The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-03-15
GOT THEM GUESSING

Our Clever DSItcf4SW SOAA~S Fo---S
writes the following regarding the
new dope law:
One of the prettiest contributions
of art to literature ever presented
to the American people is that little
pamphlet entitled internal Revenue
Regulations, No. So. Laws and Regu-
lations relating to the Production, I'M
portation, Manufacture, Compromising,
Sale, Dispensing or Giving Away of
Opium of Cocoa Leaves, their Salts
or Derivations or Preparation" +
Quite lengthy name for such lit
tie book, but say, it is all there with
the goods in plain and unmistakable
meaning, and right now that little
book with big long title is causing
the storeKeepers big and little, Of |
this whole country to sit up and |
scratch their heads as never before. |
1t has got them all a guessing, and !
| they don't know where they are. That
| thing is loaded chock to the muzzle
and they don't know which end viii
turn loose first.
Numbers of store keepers have ask
ed us about it, and numbers never
heard of it before, but the chances
are that they will before long.
When Mr.. Store Keeper sends in his
usual monthly order for drugs, he will
be surprised to receive return notice
that certain drugs must be ordered
on certain blanks furnished by the In
ternal Revenue officers, otherwise his
order cannot be filled, and his atten-
ton will be called to section 9 of the
act. which says: "That any person
who violates or fails to comply with
any of the requirements of this act
shall. on conviction, be fined not more
than two thousand dollars, or be i'm
prisioned not more than five years, or
both at the discretion of the court.
The question will then arise, what can
1 sell? And what cannot l sell, to
comply with the regulations of this
law? This is the question that is agi-
tating the country store keepers of
this country today.
This law is no joke, Uncle Sam has
spoken, so to speak, and there you
are. 1t viii not pay to fool with
Uncle Sam, for he has habit of lay
ing his hand on heavy, and when your
fayorite dope customer comes in Mr.
Storekeeper and asks for his favorite
prescription, or bottle of laudnum
or a few tablets, or expresses wish
/ r he Cf
him and say "Nuthindoin." Nix fol
me-" "Go get the doctors prescrip
ton" See?
j And the poor drug and dope user
where do they come in? Well on
re may ask and ponder, for they are tn
IN ones to suffer all the pent up ago
rs MES of hell, for this law that wa
= ushered in without the blare o
e. trumpets, the boasts of temperate
he reformers, or any great amount o
f. publicity, is the great lever that sepa
he rates them from what they most de
re sire, and they, this great army G
a. dopesters, that this law is aimed a
Sc will feel its effects, and suffer. 1t
IFS the secret dopester that will be hun
m most, for they have always been abb
he to cover their tracks, and conce'
se their addiction to the use of the mor'
,ot killing drugs, but now they will
le smoked out and will show themselvt
ed in their true colors, and it will cau'
ID" suffering untold.
on If the storekeeper is not careful !
.rd will let his sympathies or greed fl
ed profit run away with his better judg
aet ment, and probably run full tilt in
he section 9 and awake to the stel
he reality that section 9 means just VIII
M it says. But says, Mr.. Storekeepe
the it means what it says. Now what
mt. thunder does it say? That's the ru
XIV Interpretation of this law is que
the ton that some stand in doubt of al
raw cannot understand, and it is to the
off that write this little offering.
ule The first thing to do is to take
md complete inventory of your stock
ms. drugs, next make copy and send
uld to your wholesale druggist askil
Ter. that they cross off the items tn
am YOU cannot handle and sell witho
he conflicting with this anti-narcotic la
de- and upon its return dispose Of
on prohibited items, either by retul
an ing to your wholesaler or destroyi
led: same.
no The provisions and penalties
nan this law are too severe and the
God cumuIations of wealth by the count
store keeper too small to stand ma
- infections of the above penaliti
therefore my advice to the count
store keeper is play safe and do !
put yourself in conflict with this
ti-narcotic law.