Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-08-11

President Burt Finney of Bismarck
delivered an interesting annual ad-
dress to the State Pharmaceutical as
ISOLATION at Fargo this week, where
he said:
Gentlemen of the North Dakota
Pharmaceutical Association d
Friends: AS president Of your asso-
citation it is incumbent upon me to
prepare an address, setting forth mat
tiers of importance for the considera-
ton and guidance of its members,
standing and special committees. For
this reason, shall, as briefly as pos
sible. touch upon such matters, both
state and national, as deem, and
ask your Indulgence and consldera-
ton.
At our last meeting l appointed
several committees to their respec-
tive duties and delegates to the ma
tional bodies of pharmacy-the work
of the latter many of you, no doubt,
have followed in the pharmaceutical
Journals, and later on we will be
favored with their special reports, to-
gether with those Of the committees.
The past year not being legis-
lative year, not much of Importance
has been done in this particular.
While l shall not have the appointing
of our next legislative committee, and
that in all probability the new COM
mittee will not be announced until
late in the meeting, | would urge that
each and every member of the .asso-
citation be keen to all matters relat-
ing to our laws, that all measures of
proposed legislation may be thorough
ly discussed so that the new commit
tee may have clear understanding
as to it's duties.
You all realize the loss sustained by
Commissioner Ladd during the recent
fire at the agricultural college, when
in flash much of his life work
went a glimmeri1g While Professor
Ladd's loss was the greatest-there
is no doubt but that in the destruc-
ton of the chemical laboratory and
department of pharmacy, the drug
gists of the state have experienced a
loss. To thoroughly re-equip these
laboratories will require much ex-
pense. Considering the fact that the
department OF pharmacy has never re-
ceived any state aid, financially,
recommend that the legislative COM
mittee be instructed to procure such
appropriation, at the next meeting of
the legislature, as may be necessary
for the maintenance of the depart
ment of pharmacy at the agricultural
college for the succeeding biennial
period.
believe you all appreciate the i'm
portance to the state and to our asso-
citation of this department and the
good work carried on by it's head.
A peddlers license law has been
agitated each year at our meetings,
but as yet no law regulating the vend-
ing of medicines by peddlers is in
force-the bill introduced at the last
session of the legislature being de-
feated on account of class legislation.
Also the Robertson bill, which we had
the good fortune to hear discussed
by it's author at our last meeting, and
which became a law in Minnesota,
has been declared unconstitutional for
a like reason. That peddler's Ii
cense law is needed is unquestioned
and the committee with this in charge
should see to the framing of bill that
will not conflict with class tax. 1t is
an important matter, not affecting
alone the druggists of this state, but
of other states as well as other lines
of business. If our committees would
confer with like committees from the
retail hardware dealers, the Retail
Grocers' association, etc., of this state,
and other states, believe bill get
ting around class legislation could be
framed to withstand the courts.
AS I stated, we shall hear the re-
ports of the delegates to the national
and as these will be comprehensive
and full of information which l am
not familiar with as they will be.
shall leave the handling of national
affairs to them. But in this connec-
ton there seems to be considerable
agitation between the American Medi-
cal association and some of the ma
tional bodies of pharmacy as to the
ethics practised by each other. This
I do not think has developed into a
serious condition as yet, and trust it
may not; that the trouble has arisen
chiefly through individuals or over
jealous firms or institutions. For
tunately We have not been affected.
But considering the fact that the medi-
cal profession and the druggists are
indispensable one to the other, some
what in favor of the druggist; and
that the same friendly relations which
I believe now exist between the doc
tor and the druggist in our state may
continue, suggest that resolutions
be passed discountenancing spurious
advertising, counter prescribing and
the over-zealous exploitation of ques- |
tionable preparations. While I be-
neve the pharmacists of our state are
free from these evils
still practised in a small measure may
In time have a tendency to leaven the |
whole loaf. Also in this connection, |
II a mutual arrangement between the
North Dakota Medical association and |
The North Dakota Pharmaceutical as
ISOLATION for the exchange of dele
yates to each others conventions |
could be effected, it would have ten
0encv to keen harmony between the |