Architects share with members of other professions the disability of commanding no exact legal sanction to prevent unwarranted use of their style by individuals who, however worthy, do not really possess the qualifications usually expected of the duly accredited expert. The difficulty is, of course. that of distinguishing between the dictionary use of a term and the more limited construction placed upon it as organized society progresses in specialization. Journalists still lack this sort of protection. In Great Britain they are seeking to obtain parliamentary support in registering members of their profession, although, as architects, chartered accountants 2nd engineers have learnt the mere existence of a professional society does not provide complete cover. Much is being done by direct instruction through the press. as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects has endeavoured in the protest which prompts this comment. Actresses and barmaids have frequently expressed their sense of grievance in finding police court registers too eager to enrol a certain class delinquent in their respective and respectable callings. So, too, the journalist feels affronted when some scribbler who has failed at every possible means of earning a living is permitted io claim journalistic status on the strength perhaps of having once secured a rejection slip from Fleet Street, However, journalists have no hard feelings for they recognize the force of the dictum recorded by one of the greatest of iheir fraternity, Rudyard Kipling when he declared that to be a journalist was "worse than serving in a shop or searing off the crows."
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