The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
Growth of Dope" Addiction in the United
States Is Graphically Described
by EXP

esty AMI pride from father tosson for five
generations Many managers, clerks, and
accountants sat at crowded desks in two
great rooms level with and facing mar
row street in the wholesale district. Dr.
Schieffelins office is scarcely larger than
closet When / went in man was
talking to him of poor boy VINO wanted
an education The agents of several so
cieties came later with verbal reports and
written documents.
II is said that Dr. Schieffelin is the
most active churchman in the country,
description ne smiles over and denies en-
phatically. Even So he is president OF
the Federation of Churches. the LaltS
League, and the American Church Mis-
sionary Society, and chairman OF the
New York committee Of the Laymen
Missionary Movement. Besides. he IS
president OF the National Wholesale
Druggists Association, and chairman of
the Citizens Union. a strong political Oh
eanization that sends a representative to
Albany to watch legislation. and prints
the biogra phies. some GOOD and some bad,
of those who run for local office.
A Great but Unknown Man.
Indeed. DR.. SchieffeIin is one of the
most potential men in the social and
political life of America Yet his name is
Of fact. | had considerable difficulty in
persuading him to answer my inquiries.
Tall and tanned dressed in gray, he
looked TO be thirty-five. whereas he is ten
Years older. You belong to the great
family of John JAY" I said, GoinG back
to the first Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, the famous Amerl-
can Minister TO Spain and Great Britain.
| the treaty-makei. and one of the early
governors Of New York.
If vou will omit the word great" he
replied. with a simplicity that was per
| fectly natural, L will say yes TO your
question"
! A bachelor of philosophy. by the diDlo-
ma Of the Columbia School OF Mines;
doctor of philosophy. by the diploma OF
the University Of Munich. and member
| OF American. German. and British chemi-
cal societies. Mr Srhieffclin sought to be
scientifically accurate. John Jay was
! great" Why go any further? Family
| pride. l saw. was the wrong road to this
plain mans favor. So too, were all mat
ters personal. Il began in this house, -"
he quietly remarked. huwing his head
toward the rooms hlled with clerks and
customers. as an analytical chemist My
! salary was = day. thus ended the
history Of his achievements IN Business.
| You stated in an address to the Ma
tional civic Federation 1 said. that
Americans use more habit-forming drugs
| than any white race in the wOrld?'
That is easily "xplainable." DR..
/ Schieffelin answered. The drug busi-
ness is a very large industry. l sup
pose that half OF it. in money received.
comes from patent medicines. Amerl-
cans believe in and practice self-medi-
! cation. Some patent medicines. when
! in liquid form. contain alcohol. Others
contain narcotics. Previous to the en-
( actment of the pure food and drugs
! act OF June 80. 1906. the manufacturers
! OF patent medicines were not required
to print on their labels the ingredients
| of their preparations.
| Druggists DisREreeabIe Position.
The fact that certain medicines con-
! tanned alcohol or narcotics placed the
] retail druggist in a disagreeable posi-