Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-20
RESENTSATTACKS
UPON MEDICINES
Remedial Virtues of Proprie-
tary Preparations Upheld by
], Frank J. Cheney.
ASSOCIATION MEETS
HERE IN CONVENTION
Representative Harrison. Author of
Anti-Narcotic Bill, Will Address
Delegates This Afternoon.

Defending proprietary medicines
against attacks Frank j. Cheney of
Toledo. Ohio. president of the Pro-
prietary Association Of America. open
ed the thirty-first annual convention
Of the association at the New willard
Hotel today. The convention will be
I'm session tomorrow and Thursday. and
a banquet will be held tomorrow
night District Commissioner Rudolph
welcomed the delegates to Washington
Mr. Cheney criticised what he termed
the medical politicians of the Ameri-
can Medical Association" for their at
tempts to break up the sale of pro-
prietary medicines. He declared that
.when YOU consider the therapeutic
value OF any drug, that value must be
based on what the drug will do to re-
Iieve the sick and not upon wholesale
or retail prices of the drug upon the
market.
Business Prosperous.
Mr. Cheney showed that the bust
ness of the proprietary medicine men
has been very prosperous. and has
steadily grown He submitted statis-
tics showing that the total production
of proprietary medicines in 1911 was
approximately $4,000. 900 as compared
with 500. 600. 900 in 1902. or an increase
of 60 per cent in less than decade
Zone method of attack, Mr.. Cheney
continued. has been to discredit our
claims for the remedial virtue OF our
preraratons In answer 10 this | would
like to ask who knows better than the
patient himself as to whether he is cured.
! am a believer in the good Judgment
of the great majority of the people You
cannot fool them very often when they
tn themselves 1DoN
know the good from the bad and are
fully capable of distinguishing frauds
when they see them. and they know
when they are relieved from any ailment
or cured of any sickness.
Harrison Will Speak.
Representative Francis Burton Harrison
of New York. author of the anti-narcotc
bill recently introduced in the House. is
scheduled to address the convention this
afternoon. He will explain the provi-
sons and purposes of his bill, which is
aimed to limit the traffic in opium. NOR
phine. cocaine and other habit-forming
drugs.
At the banquest tomorrow evening the
speakers will be John c. Wallace of New
Castle. Pa. president of the Allied Drug
Trade Conference: Albert Plaut of New
York. president of the National Whole
sale Druggists Association; Henry W
Merritt president of the National Asso-
citation of Retail Druggists. Brent Good
one of the organizers of the proprietary
association; Jesse r. Hopkins of New
York and David Watson of Montreal.
Canada, president of the Proprietary Ar
iicles Trade Association.
Delegates to the convention include
members of the association from all parts
of the United States. and there are also
present representatives of the wholesale
and retail drug trade from the United
States, Canada and Cuba.
Prices Not to Be Considered.
Orient C. Pinckney. secretary-treasurer
of the association, gave out formal
statement just prior to the opening of the
convention. in which he denied report
that the convention would even consider
the prices of proprietary articles. The
association has never had anything to do
with prices. he declared.
The officers of the association are: Presi-
dent. Frank j. Cheney Toledo; first vice
president. a. III. Beardsley. Elkhart, Ind.
second vice president. W. H. Cove, Lynn
Mass: OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. o. c. Pinck-
ney. New York. executive committee J.
j.. Hindes. Baltimore: r. R. Land, Bing-
hamton: J. A. Petten. Chattanooga: j.
Il. McFatrick. Chicago; w. B. Weiss.
Wheeling; v. Mott Pierce, Buffalo: Allen
+. Moore. Monticello. Ill.