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DRUG STORE AND
PRESCRIPTIONS
FEDERAL PROHIBITION DIREC-
TOR FOR MONTANA TALKS
TO DRUGGISTS
Use Horse Sense I'm Administering
the Law, and When i'm Doubt Write
Advises o. HI. p. Shelley; $50 Doc
tors Have Prescriptions; "a Drug
gists Deal.

Filling a prescription for medicine
whiskey is just as legitimate a bus
ness as filling a prescription for an
medicine, o. H. P. Shelley, fedora
prohibition director for Montana, toll
delegates attending the thirty
annual meeting of the Montana Stat
Pharmaceutical association in session
in Great Falls recently.
]. N. Starbuck of Waller was elect
ed president of the association. Othe
officers are: Miss A. N. Walter, Sher
idan, first vice president; Charlie
Quist, Wisdom, second vice-presi
dent; B. E. Lapeyre, Great Falls
third vice-president; j. N. Talbot
Manhattan, treasurer, and J. A. RE
del, Boulder, secretary.
Five candidates for appointment
by the governor to the state board OF
pharmacy were recommended by the
convention. They are: ]. n. Star
buck, Waller; Charles +. Chapple, Bill
lings; C. Schuehle, Jr., Helena; j. L.
Kraker, Bozeman, and E. w. Con-
verse, Anaconda.
Compliments Druggists
Prohibition Director Shelley told
the convention that the office of pro-
hibition enforcement officer is new
and regulations governing the sale of
medicinal liquors must of necessity
be changed from time to time as more
practical ways of enforcing the law
develop. He complimented the drug
gists of the state for the manner in
which they are handling liquors for
non-beverage purposes, saying that
not more than two druggists in the
state are under suspicion for violat-
ing the, law.
He is making every effort, he said.
to cut red tape in the office and takes
it upon himself to interpret many of
the treasury regulations in terms
that pharmacists can easily under
stand.
"Use horse sense in administering
the law" he urged. when you are
in doubt or when you have some fault
to find with the service of my depart
ment, l will appreciate your writing
me and marking the letter person
al My predecessor had the duties
of enforcement officer only one
month before relinquishing the Of
flee, and / have an entirely new Of
flee force, so it is taking little
time to get the work adjusted"
Two hundred and thirty druggists
of the state have permits to sell
liquors at retail, Mr.. Shell
ley said. There are ESQ doctors who
have permits to issue prescriptions
Other permits held in the state in
clude % manufacturing druggists,
four wholesale druggists, % dentists,
Is hospitals and six breweries.
An emergency prescription can
be used for emergency only-that is,
when the physician has need to issue
a prescription for medicinal purposes
and hasn't the government form at
hand, Shelley said. The emergency
must give all the infor-
nation required on the regular form
and must have the word emergency"
written across the face of it, he
pointed out, and the doctor must re-
place it with one written in form as
soon as possible. There can be no
excuse for patient presenting an
emergency" prescription to drug
gist several days after the doctor
wrote it, he said. He warned them
to use precaution in filling "emer-
gency' prescriptions.
Ninety per cent of the doctors of
Montana are living up to the pres
cription law, the prohibition officer
said, and pharmacists were asked to
report to him physicians who abused
The use of permits.
In reply to Secretary j. A. Riedel's
luery as to what was to be done with
an emergency prescription when it
mad been replaced by one written in
'orm, Shelley said it should be can
,elled and returned to the doctor.
Basic Permit Governs
Replying to President f. A. Woeh-
ler's question as to whether there is |
my limit to the amount of medicinal |
liquor a retail druggist may pur-
,hase, the prohibition director said
hat a druggist can buy each quarter
,nly the amount specified in his basic
,ermit Mr.. Shelley said he believed
hat the basic permits for wholesale
lTuSSlSlS III the SIdl0 5uOuiu Uc III
reased as the total amount possible
O be obtained through wholesalers
n the state is less than the legitimate
demands of retailers.
Shelley said he believed there
hould be a differentiation between
octors who have large practice and
hose who have small practice.
Resolutions were adopted urging
he state board of education and the
resident of the Montana university
D provide adequate quarters and
quipment for the state school of
harmacy, and indorsing four-year
purse in pharmacy at the school,
,ading to the degree of bachelor of
cience in pharmacy. Alex F. Peter (
On of Missoula, chairman of the s
xecutive committee, was instructed
present the resolutions to the
oard of education in person. {
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