Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1919- 
Announcements. 
399 
all  of  385  items,  and  this  does  not  include  elixirs  and  other  forms 
of  galenicals,  nor  the  items  of  the  price  lists  of  other  manufactur- 
ers not  mentioned  in  the  list  referred  to.  Hence,  it  is  apparent  that 
druggists  are  compelled  to  stock  and  report  upon  hundreds  of 
narcotic  preparations,  many  of  which  could  be  eliminated  from  the 
lists  and  the  burden  of  the  wholesaler  and  retailer  lightened. 
We  respectfully  ask,  therefore,  that  the  members  of  your  or- 
ganization give  consideration  to  the  desirability  of  standardizing  the 
lists  of  the  preparations  referred  to  by  minimizing  the  number  of 
items  of  narcotic  products  to  the  end  that  the  details  of  keeping 
narcotic  records  may  be  simplified  and  time  and  work  saved. 
Of  course,  we  realize  that  there  are  trade  demands  which  neces- 
sitate the  listing  of  many  narcotic  products,  but  we  believe  that  there 
is  a  marked  tendency  in  the  medical  profession  towards  the  much- 
lessened  use  of  narcotic  drugs  in  the  treatment  of  disease,  and  that 
the  medical  profession  would  not  seriously  object  to  the  excision  of 
many  narcotic  formulas  from  the  lists,  and  they  would  not  be  denied 
the  use  of  such  narcotic  drugs  as  they  could  readily  have  them 
compounded  extemporaneously. 
GRAND  CENTRAL  PALACE,  NEW  YORK,  TO  BECOME  A 
WORLD  TRADE  MART. 
Government  to  Turn  Building  Back  to  Merchants  and 
Manufacturers  Exchange. 
One  of  the  biggest  enterprises  to  be  embarked  upon,  having  in 
mind  the  extension  of  American  commerce  in  foreign  countries,  as 
well  as  the  importation  of  foreign  goods  to  America,  has  just  been 
inaugurated  in  New  York  City.  It  is  the  new  proposition  of  the 
Merchants  and  Manufacturers  Exchange  of  New  York  to  make 
Grand  Central  Palace  a  great  clearing  house  for  world  commerce. 
On  September  30,  the  United  States  Government  will  turn  Grand 
Central  Palace  back  to  the  Merchants  and  Manufacturers  Exchange. 
For  months  this  great  twelve-story  building — the  largest  exposition 
building  in  the  world — which  occupies  an  entire  city  block,  has  been 
used  as  an  army  base  hospital.  Its  evacuation,  now  taking  place, 
will  permit  reconstruction  of  the  entire  interior  so  as  to  make  it 
ideal  as  a  permanent  show  place  for  all  sorts  of  manufactured 
