450  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {As™ptJembef,bi9o™' 
REPORT  OF  THE  THIRTY-FIRST  ANNUAL  MEETING 
OF  THE  PENNSYLVANIA  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSO- 
CIATION. 
By  C.  H.  and  M.  R.  LaWall. 
( Continued  from  page  403. ) 
At  this  point  Mr.  M.  N.  Kline,  of  Philadelphia,  desired  the  privi- 
lege of  the  floor,  regretting  that  he  had  not  been  present  at  the 
previous  session  when  the  delegates  were  called  for  from  the  National 
Wholesale  Druggists'  Association.  He  desired  to  say  a  few  words 
upon  the  general  subject  of  legislation,  in  which  the  druggists  are 
interested.  He  called  attention  to  two  present-day  tendencies  in 
the  matter  of  this  particular  kind  of  legislation,  one  exceedingly 
gratifying  and  the  other  calling  for  our  attention  and  interest.  He 
spoke  of  the  passage  of  the  Food  and  Drugs  Act  in  June,  1906, 
and  commended  it  as  a  basis  for  the  States  to  take  into  considera- 
tion in  forming  laws,  which  has  already  been  done  in  a  number  of 
Commonwealths.  With  the  exception  of  Oklahoma  and  Louisiana, 
where  there  have  been  introduced  provisions  which  are  more  or  less 
radical  from  our  standpoint,  the  matter  of  legislation  accomplished, 
on  the  whole,  calls  for  congratulation.  The  tendency  of  which  he 
particularly  wished  to  speak,  because  our  own  law  has  not  yet 
been  enacted,  is  the  fact  that  in  many  of  the  States  the  regulation 
of  the  sale  of  medicines  under  these  laws  has  been  placed  in  the 
hands  of  people  who  are  not  pharmacists,  and  who  are,  there- 
fore, not  best  qualified  to  enforce  the  various  provisions.  The  second 
tendency  to  which  he  called  attention  was  the  injection  of  what 
might  be  called  practical  politics  into  legislative  matters  of  this 
kind.  He  warned  the  members  against  a  law  which  is  now  pending 
in  Congress,  which  was  introduced  during  the  closing  of  its  first 
session  by  Congressman  Mann,  which  he  considers  a  most  specious 
piece  of  legislation.  It  is  intended  to  prohibit  the  sale  of  habit- 
forming  drugs ;  but  its  provisions  in  some  respects  are  so  radical, 
that  they  require  modification  in  order  to  prevent  its  working  a 
hardship  upon  the  members  of  the  drug  trade.  He  concluded  by 
calling  attention  to  the  manner  in  which  physicians  have  come 
together  on  legislative  matters,  and  suggested  that  the  pharmacists 
do  the  same. 
Mr.  Emanuel  arose  and  defended  the  present  Pennsylvania  law, 
