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Law-Making, 
( Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(  November,  1920. 
be  said  to  be  impossible  when  the  blood  contains  a  sufficient  amount 
of  this  alkaloid. 
A  full  outfit  of  tents,  cots,  hammocks,  bedding,  canopies  and  camp 
equipment  has  been  carefully  selected.  A  large  part  of  the  stores 
have  been  purchased  from  the  surplus  stock  of  the  U.  S.  Army. 
It  was  originally  designed  to  carry  several  of  the  folding  canvas 
boats  manufactured  in  Kalamazoo,  but  inquiry  has  developed  the 
advice  that  these  boats  could  not  stand  the  rough  waters  to  be 
navigated.  The  native  river  boats  are  very  heavy,  with  thick  and 
hard  walls  and  can  well  resist  the  severe  shocks  resulting  from  striking 
upon  the  rocks  in  the  rapids.  At  many  points,  of  course,  the  boats 
must  be  taken  out  and  portages  made. 
The  party  will  of  necessity  be  well  armed,  primarily  in  order  to 
be  able  to  secure  such  game  as  comes  within  reach,  but  also  to  guard 
against  possible  native  hostility.  Every  precaution  will  be  taken 
to  avoid  such  encounters,  and  one  of  the  surest  ways  of  accomplishing 
this  object  is  that  of  presenting  a  strong  defensive  position. 
Among  the  drugs  which  it  is  expected  will  be  encountered  are 
tolu,  ipecac  of  both  species,  simaruba,  guaiac,  copaiba  of  several 
species,  manaca,  guarana,  muira-puama,  caroba,  several  resins, 
coto  and  para-coto  and  cocillana. 
LAW-MAKING,  RATIONAL  AND  IRRATIONAL.* 
By  James  H.  Beai,, 
Urbana,  IivIv. 
The  faith  of  the  average  American  citizen  in  the  all  sufficiency  of 
legislation  to  cure  social,  economic  and  moral  evils  is  child-like  and 
bland — a  faith  that  is  never  chilled  by  the  fact  that  rarely  in  his 
experience  has  he  known  a  law  to  accomplish  more  than  a  fraction 
of  the  good  that  was  predicted  of  it,  and  that  many  laws  have  either 
failed  altogether  or  have  introduced  greater  or  more  numerous 
evils  than  those  they  were  intended  to  cure. 
The  framers  of  the  American  system  of  government  proceeded 
upon  the  theory  that  the  people  who  were  least  governed — who  had 
the  fewest  laws  to  obey — ^were  the  best  governed.  To-day  this 
ancient  and  once  honorable  doctrine  is  very  much  in  the  discard. 
*  Address  delivered  to  Urbana  Association  of  Commerce.    Reprinted  from 
the  Urbana  Daily  Courier. 
