THE outstanding facts about the Fair Trade Acts are that they were passed in a short period of time in 44 states, that they have been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court and by state courts following it, that they have been shielded from conflict with the federal anti-trust laws by the Miller-Tydings amendment, and that they permit the person under whose trade-mark goods are sold to establish, by contract with a distributor, the resale price for goods sold under that trade-mark by any distributor who has notice of the contract. These facts create, of course, important and difficult problems of practical adjustment of detail. Apparently they also invite attempts which seek to generalize the effect of the Acts on a variety of situat...