570  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.    { Am' Sep?" igig""' 
encourage  their  use  as  a  beverage.  Whenever  a  preparation  is 
found  upon  the  market  which  does  not  conform  to  the  required 
standards,  full  tax  liability  and  all  penalties,  civil  and  criminal,  im- 
posed by  the  law,  will  be  asserted  regardless  of  the  ostensible  pur- 
pose for  which  the  preparation  is  made. 
Manufacturers,  wholesale  and  retail  dealers  will  similarly  be 
held  strictly  accountable  whenever  it  is  found  that  the  preparations 
made  or  distributed  by  them  have  been  made  or  distributed  under 
such  preventable  circumstances  as  would  have  assured  them,  had 
they  cared  to  ascertain  the  facts,  that  the  preparations  were  to  be 
distributed  and  used  as  beverages. 
THE  SIXTY-SEVENTH  ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE 
AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  week  of  August  25  to  30  witnessed  a  phenomenal  gathering 
in  New  York  City  of  those  interested  in  the  various  pharmaceutical 
organizations  in  America.  The  banquet  hall  and  ball  room  and  the 
adjacent  parlors  of  the  Hotel  Pennsylvania  offered  exceptional 
facilities  for  the  general  sessions  of  the  Association  and  for  the 
meetings  of  the  various  sections,  committees  and  Council  of  the 
A.  Ph.  A.  and  for  the  concurrent  meetings  of  the  American  Confer- 
ence of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties,  The  National  Association  of 
Boards  of  Pharmacy,  The  National  Pharmaceutical  Service  Asso- 
ciation and  a  conference  of  the  Committee  of  Revision  of  the  U.  S. 
Pharmacopoeia.  It  was  a  very  busy  week  for  many  of  those  in 
attendance,  as  from  Monday  at  9.30  a.m.,  when  the  first  meeting  of 
the  National  Association  of  Boards  of  Pharmacy  was  scheduled, 
until  Saturday  afternoon,  the  program,  as  arranged,  provided  for  a 
continuous  round  of  meetings  or  entertainments  and  meetings  of 
special  committees  had  to  be  "sandwiched"  with  these  somehow. 
The  first  General  Session  of  the  Association  was  held  on  Tues- 
day afternoon,  the  convention  being  called  to  order  by  President 
La  Wall  at  3.40  p.m.  The  formalities  usually  attending  such  na- 
tional meetings  were  omitted  and  this  was  one  of  the  few  occasions 
when  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  convened  without 
an  invocation  to  the  Supreme  Being  for  guidance  and  direction  of 
the  exercises  and  deliberations.    The  letter  of  welcome  from  Mayor 
