANUFACTURERS

Adopted Oct. 11, 1923:

STANDARDS OF FAIR PRACTICE

Fair and honest practices should prevail in the stationery industry to the end that our dealings with one another and with the world at large may contribute to the welfare of our Nation. We hold the following to be acceptable:

First: We owe it to ourselves to conduct our several endeavors upon a high plane of individual honor.

Second: We shall respect one another's word.

Third: We shall not accept a statement reflecting upon the good faith of another member unless it be established by convincing proof.

Fourth: We shall not resort to litigation against one another until friendly adjustment through the agency of the Association shall have proven to be impossible.

Fifth: We shall not speak disparagingly of a competitor, his products or his methods.

Sixth. We shall render to our customers the high quality of service that we require from others.

Seventh: We shall respect our customers but not permit them to dictate our business policy; neither shall we regard them as infallible sources of information concerning our competitors, or the sources of our own supplies.

Eighth: We shall not purchase the trade of our customers by any form of bribery.

Ninth: We shall endeavor to approach a decision upon all questions affecting the industry as a whole, in a broad and unselfish spirit.

Tenth: We shall constantly study our individual costs, and we hold it to be fundamental that every American citizen owes it to the community to conduct his business so as to yield a fair margin of profit. Selling below what it costs to make the sale destroys the good name of the product, the good will of the seller's business and the respect of the buyer.

Eleventh: Price discriminations in favor of certain retail dealers, whereby they are enabled unfairly to compete with other retail dealers, are morally as well as legally wrong, and we condemn them as unfair.

Twelfth: The imitation of another's product, or lines of merchandise, by adopting similar or the same name, color, number, arrangement, design or other distinguishing feature, is wrong, and if established, should lead to suspension or expulsion from this Association.

Thirteenth: The cash discount, where allowed, is an essential form of every contract of sale, and should be strictly and honorably adhered to. Violations should be treated as a breach of contract.

Fourteenth: Dealers are in good faith bound not to return merchandise to a manufacturer without just cause and the consent of the manufacturer.

Fifteenth: A retail dealer is one who carries a stock of merchandise to sell to the consumer.

Sixteenth: A wholesale dealer or jobber is one who carries a stock of merchandise to sell to a retail dealer or other distributor for resale.

Seventeenth: A manufacturer is one who fabricates a finished product for sale to a distributor or to the consumer.

Eighteenth: A consumer is one who destroys the exchangeable value of a commodity by using it.

We undertake to adhere to the foregoing principles and, by our influence and examples, to make them vital forces in our chosen field of endeavor.

STOCK BREEDING

AMERICAN CLYDESDALE ASSOCIATION

Typical of the standards adopted by the various purebred live stock associations:

CONDITIONS OF REGISTRY

1. Unsound or unworthy individual animals should not be presented for registry. Such will not be admitted under any circumstances, where facts proving their inferiority are made known to the Executive Committee.

2. No application shall be considered until the fees are paid; nor shall any number be assigned by the Secretary until every requirement has been complied with.

3. When entries or transfers are made, the certificate given by the Secretary shall constitute the receipt for the fees; but such certificate shall not be binding upon the Association in case of error.

4. Fees are as noted:....

5. In case the animal offered for entry is owned by other than the owner of the dam at the time of birth, a transfer is required to the present owner from the previous owner; and if the animal has passed through one or more intermediate hands transfers must be given in their regular order. Parties interested in the animals in question, or their descendants, are required to file vendor's Certificates, showing sales in their regular order from the breeder through successive owners to the party in whose ownership said animals appear at the date of registration.

6. In case of a change in ownership of an animal, the buyer must obtain from the seller a certificate of transfer, for which a blank form will be furnished by the Secretary, which will be recorded when returned. In case of the neglect or refusal of the seller to give a certificate of transfer, the record of transfer may be made by the Secretary, upon approval of a majority of the Executive Committee, on evidence of sale and delivery. Parties purchasing recorded stallions or mares should obtain from the seller an abstract of ownership, issued by the Secretary, showing that the sale has been noted on the books of the American Clydesdale Association.

7. In all certificates of transfer, the full name and postoffice address of both the buyer and seller, and the date of sale must be given. If the animal is a female, it must be stated

whether or not she has been served. If served, the date of service must be given, with the name and Stud Book number of the stalion, certified to by the then recorded owner of the stallion, or his authorized representative.

8. In view of the fact that the value of a pedigree depends largely on the character and standing of the party or parties who bred and reared the animals represented therein, it is a matter of no small importance that the name of the breeder of every animal mentioned in each pedigree be given. This, if known, should never be omitted. Frequently the breeder's name is absolutely necessary for the proper identification of the animal.

9. The breeder of an animal is the recorded owner of the dam (or her use) at the time of service, and dictates the cross. The first owner of a colt is the recorded owner of the dam at the time the colt is dropped.

10. The use of duplicate names should be avoided.

11. Should an animal have been admitted to entry, or transferred through misrepresentation or fraud, the Executive Committee, on discovery of the same, shall declare the entry or transfer void, together with any entries that may have been made of descendants of such animal.

12. When an animal shall have been entered or transferred through misrepresentation or fraud, the Executive Committee may direct the Secretary to refuse for record any subsequent entry or transfer dependent upon the signature of any person implicated in such fraudulent entry or transfer.