Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
PROFESSOR REMINGTON LAuDs
PURE FOOD LAW
CALIFORNIA WINE AND OLIVE OIL
ARE PURE
Pharmacists Will Be Invited to Hold
Next Annual Convention in
the City of Los
Angeles

night Prof. Joseph p. Remington, dean
of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy,
and one of the foremost authorities on
pharmaceutical matters in the country,
paid a high compliment to California
manufacturers.
The tribute came In the course of a
discussion of the recently enacted federal
pure food and drug law. Prof. Reming-
ton had outlined briefly the provisions of
the law and had described the manner
of it's enforcement. Then he said:
Here III California you have two in
dustries to which 1 want to give credit.
They are the olive oil and the wine indus
try. The pure food law will not affect
them, except as it may save them from
unfair competition at the hands of un-
scrupulous business rivals elsewhere.
California olive oil and California wines
always have been pure. There's that old
warrior in the olive oil industry, Elwood
Cooper, who said: so far as 1 am con-
cerned California oil shall go before the
people absolutely pure What was the
result? California olive oil was kept
pure, even in the face of competition
from oils adulterated and consequently
cheapened by manufacturers in other
parts of the country. Today the federal
laws back up California's stand and the
California products have made a name
for themselves that is worth much COM
mercially."
Druggists Invited to Los Angeles
Dr. Remington's address was delivered
at banquet rendered him by number
of the retail druggists of Los Angeles.
In addition to his talk on the pure food
law he spoke of the work of the Amer
| lean Pharmaceutical association and as
a result the thirty-four druggists pres
| ent made formal application for MEM
| bership in the organization, and voted
to extend to the association an invita-
Ion to hold it's next convention in Los
| Angeles.
DR.. Remington was introduced by l..
| b. Brur swig, the POSTMASTER, as the
George Washington of the pharmaceu-
| teal world The introduction, he said.
reminded him of a retort made by Mark
| Twain to toastmaster who had com
| pared the great humorist to the father
of his country. Twain said,' remarked
| the speaker soberly, that he was
greater man than Washington, because
| Washington couldn't tell a lie and he
could. Now, 1 don't want to make ary
| claims for myself because I'm just back
from a fishing trip to Catalina and"
"What did you get?" called druggist,
from across the table.
| "I got Catalina and some sunburn,'
retorted the speaker. You ought to
know what Catalina means. | want you
to know, too, that I really am white
man. though you might not suspect it
| from my present color.
'sWell, I, came out to California to go
hshing. 1 got in here-no that's eastern
~ blew in here Monday morning and
expected to have quiet time of it. I
/ had a suspicion that If / published Jan
itinerary Of my trip in the pharmaceuti-
cal iournals--tf I announced my coming
! as a circus does--I might md an audience
awaiting me; but ! didn't suspect I'd
be found out, anyway.
81 hadn't been in my hotel fifteen min
utes, however before q knock came upon
my door and there wa Hil.. Schroeder.
one of my former pupils. That was the
end of my incognito.
California Is Favored Spot
''Every one out here has asked ne
what L think of California. I will tell
you I think California the most favored
spot 1 lave ever seen. You began by
finding treasures in the earth. Later you
found treasures on the surface of the
| earth, and you discovered your climate.
Your progressive spirit, your get there,
attracted men of means and since ls49,
less than sixty years, your progress has
! been wonderful.
at think the great need of California.
particularly in pharmaceutical matters,
| is to get out of her shell. fear you men
of California are too we'll satisfied with
the spot in which you have located. You
need to be no less Californians but more
| Americans. You are not today filling your
! place in the nation as well as you might,
because you are too well satisfied with
California. The time has come for you
| to reach out and make California state
| in the galaxy Of states that is more hon
| ored, respected and feared than she is
| today.
"Where is the California Pharmaceutical
societyl You had an organization but 1t
| victr T.nOk the list OF
| members in the national body and you will
| find only twenty-seven Californians on the
| roll out of total of 1000. That is because
YOU have SO much here that you've rested
on your laurels and forgotten the rest of
the United States altogether.
| az suggest that you send 100 delegates,
not twenty-seven, to the meeting of the
| American Pharmaceutical association in
New York next September and that you
secure the next meeting or, If not that.
the meeting after the next, for Los An
| geles.
about the pure food and drug act:
There has been much misunderstanding
all over the country about that act. III
you will take it and study it for weeks,
or months or years, you will find in 1t
not one provision that is not in the ir-
| terest of public health, public morals and
good Americanism.
To-day, after years of endeavor' and
| largely through the efforts or Pro1. ttar-
vey A. Wiley chief chemist of the depart
ment of agriculture, we are in position
where the merchant who wants to sell his
goods must label them with the truth.
Public opinion all over the United States
is back of the law and seventeen states
already have adopted laws based upon its
provisions, This has been done because
the national law can take cognizance only
of commodities which are made objects of
interstate commerce.
Though hte law went into effect in
January it is not yet in full operation.
1t has, however already accomplished
much good Take Mrs. Winslow's sooth-
ing syrup, for instance. How many men
of today are dope 1ends because trusted
nurse gave them that concoction which
contained morphine? Deception in that
regard is no longer permitted. Today the
label announces that the syrup contains
morphine. Similarly other proprietary
messes confess on their labels to contain
ing alcohol. Certain firms even have been
compelled to change their formulae to
avoid disgraceful label announcements"
DR.. Remington closed his address with