The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-20
Change IN drug
ACT ADVOCATED
Druggists Wish State Pharmacy
Board to Have Charge of
Its Provisions
Delegate Declares Pill Maker
Can Not Be 'Soda Squirt"
at Same Time

Besides electing officers the Califor-
MIA pharmaceutical association closed
its business sessions yesterday by pass
ing a number of resolutions, principal
among which was one favoring the
placing of the state board of pharmacy,
instead of the board Of health in
charge of the enforcement of the pure
drug act.
AT the morning session r. A. Leet of
Oakland spoke on Sunday Closing"
which he favored. He said that since
his store commenced closing no COM
plant had been received
The Soda Fountain" was presented
by w. b. Thompson of Los Angeles,
who favored maintaining it in drug
stores.
Bert c. Apsley of the same city said
1t did not pay to keep a man specially
to attend to the fountain and that it
was not satisfactory to have a pre-
scriptidh clerk attend to it, for" said
he, "a man can not be a pill maker
and a soda squirt at the same time"
i. c. d. Price delivered an address
on craftsmanship, in which he gave ad-
vice on how to become a first class
salesman.
LAW HAS DEFECTS
Prof. NJ. E. Jaffa, in charge of the
Berkeley, spoke of the state board of
health's attitude toward the pharma-
ceutical association. He said that the
board was willing to cooperate with
the association. Speaking of the pure
food and drug law he said there are
many defects in it and added that if
commissioners who frame laws of this
nature were selected because they were
experts. rather than political appoint
ees the laws would be better.
In a paper on "Medico Pharmaceuti-
cal Ethics DR.. A. S. Musante, president
of the alumni association of the Cali
fornia College of Pharmacy. condemned
the practice of physicians recommend
ing certain druggists and of druggists
recommending physicians when the
recommendations were merely for
financial gain.
In a paper on "Oldtime Doctors"
James G. Steele. historian of the Cali
foFnia pharmaceutical society, told of
prominent physicians of earlier days,
among them being:
H. NJ. Gray Martin J. Bourke
B. B. Colt a. j. Bowie
j. Sheldon Henry Gibbons
A. b. Short c. Berthody
H. H. Toand H. Stahl
+. Beverley Cole Herman Baehr
J. B. Trask c. ". None
r. Mcmillan 4. r Sawyer
stephen r. Harris James Murphy
Resolutions of respect to the mem
DRY of the late w. NJ. Searby, the first
president of the association; j. r. Dun
lap of Amador, e. g.. Burnell of this
city and w. G. Ayers of Coalinga were
adopted.
TO NAME COMMITTEE
It was decided to appoint a commit
tee of seven to confer with the state
board of pharmacy on such matters as
may be of interest to the association.
A resolution to request the legisla-
ture for an appropriation to continue
the experimental station in Golden Ga te
park for the cultivation of medicinal
plants was adopted
Sacramento was selected as the place
of meeting of the association in 1911.
The following officers were elected:
W r. Dickinson Of Los Angeles. president.
@. H. z. LichthRrdt, Sacramento, first vice
president.
l. Tobriner, Oakland second vice president
Albert Schneider, San Francisco secretary.
c. II. Ward of Pasadena, E. Val Schmidt of
San Francisco. J.. H. Hughes of Bakersfield. r..
g. Binz of Los Angeles, J. lesson of Ontario.
]. A. Sanford of Stockton and u. c. Hazerigg
Of San Diego, trustees.
h. S. Kirk Of Sacramento. local secretary,
During the noon recess there was a
visit to the glass works and in the
evening a ball at the Fairmont.
Today the delegates will be taken
on an excursion around the bay and
on Saturday they will visit Alameda
county as the guests of the Alameda
County pharmaceutical society.