Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-07-16
HOWARD S. BAKER
TO IOWA DRUGGISTS
Sioux City Man Addresses the
Pharmaceutical Asso.
citation.
SOME RECOMMENDATIONS
Urges That Association Go After De.
partment Stores and That Gradu-
ates Of Pharmacy Schools Be
Examined by State Board.

ates Of Pharmacy Schools Be
Examined by State Board.
Council Bluffs, Ia, July 16.-Presi-
dent Howard S. Baker OF Sioux City
called the twenty-fourth annual con-
vention of the Iowa Pharmaceutical as
ISOLATION to order last night in the
ball room OF the Grand hotel. About
200 members of the association were
present and many We're accompanied
by their wives and other members of
their families.
The session was opened with prayer
by Rev. James Thomson. pastor of the
Congregational church, following which
Mayor Dell G. Morgan, ON behalf of
the city and the Council Bluffs Re
tail Druggists association. of whom he
is president made a short welcoming
address, which was responded to by
First Vice President +. j. Gressler of
Chaplin, in the absence of W. II. Tor
bet of Dubuque. During the evening
music was furnished by Whaley's or
chestra and the Mendelssohn male
quartet rendered several selections.
The annual address of President Ba-
ker was we'll received and his beliefs
were accorded commentator by the
large majority of those present Presi-
dent Baker urged the association to go
after the department stores and rec
commended an effort be made to Sc
cure the repeal of that section of the
state pharmacy law which permits the
granting of certificates to graduates of
pharmacy holding diplomas from the
State university, or from other schools
without examination by the state COM
mission. In part Mr. Baker said:
President Bakers Address.
believe that the condition of the Iowa
pharmacist is better today than In the
past yet do not believe that he has made
the commercial Invasion he should on the
department and general stores OF the state
which constantly eating In on side
lines that originally and rightfully be-
long to Yet l doubt not, We're all the
work and broadening commercial ideas
that have been pushed into active service
but admit of material advancement
/ want the Iowa pharmacist to observe
at all times commercial dignity and honor,
but 1 cannot stand meekly aside without
admonishing him to go after the depart
ment stores with barbed hooks.
The pharmacists of Iowa, as compared
with the department manager, are equally
endowed with commercial ability. and we
have no apologies to make on that score.
1t is not necessary to resort to every
known strategy to obtain greater achieve
methods that are constantly open to
criticism.
He must broaden his commercial ideas.
Let him take, for Instance. for his ex-
ample, the American nation. Our nation
has already gained the distinction of be-
ing the most pronouncedly initiative met
with anywhere on the face of the globe.
You will find American product and in
vention In the hands of the world.
Our American binder harvests the crops
on the steppes of Russia, the highlands of
Scotland and the Hungar ria estates,
the pumping equipment for irrigation at
Bombay
Our electric car lines pass the Pyramids
capital of Korea and the city of Glasgow.
American typewriters arc In use in
Uganda.
American cash registers are in use in
marts of Austria; while. the American
linotype machine is used by Sheffield
daily newspaper. and the American built
quadruple presses used by a Manchester
daily newspaper have filled the European
inventor with emcrald-hued envy until it
blinds his gaze when he looks on the stars
and stripes
With these examples before us, shall we
stop and ask the question: can we hold
our own in the commercial world?
Urges Repeal of Lave.
i most earnestly urge the legislative
committee for the ensuing year to use all
nOnOrdDle effort 10 tillCUu StCIlOI EOOS VI
our pharmacy laws, by striking from the
section the words "Graduates of pharmacy
holding Il diploma from the state uni
verstty, or from amy school or college Of
and laboratory work equivalent to that
prescribed by the said state university In
its catalogue for the year 1s97-9S, may be
registered without examination
The evils from the above enactment are
in evidence at every hand. Under this sec
tion the board of pharmacy is compelled to
Issue certificates to any and all appli-
cants that show II diploma from the State
University of Iowa, or any. college
throughout the country. alleging Its stand
ard as pharmacy school In equality
er words, 1t practically converts the state
board of pharmacy into judges of the
standard of schools all over the continent.
and not judges of the applicants ability
to practice pharmacy for the safety of
the public The board of pharmacy has
no means of ascertaining the standard of
many schools In remote districts, without
personal Inspection of equipment and the
practical work. and this would entail ire
mendous expense to the state.
The result has ben the enforced passing
of many applicants who have not had u
days experience I'm the drug business, and
i was told by u prominent druggist that a
clerk under his employ who received his
certificate In this manner. could not tell
the difference between bottle of Warmers
Kidney and Liver Cure and a bottle of
Pnkham's pills, for he had never seen
them.
The older members of this association
remember some of the methods employed
by the lobbyists to pass this law, and we
arc at a loss to know why the energetic
friends of the university should deem 1t
advantageous to the school. IT seems to
state university did not need n law of the
kind for the sole purpose of giving it an
imaginary boost
The chairs of other pharmaceutical
scho N Sfot tn n mot to
on the contrary, all expressed themselves
freely that they were not only willing but
anxious that their graduates should stand
the examination of the state board, thus
demonstrating the quality of their school
work.
Asks for United Support.
sincerely hope that we will have the
lnited support of oil pharmacists of the
state who have the interest of the profess
sion AT heart, to secure its prompt repeal
at the next session.
would further recommend the repeal of
that portion of section 259O namely:
renewal certificate shall be paid on or
before the 22d day of March by all phar-
macists who continue in business, and the
conduct Of such business without such re,
newal shall be misdemeanor. And
that portion of section 259l, namely:
Which shall hold good for one year, and
no longer. without renewal. Renewals
annual fee fixed in the preceding section" "
The primary object in the passage of
this law was for the maintenance of the
commission, which, at that time, in our
judgment, was eminently proper to rem
der the board self-sustaining through the
assistance of the druggists, and not at the
expense of the taxpayers of the state.
nation from the code, inasmuch as the Of
fce of the commission is not only self
sustaining but an income to the state,