The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-08-04
DRUGGISTSPLAN.
FOR TEST CASE.
Validity of SOrlie Appoint
ment to Pharmacy Board
Questioned at Fiery Session

Fireworks-and plenty Of them
marked the closing meeting Of the
North Dakota Pharmaceutical asso-
citation here Wednesday.
The association voted to make u
test case of Governor Sorlie's refus
al to appoint VI. Fl. Costello. Coopers-
town..as, a member of the state phar-
macy board, and adopted resoiu-
ton supporting the old board for its
rcfusal to seat Louis Rosoff, Grand
Forks, a sorie appointee, as mem
her
-Rosoff appeared on the floor Of
the convention to expound his views.
attacking the present system under
which the association is governed as
one Of "czarism." Nels N. Brake,
Neville, retiring president, departed
from the calmness which had marked
bis presiding and gave fiery speech
defending himself and attacking
.Rosoff.
IL Resolution Wins Easily
The resolution supporting the
hoard was passed by vote of So to
40 after members had YEARLY dis
cussed for an hour or SO whether
certain phrases in it which referred
70 Rosoff personally, and said that
the governor had made the appoint
ment because Of political support
from the Grand Forks man. should
be allowed to remain. They were
finally stricken out.
Rosoff said that he did not be-
lieve the resolution was the senti-
ment Of the entire membership of
the association and declared that
..thcre are four or five fellows in
here who are making all the noise
He accused Brake Of favoritism
and steam-roller tactics, charging
that 1.-The president appoints three Of
his friends on the nominating COM
mittee. lie knows who to pick:
Three men who come to him to find
out who to nominate. You have a
little monarchical organization here.
You don't elect a president. You
che. a car or a kaiser"
Burt Finney, Bismarck, stressed
the point that the resolution was
mo- intended a. personal matter
bu. . clarity tse law and find out
W. esher the governor was within his
r. hts when he appointed Rosoff
over the associations negotive ac-
Wen.
Brake Makes Heated Talk
!. Things were beginning to calm
down again when President N. N.
Brake rose to his feet. Denying
that he had ever had anything to say
about nominations and that, any
members Of the nominating commit
tee had come to him for advice on
whom to choose, he exclaimed:
81 think Mr. Rsoff is too young ir.
this organization to tell us what we
should do. He has been druggist
in this state longer than have, and
yet this is the first meeting he has
attended. He joined the association
ic. 1925 and now he wants to become
aahigh mogul. There are steam roll
err tactics for you!'
s Fargo Man Named President
Glenn Cook. Fargo. president; Fred
A. Maser, Glen Ullin, first vice
tresident; J. C. Dill, La Moure. Sec
ond vice president; P. H. Costello.
Cooperstown, treasurer. and w. S.
Sudro, Fargo, secretary. were put
forward by the nominating commit
tet and formally elected.
The association selected the names
of Carl Odney, Jamestown; Fred
Hall, Halliday. and Edgar p Martin,
Hazen, as nominees for the position
on. the state board Of pharmacy now
hefd by S. J. Sureseth, Langdon; and
the names of John Cowan. Bismarck;