Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-21
RAPS PLANT
HEALTH BUREAU
O. C. Pinckney Says DR.. Wiley
and DR.. Simmons Would Mis-
rule U. S. Department.
IGNORANCE AND INJUSTICE
SURE TO OBTAIN, HE SAYS
Reports Submitted at Convention of
Proprietary Association-Mislead-
ing Advertisers Barred.

A sharp attack on the plan for a fed
eral department Of health outlined to
President Wilson by DIR. George III. Sim
mons of the American Medical Associa-
tou and DR.. Harvey W. Wiley was made
TO-DAY before the convention of the Pro-
prietary Association of America at the
New Willard Hotel by Orient &. Pinck-
nty OF New York. secretary-treasurer of
the organization.
sir. Piuckney explained that neither he
nor the association are opposed to the
formation of such a department, but add
ed that ii would be wrong to establish
health department with such men back
of il. He said they would scheme TO
turn over the bureau of chemistry to the
new department and resume conduct of
it which for ignorance, injustice and un-
American methods would make the Wiley
regime seem tame.
10 Further Limit Membership.
While Wiley and Simmons and their
associates were making a noise like an
authorized delegation TO the White
House. he continued, there were gath
cred in convention in Washington more
than a thousand earnest, scholarly and
learned physicians. These physicians
Were discussing and studying various
phases of human ills and their treatment,
but in all their sixty-two-page program
they made not a single mention of the
department of health. They were really
attending to the business of the public
health and at the same time attending
10 their own.
Mr.. Pinckney told of a plan to further
Limit membership in the proprietary asso-
citation in order to keep out all who are
not in thorough accord with the pure food
and drugs act. and all "quacks and pur-
veyors of fraud" He added that 1.-The
association will lend it's influence and aid
To federal and state authorities to dis
cover and punish lawbreakers.'
Misleading Advertisers Barred.
The association does not want any
members whose advertising is offensive
and misleading. he said.
Carl j., Balhett OF Buffalo. chairman Of
tie membership coWmittee. made his re-
Icrt this morning. showing that more APP
l.licatons in rhe association had been
rejected than had been accepted. F. X.
fernald of Elkhart. Ind, chairman of the
committee on relations with the retail
mitee On classification OF freight rates,
ard DR. Manuel johnson of Havana
chairman of the committee on Cuban re-
.ations. also made their reports
Addresses ScneGuled 1nlS afternoon
Includes one by Elliot ri. Goodwin. gen.
Grad secretary of the Chamber of Com
mcrce of the United States. and another
by Ernest Sanger of London on "Condi-
TONS in England" The annual banquet
Of the association will be held at the New
Willard tonight.
Drug Using Blamed on Physicians.
Frank r. Thompson OF Toledo. general
attorney for the association. declared at
the afternoon session of the convention
Yesterday that "irrefutabie statistics show
that fully ~ per cent of the habtual US
ers of opium, cocaine. morphine and SINH
lar drugs owe their first taste of the
drugs to the hypodermic needle Of the
ply stefan.
For this reason. he said. all legislation
calculated TO regulate the sale or use of
such drugs is aimed at only the per
cent which remains. He added that the
association has always been ready TO as
sist stopping the use or these drugs in
any way possible.
DIR. +. j.. Kebler of the Department OF
Agriculture made a short address on the
use of drugs. and said that everything
possible should be done to stop the prac-
tlce. He told of the manufacturer of one
remedy who bought 800 ounces of cocaine
per month. Such remedies should be kept
off the market. he declared. The only
way 10 bring this about. he said il for
the people interested to frame a national
law and get the states to copy it.