The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-06
Reference to His Sim
plifed Spelling Silently
Received.
CONVENTION HAS
BIG DAYS WORK
Importance of Federal Poison
Label Urged by Members as
Protection to Public-High
Finance Roundly Scored.
Kansas Liquor
Laws.

Laws.
Many questions affecting the public
were discussed by the American Phar-
Yesterday. Even "the impending
Roosevelt" was brought in. but the
lauda.ory remarks concerning him
made by Professor Taylor. of Syracuse
University, did not stir UP single
hand clap. "Stmplined spelling" may
be adopted by the association. but pro-
found silence greeted the statement
OF the New Yorker as TO its many
sided" patron that, though called i'm
pulsive. he is the highest type OF
American characteristics. Theodore
Roosevelt put himself to great deal
OF trouble about simplifed spelling.
and time will show that he was right"
Perhaps the members present agreed
, with the sentiment OF Wilhelm Bode-
mann. OF Chicago. expressed earlier
in the morning. Politics is the curse
OF this country. and woe be to phar-
macy IL it ever gets into the clutches
Of such a dragon as politics"
Hard Days Work.
Buckling down to business. the as
ISOLATION more than cleared It's docket
of work outlined for yesterday. Educa- :
tionai. Legislative and scientific prob
lens were discussed with great vigor
and interest by the section on educa- :
ton.
Technical consideration of essay
processes and OF physiological testing
took up the time of the section on
scientific papers. Matters suggested
by its title were considered by the
section on education and legislation.
Shortly after noon there vas a brief
general session. mainly occupied With
the reception of reports.
OF national aspect were the papers
read and debated at the session OF the
section on education and legislation.
some of these were: The Need of
a Federal Poison Label The Federal
Food and Drugs Act" Kansas Liquor
Laws" and False Standards in Phar-
! maceutical Edunation.''
Chairman Charles III. laval. OF the
| section. delivered his address, which
| bore on the essentials which are re-
auired for proper pharmaceutical edu-
cation. at is more important some
times for students to know how to
! look UP rather than for them to learn
word for word" he declared Training
| in business ethics, he thought, should
| be insisted upon. The days of the
| ulplol1d Hills dEe ONct.
A compilation of the laws Of interest
| to pharmacists passed or defeated since
the last convention by the various
state Legislatures of the Union was
| the leading feature of the report of
Secretary Charles W. Jonson In many
States steps had been taken in the
right direction; in others deplorable
inaction existed. Many amusing laws
| were mentioned. one OF them being a
Maine law. requiring that soda
fountain clerk must inform his Gus
toner when the flavor of the soft
! drink dispensed is "imitation" or not.
Some rather ludicrous subjects taught
| in pharmaceutical colleges were COM
mented upon.
Federal Poison Label.
Lyman f. Kebler, chief of the drug
laboratory of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. spoke informingly
on the necessity for a Federal poison
label. The laws on the transmission
of poison by mail are wofully lax. Some
States have adopted poison labels.
while many have done nothing in this
direction. The result is that people
all over the nation are receiving pack.
ages by mail or express of deadly pois-
on, unmarked, which may be put in
easy reach of the child or the ignorant
adult
Cocaine. unlabeled is being widely
/ disseminated" he said. "and habit rem.
edies advertised far and near in the
papers contain injurious ingredients.
but are allowed TO go freely through
the mails without any label indicative
of the poisonous or deleterious effects
of the contents" he declared.
Many loopholes in the administration
of the Federal food and drugs act were
a
| Chicago. THE laws on food and drug
reform in the States are now for the
most part Inadequate" he said, "and
the mere re-enactment in them of the
| Federal law is not enough. there being
| imperative necessity for supplementary
laws to cover up such defects as exist
in the national law. Each State is
derelict in its duty to its citizens until
It does do this. Each State must up
| hold the standards of the pharmaco-
poeia. The principle in buying drugs Is
not let the buyer beware. as many
| legislators think, but, in the light OF
the welfare of the people, it is, let
the seller beware"
Question of Laws.
$50 Called Attempts to Improve
Pharmacy Laws" was the title of the
paper read by Wilhelm Bodemann, OF
Chicago, who took as his text the axiom
that 1t is better to let good law alone
than to make evil changes in It, Incl
dentally he cited with approval the
| criticism made by President James, OF
the University of Illinois, against one
of the justices of the United States
Supreme Court, who, as member OF
the faculty of an Institution in WASH
ington, had lobbied for 1t. He desired
THAT examining boards should be kept
out of politics and that pharmacists
might come under the same exemption
and not have to lobby.
The paper on Kansas Liquor Laws
as They Affect Medicine and Phar-
macy" by It. Il sayre. was read by
title. 1t showed that it took Kansas
twenty eight years to find out that a
prohibition law, with an exception al
flowing the restricted sale OF liquor by
druggists, was anTutter failure. The
Ipresent law, without any exception
was enacted in 1909, Speaking OF the
old laws, the paper stated; Colds and
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