WANTED-By registered pharmacist; eleven years experience as pharmacist and manager; paint and wall paper experience; married; best of reference; want permanent position. Address 8585, care Midland Druggist & Pharm. Review. Apr. 2ts. SITUATION WANTED-As drug clerk, reg. asst., 18 years practical experience. References A-1. Salesman and worker. Address 8593, care Midland Druggist & Pharm. Review. May-1tp SITUATION WANTED-As drug clerk, relief or steady position; have had about 18 years good experience. Address 8594, care Midland Druggist & Pharm. Review. May-1tb Post Cards of Quality. We have just received a sample lot of post cards in platine (black and white), sepia and sepia hand-colored effects, and can assure our readers they are as beautiful as any foreignmade cards. These cards are the product of the Albertype Company, of Brooklyn, who have long since adopted and strictly adhered to the policy of protecting their patrons. Extracts from letters received from their customers all show the greatest satisfaction with and appreciation of the goods sent on their orders. If stocking post cards at all, you will want the kind that are beautifully made and sell rapidly. Write the Albertype Company, 250 Adams St., Brooklyn, N. Y.—[Adv.]. RELIEF WORK wanted by J. J. MACK Registered Pharmacist CLEVELAND, O. 2306 East 38th St., S. C. & Co. -H. V. G. Co. Gannett Peak, Wyoming, nearly 14,000 feet in elevation, and the highest mountain in the state, is on the divide between Bonneville and Bridger, national forests. TANGLEFOOT The Sanitary Fly Destroyer---Non-Poisonous. Gets 50,000,000,000 flies a year-vastly more than all other means combined. Poisons are dangerous. CHEMICALS COMMERCIAL AND CHEMICALLY PURE ACIDS, AMMONIA, GLAUBER'S SALT, SAL SODA, ACETATE OF LEAD, SILICATE OF SODA, AND OTHER HEAVY CHEMICALS. WHEN ORDERING FROM YOUR JOBBER, SPECIFY GRASSELLI BRAND. Newedd-Did you sew the button on my over coat, love? Mrs. Newedd-No, darling; I couldn't find the button, so I just sewed up the buttonhole. -Boston-Post. SPRAYING CHEMICALS Habits, is the only sure and rational treatment for those addicted to DRINK or DRUGS. Send for Free Booklet and terms. 1087 North Dennison Ave.. COLUMBUS OHIO When writing advertisers, please mention the "Midland Druggist and Pharmaceutical Review." Including Pharmaceutical Review, 26 volumes: Pharmaceutical Archives, 6 volumes; No. 6. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. United States, $1.00; Canada, $1.35 per annum. Foreign countries in Postal Union, $1.50 per annum. Remittances with subscription. Published on the 1st of each month by The Midland Publishing Company, Columbus, Ohio. EDITORIAL NOTICE. The opinions and policies of this publication are given expression in its editorial columns. Our remaining columns are open to contributions upon any topic of pharmaceutical interest, it being understood that the views there expressed are those of the contributors, and do not necessarily imply editorial endorsement. ABOLISHING THE GUARANTY CLAUSE. THE guaranty clause and serial number authorized by regulation under the Food and Drugs Act of 1906, is to be abolished, and serial numbers filed with the Department of Agriculture will be cancelled on May 1, 1915.* While the purpose of this guaranty clause has always been clear to the initiated, many manufacturers wilfully distorted its meaning and claimed their goods were guaranteed by the government. This fraud practiced on the public was so patent that the wonder is that officials have permitted it to exist for eight years, when the abuse of it was so early recognized. It seems Chief Alsberg has stolen a march on the manufacturers who have so largely benefitted by the use of this mis-leading legend on labels. By peremptorily issuing the decision he leaves no ground for arguments which would undoubtedly have been forthcoming against this action, had he made his purpose known. Where there was not actual and intentional perversion of meaning by the manufacturer, the same erroneous impression prevailed in the minds of the public through careless reading of the clause. The department is sending out notices to 58,000 manufacturers advising them of the new ruling and that hereafter guarantees and serial numbers may not be attached. to packages, but must be placed on the invoice. The new ruling will be found elsewhere in this issue. Since the above was sent to press the decision has been amended making this date May 1, 1916. AN EFFORT ON THE PART OF THE AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION TO CONCILIATE THE DRUG TRADE OF OHIO. WE E are in receipt of three separate and distinct circulars closely following each other, two of them addressed to the drug trade of the state and one to the members of the Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association. The two general circulars emanate from the Agricultural Commission. The third is signed by some officers and members of the O. S. P. A. At a meeting of the Agricultural Commission of Ohio held April 28, 1914, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "The Agricultural Commission of Ohio interprets the Insecticide and Fungicide Act and the Feed Stuffs Act as exempting from their provisions all drugs, chemicals, etc., recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia, National Formulary or other recognized standards; all preparations extemporaneously prepared or compounded for customers for consumption and not for re-sale; all preparations for which no claims are made for insecticidal or fungicidal properties, and all proprietary medicinal preparations and stock foods upon which license has already been paid by the manufacturer." Very truly yours, BENJ. F. GAYMAN, Secretary. Our first impression on reading this circular, or rather the resolution itself, was that the Commission had finally gotten some practical view of the provisions of these laws and that a way might now possibly be open for an amicable adjustment of the contention. It will be remembered by our readers that we reported several efforts made by committees, both from the O. S. P. A. and others, to secure certain rulings. Reference to the interpretation of the law as made by Doctor Beal in our issue for December, 1913, will show that nothing was asked for which the resolution now passed does not grant. The resolution has gone way beyond the expectation of these committees, and is indeed very sweeping in its character. Having in mind the possibility of an adjustment, this journal asked the attorneys for the plaintiffs in these cases an opinion regarding the status of the law under this resolution, and we print herewith the reply: WILLIAMS, WILLIAMS, TAYLOR & NASH ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW. RUGGERY BUILDING THE MIDLAND DRUGGIST, Columbus, Ohio: May 21, 1914. DEAR SIRS: Our attention has been called to a circular recently issued by the Secretary of the Agricultural Commission of Ohio setting forth the language of a resolution adopted April 28, 1914, by the Agricultural Commission, in which said Commission attempted to interpret the meaning of the Insecticide and Fungicide Act and the Feed Stuffs Act. This interpretation is so at variance with the plain terms of the Acts that it seems proper to call your attention to some of the provisions of the Acts themselves in order that you may see how violently the Commission is departing from the plain provisions of the law in their so-called interpretation. It may not be improper in this connection to call attention to the fact that it is no business of the Commission to undertake to interpret Acts. It is their business to execute and enforce them. If there is any doubt about the meaning of the law it is the business of the courts to interpret and construe the law, and not for the executive officers. The Agricultural Commission says that according to their view all drugs, chemicals, etc., recognized by United States Pharmacopoeia, National Formulary, or other recognized standards, are exempted from the operation and provisions of the act. The Insecticide Law says that each person, firm or corporation who manufactures, sells or offers for sale in this state arsenate of lead, Paris green, lime sulphides, miscible combinations of mineral or vegetable oils, Bordeaux mixture or any insecticide or fungicide or essential ingredients thereof used for the control of insects or fungus diseases in the state would come within the operation of the law. There is no exception of the character indicated in the circular in question. Section 12 of the Act provides that whoever sells within this state any of the articles named without complying with the provisions of the act, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $200 for the first offense and for any subsequent offense not less than $200 nor more than $500. And nobody who comes within the express terms of the act is exempt from this penalty. The circular further states that all preparations extemporaneously compounded for customers for consumption and not for re-sale, are regarded as exempted from the provisions of the Act. The Act itself makes no such exemption. The penalty of the Act does not apply to the offering for re-sale but to offering for sale or selling. The circular further states as another exemption "all preparations for which no claims are made for insecticidal or fungicidal qualities." Of course if a preparation is not an insecticide or fungicide or has no insecticidal or fungicidal qualities or is not used for the control of insects or fungus diseases within the state, it would not come within the operation of the insecticide and fungicide act. But who is to determine the question as to whether any claim is made as to its having |