Correspondence. 
)Am.  Jour.  Pharra. 
1     February,  1920. 
"The  threat  hanging  over  them  of  what  the  Government  pro- 
posed to  do  killed  spontaneity,  and  creation,  development  and  pro- 
duction died. 
"And  behold,  there  came  the  dark  ages,  when  for  a  thousand 
years  night  prevailed;  when  for  a  thousand  years  the  world  did  not 
produce  a  poet,  an  orator,  an  inventor,  an  artist,  a  navigator,  a 
mathematician;  when  fear  was  supreme,  and  hope  stood  far  away 
in  the  shadow,  shivering  and  cold,  a  finger  to  her  lips. 
"Our  friends  in  Washington  should  read  this  book  on  the  com- 
mon people  of  Rome,  and  learn  the  lesson,  which  is:  the  less  rulers 
mix  in,  dictate  and  try  to  regulate  economic  activities,  the  better 
it  is  for  the  common  people. 
"Weh  did  Thomas  Jefferson  say,  'That  Country  is  governed  best 
that  is  governed  least.'  " 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
PHARMACOPOEIAL  CONVENTION,  MAY  11,  1920 
SECOND  NOTICE. 
In  harmony  with  the  requirements  of  the  By-Laws,  attention  of 
interested  parties  is  called  to  the  meeting  of  the  Tenth  Decennial 
Pharmacopoeial  Convention  of  the  United  States,  to  be  held  be- 
ginning at  lo.oo  A.M.,  May  ii,  1920,  at  the  Willard  Hotel,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  All  incorporated  bodies  and  other  institutions  en- 
titled to  membership  in  this  Convention  are  entitled  to  at  once 
apply  to  Dr.  Noble  P.  Barnes,  Arlington  Hotel,  Washington,  D.  C, 
for  the  necessary  blanks  for  membership  in  the  Convention. 
Prior  to  the  meeting  of  the  Convention,  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials will  meet  in  Washington  to  consider  all  applications  which 
are  made.  It  is  important,  therefore,  that  all  applications  for  mem- 
bership should  be  in  the  hands  of  Dr.  Barnes  at  least  six  weeks  be- 
fore the  date  of  the  meeting.  It  will  be  difficult  to  consider,  properly, 
credentials  which  are  delayed  beyond  that  date  and  especially 
those  which  may  be  presented  at  the  time  of  meeting. 
Sincerely, 
H.  W.  WiivKY,  President,  9th  Decennial 
Pharmacopoeial  Convention  of  the 
United  States. 
