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Wiley,  who  has  so  fearlessly  fought  for  honest  standards  in  both 
foods  and  drugs ;  for,  while  many  persons  may  honestly  object  to 
certain  rulings  and  proceedings  brought  under  the  Federal  Food  and 
Drugs  Act,  we  believe  that  such  objections  as  are  meritorious  and 
such  opposition  as  is  worthy  of  support  should  be  brought  in  an  open 
and  fearless  manner  and  without  subterfuge. 
Resolution:  Whereas,  there  is  pending  in  Congress  an  act  known 
as  "  The  Sherley  Bill,"  H.R.  No.  8,887,  under  the  provisions  of 
which  it  is  proposed  to  levy  a  stamp  tax  of  2^  per  cent,  based  upon 
the  retail  price  of  so-called  patent "  or  proprietary  "  medicines 
and  all  toilet  preparations  of  a  proprietary  character,  and 
Whereas,  Experience  has  demonstrated  that  this  burden  will 
fall  heavily  upon  the  retail  druggist  because  the  added  cost  cannot 
be  passed  to  the  consumer  as  the  retail  price  is  fixed  by  the  manu- 
facturer, and 
Whereas,  The  only  medicines  that  are  really  patented,  viz.,  the 
various  imported  and  domestic  synthetic  products  will  not  come 
under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  for  reason  that  they  are  classified 
as  uncompounded  medicines  upon  which  this  tax  would  not  be  levied ; 
therefore  be  it  . 
Resolved,  That  we,  the  members  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceu- 
tical Association,  in  convention  assembled,  do  solemnly  protest 
against  the  enactment  of  this  measure,  believing  it  tO'  be  a  direct  tax 
upon  a  single  class  of  business,  and  therefore  burdensome  and  unjust. 
PENNSYLVANIA  PHARMACEUTICAL  EXAMINING 
BOARD. 
Licensed  as  Pharmacists. 
Announcement  was  made  by  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Examin- 
ing Board  on  July  6th  that  334  out  of  450  applicants  for  State  licenses 
had  been  successful,  the  number  qualifying  as  pharmacists  being  199 
and  as  assistants  135. 
Philadelphians  who  passed  the  examinations  are : 
Pharmacists:  Samuel  Baradofsky,  William  D.  Baun,  Jennie  Bel- 
litz,  Louis  Bell,  Meyer  Bloomfield,  Frank  E.  Houston,  De  Wilton 
S.  Berry,  Samuel  J.  Brahin,  Osher  Briskin,  Robert  O.  Bricker,  Lloyd 
Burtt,  Franklin  C.  Brush,  Louis  E.  Christopher,  Philip  Cohen,  D. 
Wayne  Darrah,  Charles  C.  Eberly,  David  W.  Eisman,  Lewis 
Fleisher,  Nathan  M.  Friedman,  Walter  J.  Gaskill,  Samuel  Click, 
