The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-06-21
President Eastman of Vermont
Pharmaceutical Assn.
TO HIS FELLOW DRUGGISTS
Annual Meeting Of State Association II
Burlington To-day Was Attended
by $50 Delegates From
All Over the State.

Burlington, June 21s--The opening ses.
sion OF the eighteenth annual eonyen-
tion Of the Vermont Pharmaceutical as
sociation was held to-day at the hotel
Vermont, with an attendance Of one hun.
dred and fifty. The annual address
Of the president, w. b. Eastman of St
Johnsbury, was given this morning. The
report Of the secretary, w. f. Terill
of Montpelier. showed total member
ship of 1926, which is the largest number
in proportion to druggists OF any state
in the union.
President Eastman pleaded for clean
er stores and shorter hours for drug
gists and he deprecated the practice OF
substitution in the sale of standard ar
ticles as dishonest and advocated CO.
operation among members OF the associa-
tion. He scored sharply the druggists
who sell liquor illegally and he thought
all druggists would be better off II they
let the rum business alone He blamed
public sentiment for the present CON
dition In this regard.
During the afternoon yesterday the
druggists arrived in considerable num-
Der on every train. Dinner was served
lat the Vermont from six o'clock until
1890. and Immediately after this there
was reception ID the hotel parlors BY
President W b Eastman of st. Johns
bury and other officers Of the organiza-
tion.
A lecture by DIR. H. II. Rusby, dean
Of the Columbia university College Of
Pharmacy in New York City, was schee-
nled for nine o'clock, and was to have
been given on the roof garden OF the
hotel But at the last moment, IL was
found that the lighting connections there
would not permit the use Of the sterop-
ticon.
After a delay of about one hour. the
Bijou theatre was obtained for the lec-
ttre. and at the close OF the regular
evening performance there, az 10 o'clock,
DR. Rushv spoke in very interesting
and instructive manner upon his travels
through South America.
He said that the trip which he took
in South America was made particularly
for the study of the koIa plant. He
made his travels especially clear BY the
use of map showing the regions visit
ed and the route taken through them.
Speaking of climatic and weather con-
ditions there. he said that in the dry
season it rains every day, but in tn-
wet season ii rains all the time"
Pictures and full descriptions made
very clear the means Of transportation
employed in various parts Of the con-
tinent, and the difficulties of travel
there The speaker also told of his ex-
periences among the natives, and he con
trasted the different races and types
the country.
DR. Rushy brought out in most strik-
ing way the peculiar situation Of the
city OF Ia Paz, which il located in a
deep depression in the mountains. Here
is found the source Of the Amazon. so
narrow that man can easily step
across the little stream, although this
great river, at its mouth, is $50 miles
In width. and contains an island as
large as the kingdom of Portugal.
One view showed n flower so immense
that it constituted an entire armful Of
itself, and other pictures showed the
trees from which quinine and rubber
are produced. Some OF the big trees
growing in South America date back to
1 period before the time of Christ. and
in the Canary islands there are trees
believed to be 6,000 Years old.
The speaker told OF man who drank
the milk of the rubber tree BY mistake.
md died from the effects of the solid
mass that soon formed in his interior.
VI special interest to druggists was DR..
Rusby's discussion Of coco. coca and
COCOA plant. He said that the word
cocoa" is corruption of "cacao," aud
hat this plant is entirely distinct from
.he coco and cocoa plants From the
asst named is produced cocaine