Am.  Tour.  Pharra.  \      JS[ews  IfcJIlS  and  PcrSOIld  NotCS.  621 
August,  19  iS.  > 
School,  Williamsport,  Pa.,  on  Friday  and  Saturday,  August  30  and 
31,  1918.  Applications  should  be  addressed  to  L.  L.  Walton,  Sec- 
retary, P.  O.  Box  No.  265,  Williamsport,  Pa. 
At  the  recent  examinations  held  in  Philadelphia  and  Pittsburgh, 
there  were  131  candidates  for  pharmacists'  certificates  of  which  89 
were  successful  and  of  the  150  examined  for  license  as  assistant 
pharmacists  88  passed  the  test. 
The  Complaint  of  the  Federal  Trade  Commission  Against 
Eli  Lilly  &  Co. — The  Federal  Trade  Commission  has  cited  the 
well-known  pharmaceutical  manufacturing  firm,  Eli  Lilly  &  Co.,  of 
Indianapolis,  Ind.,  to  appear  before  that  body  and  defend  them- 
selves against  charges  of  having  violated  certain  sections  of  the  Fed- 
eral Trade  Commission  Act  and  of  the  Clayton  Act.  Exception  is 
taken  by  the  Commission  to  the  method  adopted  by  this  firm  in  fixing 
standard  jobbing  and  retail  prices  for  its  products  and  further  that 
their  methods  discriminate  in  price  between  different  purchasers  of 
drugs  and  further  that  their  contracts  of  sale  contain  agreements  that 
the  purchaser  shall  not  use  the  wares  of  other  manufacturers  who 
are  competitors. 
The  "discount  sheet"  to  jobbers  or  preferred  quantity  pur- 
chasers and  the  "  preference  clause "  have  heretofore  been  very 
commonly  in  use  in  the  drug  trade  as  well  as  in  many  other  lines  of 
commerce  and  manufacturing.  It  would  seem  that  some  such 
method  for  stabilizing  prices  of  standard  wares  and  to  assure  the 
dealer  a  just  remuneration  has  always  been  considered  as  a  proper 
business  method. 
The  outcome  of  this  action  will  necessarily  have  an  important 
bearing  upon  the  future  conduct  of  the  drug  business.  While  now 
the  cause  of  considerable  unrest  and  alarm  to  trade  circles,  these 
actions  of  the  Federal  Trade  Commission  will  no  doubt  ultimately 
result  in  compelling  the  commercial  interests  of  the  country  to  see 
that  Congress  will  enact  laws  that  shall  recognize  correct  and  proper 
methods  of  merchandizing  and  the  stabilizing  of  prices  and  at  the 
same  time  protect  against  monopolistic  profiteering  and  deceptive 
advertising  and  the  unfair  methods  of  price-cutting. 
Antoine  Chiris  Company  Established  One  Hundred  and 
Fifty  Years. — In  commemoration  of  the  one  hundred  and  fiftieth 
anniversary  of  the  establishment  of  the  house  of  Antoine  Chiris  at 
