Disinfecting corrupt stuff

Sunrise from the top of Cadillac Mountain, in Acadia National Park, Maine. For part of the year it’s the site of America’s earliest sunrise.

“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.’’

“And publicity has already played an important part in the struggle against the Money Trust.’’

— Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941), in a Harper’s Magazine article in 1913. A government and civic reformer through much of his life, Brandeis was a U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1916-1939. Before then he was a co-founder, in 1879, with Samuel Warren, and long-time partner of the Boston law that today is called Nutter, McClennen & Fish.