Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-31
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OMAHA, Aug. SO.--To the Editor n the
Bee: SUPPOSE that every day should be
as beautiful as today for the next month
1t might happen so. for this was GER
tainly a perfect Nebraska day and our
parks at this season are more inviting
than NJ any time Yet we read Of tho
building Of n hideous covered wooden
tabernacle. where there will be a special
room or space shut off for little children
20 be shut in.
With such beautiful natural "taber-
nacles' as our parks are. In which to
worship. instead Of a hot, il.smelling.
noisy, expensive pen, why do not all of
these ministers say to their flocks. who
are just now In most unnaturally tn
famed state OF mind. What we all need
Is park revival. and not an evangeli-
cal racking.'"
Why are little children. helpless. hauled
into this pen to witness the spectacle OF
a man on a religious jag?
Had we left the choice to these same
little ones. would they have chosen a
park revival" or 81 ly Sunday Tuning?
A park revival, with music every at
ternoon 10 celebrate our beaut fdl Ne
braska early fall sounds to me very ap-
propriete.
There will be many visitors in the city
for the next six weeks from the small
towns and farms. Think Of the pleasure
TO these visiting women and children
music might be. What an opportunity
for these ministers, who have such obe-
dent families In the palms of their hands.
to say, Scatter all Of you to our parks,
and there forget your sins for a while
IN the clear air and beautiful sight of
foliage and grasa" II. B.
Attempt TO Botch PhaPmacOpOeia.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Aug. 29.-To the
Editor OF The Beetle raid of the pro-
hibitionists upon the revision Of the
Pharmacopoeia will have no legal effect
whatever; and the attempt to drop
whisky and brandy from the list of
remedies. to be described in a future issue
Of the Pharmacopoeia, must be futile as
II is foolish. The Pharmacopoeia Is not
a government publication and Is not by
any means the sole descriptive list of
remedies employed in medicine, and can
not confine druggists.
The assumption, in the kilograms stat
ing that the committee of revision had
voted 20 to "a. DR.. Wiley presd ng, to
drop whisky and brandy from the list,
that the act would compe drug lists u
take out a saloon license to sell whisky
and brandy, has no foundation nor
cogency. The action of a partisan com
mittee does not fix the list of remedies.
Medicine is free; license for the sac of
whisky by druggists as a medicine de-
ponds upon existing federal ANA STATE
enactments and not upon the Pharma-
copoeia.
But the telegraphed assumption be-
trays clearly the intent of the prob. Di-
tionists who have apparently mastered
the revision for the time being. For at
one time the committee dropped the whole
subject as unworthy of attention. Then
1t was reconsldered by a close majority;
and exclusion was adopted after hot
debate. Is to "a
Mr.. Leonard Martin of Boston is re-
ported by a Boston paper as making the
following demand al prohibition meet
ing. July IL, 1915, on Boston common
''One of the first things we must attack
IL the druggists license. The alcohol
privilege must be erased from the
Pharmacopoeia-" Mr.. Martin deceives
himself. The Pharmacopoeia grants no
rights nor privileges.
The principal guide Of the druggist is
the Dispensatory. a list of RENE, quite
independent of the Pharmacopoeia. In
deed, the editors of the DLspensatory In
times past have stated their refusal to
follow the radical action of the commit
tee in charge OF the Pharmacopoeia- Il
Is imposs BILE to rule out the use Of valu-
able remedies. whisky and brandy, by
an arbitrary list. HENRY c. MAINE.