Evening star., 1924-09-25
RAPS Government
FOR TAX BURDEN
DR.. J. H. BeaI Tells Druggists
Convention Bureaucracy
Is Increasing.

Faults with the present day Gov
ernment were outlined and condemned
by Dr. j. II. Beal. speaking today be-
fore the 26th annual convention of
the National Association of Retail
Druggists in Convention Hall, Fifth
and l. streets northwest He spoke
on the subject Some First Principles
and Some Common DelusionS." during
which he charged that the increase
OF bureaucracy in the Government
had increased the taxes, which the
bureaucrats tried to make the people
believe was paid by the rich. But in
the end. he said, the consumer pays
not only the tax, but the cost of col
lecting it, which is double and treble,
many times. the original tax.
His speech came after morning
OF consideration of reports from va
rious committees and symposium
on the United States pharmacopeia
and national formulary.
Peoples Rule in Doubt.
Matters have come to state. said
DR.. Beal, whereby one can never tell,
when there are more than two can
didates in the field, whether the choice
viii be that of the people or of some
coalition in Congress. Even the
method of amending the Constitution
does not assure that amendments are
by will of the people, he continued.
out or every | learners above
the age of is years, he said. one is
public servant-one tax consumer for
every IL wage-earners. He said the
question now is not what are we COM
ing to. but where have we arrived.
He referred 10 what he called the
cheap money" delusion or the notion
OF the people that a governments
money ills can be corrected by the is
suance of mere scraps of paper on
promise to pay. The higher paper
wages go up, the less the paper will
buy, for men will not exchange in
trinsic things for mere scraps of pa
per. The cheap money theory has
been very thoroughly exploded for
the present generation.
w. A. kaminslti chairman of the
committee on United States Pharna-
copaea and national formulary propa-
ganda. read his report, and with him
presiding the convention formed it,
self into symposium for a discus
sion of the report. He said that many
pharmacists were losing interest in
manufacturing because of the alcohol
Many of them. he said, are getting
along without alcohol because of the
detail work. to make out many reports
required by the law. However. he
said that necessary as the Government
has allowed the use of alcohol in medi-
cine, the pharmacist should shoulder the
responsibility.
Cooperation Urged.
He urged cooperation between the
physician and the pharmacist, and
discouraged the dispensing of drugs
at the physicians office.
Speakers found fault with the Gov
ernment rulings on alcohol, one OF
them pointing out that a Government
agent had informed him that they
came too fast and changed so often
that he really didn't understand
them himself.
j. w Weiss reporting for the com
mittee on finance, urged continued
efforts to provide a national home for
the organization. James +. Finneran.
councillor of the United States Cham
ber OF Commerce, told the delegates
of the work of that organization in
behalf of business.
A. '. Burdine. reporting for the
committee on transportation. told of
the efforts to get convention rates
of a fare and half for the delegates
to this convention. Twice it was
given and twice it was recalled, he
said.
He explained that the reason for
the recall of the privilege was that
the railroads had ruled that such
rates should be given to conventions
out of which profit was to be made.
He said this convention did not come
under this category and that he had
finally succeeded in convincing the
railroads of it.
The afternoon session OF yeste rda y
was given over to the consid ra-
tion of resolutions which will be con-
sidered at the final session of the
convention tomorrow morning.
Director A l. Stern of the drug
exhibition, which is being held in
Convention Hall in connection with
the convention, says that tonight will
be the last night. 1t had been the
intention to continue it until the con-
vention ended. but for some reason
it was decided to close it tonight