Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-10

| time when your work will bring its
natural fruitage and your prescription
department is made to pay handsome
returns. There are a variety of rea-
sons why physicians dispense and pre-
scribe nostrums, but none of them can
Withstand influences that patient, con-
scientious propaganda work can exert,
because the pharmacist is the ply
sician's natural and indispensable
helper
Price Protection.
s'The great campaign for price pro-
lection has accomplished much. The
cutter and demoralizer has lost cast.
The old tripartite plan stemmed the
tide of retrogession and ruin ten years
ago and prepared the way for more eff
fective measures. So successful has
the N. A. R. D. been in promulgating
the price-protective idea that in
of their own looking to this end, with
out even consulting the N. A. R. D..
The D. G. S. N. and other contract
plans have become demonstrated sue
| cesses. Back of all of the forces that
make for profit insurance stands the
great N. A. R. O., faithful, sentinel
and guardian. It's very existence, like
the mighty American army and navy
which we seldom use, is worth all Its
maintenance costs, and more. Let
it go down and the retail drug trade
of this country would be the easy prey
of the oppressor in every quarter,
without adequate weapons of defense,
helpless to preserve the advantages
| it has gained for the retailer in ten
years campaign of bloodless warfare.
Legislation.
81 am talking to you now as a news
paper man and publicist; one who has
studied your conditions from the out
side as we'll as the inside. What
have your pharmacy laws done for you
besides collecting fees from you for
examinations and certificate renewals
bringing about your prosecution for Of
lenses generally more technical than
vital In any professional and scien-
tific sense, etc. This criticism does
not apply to Iowa alone, but to the
| country in general. The physician has
exclusive privileges under the law, and
very properly, too; even the phar-
macist is prohibited from diagnosing
and prescribing, as he should be; but
how about the pharmacists exclusive
rights and privilege as trained officer
| of the state. The non-pharmacist
physician, unqualified as he always is,
| Is expressly permitted to enter your
chosen field, and compound and dis
pense medicines Besides this, the
general store dealer and itinerant ven
der Is permitted by law to sell all of
the medicinal proprietaries. Now,
pray, what has the pharmacist left?
"My contention is that pharmacists
have been too timid in asking the leg
| iluature for what it wants. They
should stand between the people and
their supply of medicine of every kind.
No reasonable doctor is going to op-
pose being placed on the same legal
status with the pharmacists where
each will be compelled to keep to his
own work, and to cooperate with one
another for the public good
CoIegian Talks.
Sadie M. Cooper of Red Oak, mem
Der of the Pharmacy college at the
state university, made the report of
the committee on pharmacy dealing
with authorizations, labels and guaran-
tees, the complexion soaps, brain and
skin foods, etc. stating that the word
food is likely to soon be dropped from
| the names Of these articles because
| they do not contain what is under.
stood as food in the general sense. The
marking of alcohol (spirits of colognel
and commercial alcohol was explained
by the speaker, who also stated that
druggists need anti-narcotic legisla
ton. The action of some drug manu-
facturers with wholesalers in trying tC
stop the cocaine use by heavy duty on
| the imported drug was also referred to-
The report was very general.
The report of the delegation to the
meeting of the A. Phi. A., was made by
Prof. Teeter of the State university
school of pharmacy.
Standing votes of thanks were ten
dered those making addresses and al
reports were received and placed on
the file of the association. The SEES
sion concluded with a report by w
H. Torbert of Dubuque on the presi
dents address in which the speaker
commended the many good things in
the address.
Ladies Highly Entertained.
No visiting lady who ever attend
ed convention in Ottumwa was more
delightfully."- entertained thar those
who gathered at the Elks' club ycster
4 day afternoon. Wives of Ottumwa
druggists and numerous friends were
the hospitable hostesses and none
ever entered into a social affair in 8
more agreeable manner than did these
hostesses. Five hundred was the game
played and Mrs. John Haslach of Mel
rose proved the best visiting player
She was awarded the guest prize, {
handsome vase. Mrs. John B. Dennis
received the other prize, an Ottumws
, souvenir spoon. Refreshments were
served
A Burning Shame.
is not to have Bucklen's Arnica Salvc
to cure burns. sores, pites. cuts