In the Pharmaceutical Eye of both German speaking and English pharmacists of this country, is Hugo Kantrowitz, of New York City, best known as editor of the Deutsch-Amerikanische Apotheker-Zeitung which is the only pharmaceutical publication in this country printed in the German language. It was established in 1880. Mr. Kantrowitz has long been active in national as well as local pharmaceutical affairs. He is a regular attendant at the A. Ph. A. meetings and is an associate member of the Chicago V. D. A.

Hugo Kantrowitz.

Lawrence C. Lewis.

Lawrence C. Lewis, of Tuskegee, Ala., Pre the National Association of Boards of Pharm represented on the cover of MEYER B DRUGGIST for July. He again calls attentio annual meeting at Indianapolis, the week of 27.

The Fairchild Scholarship to be awarded u auspices of the A. Ph. A. is something new country. An examination will be held Septe Schools eligible to participate should com at once with the chairman of the commit fessor E. G. Eberle, Bourse Bldg., Philadelph

Market Review, Pages 266-269.
St. Louis Relief Clerks, Page 97.
Want Advertisements, Pages 114, 115.
Index to Advertisements, Pages 112, 113.
Board of Pharmacy Secretaries, Page 65.

Board of Pharmacy Examination Questions, Page 260.
Patent and Proprietary Price Lists, Pages 3-42.

Editorial

St. Louis a Great Commercial Center.-The financial stability of this city has been demonstrated on many occasions, one of the most recent being the large contributions to the Red Cross. The city was well to the front in the purchase of Liberty Bonds, and has stood the strain of financial depressions when other cities met with disaster. The geographical location of St. Louis places it in command of a very large and prosperous territory, reaching in all directions. St. Louis is not satisfied with the slogan of "business as usual" but in these times of great activity, the motto is to make business "better than usual." The trade located in the territory tributary to St. Louis can depend upon receiving very careful attention to all orders for goods.

One of the facilities for making business better than usual is St. Louis is the great postal system. Postmaster General Burleson and his assistants have worked out and inaugurated a general postal system for the United States which is second to none in the world. Postmaster Colin M. Selph, of St. Louis, has systematized the St. Louis post office so efficiently that those living in St. Louis and those doing business with St. Louis receive the highest degree of postal service to be found anywhere in the world. Both the dispatch and the deliveries of the United States mails are carried on with pleasing regularity and efficiency, no matter how great the task may be. Those having occasion to correspond with St. Louis as well as those living in this city are to be congratulated on the postal facilities.

I Will Tie Up One Thousand Dollars in Liberty Bonds. Such was the statement recently made by a retail druggist and it is a common thought that money placed in this manner is really tied up. Money invested in liberty loan bonds is in no way "tied up." So far as the government is concerned the money paid in for these bonds, including that loaned our allies, is being and is to be spent in this country, and, therefore, immediately paid back to the people for labor and products of the United

States. So far from being "tied up" this money is in effect never withdrawn from circulation. So far as the investor in the Liberty Loan bond is concerned, his money is not "tied up," since there is always a ready market for United States government bonds. Everybody knows this. As shown by the subscription the demand for Liberty Loan bonds exceeded the supply 50 per cent. This creates an immediate market for Liberty Loan bonds. Another issue will be offered to the people, the announcement of which will be made by Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo in due course. The oversubscription of the first issue is an indication of what may be expected for the second issue, which it is hoped will meet with a larger number of subscribers and a greater sum subscribed.

The Mailing of Liquor Advertisements Prohibited.Beginning with July 1, 1917, a new law went into effect which prohibits the mailing of advertisements of liquor into dry territory. The rules and regulations have not been perfected and the Department of Agriculture is deluged with inquiries. It may be said in a general way, however, that periodicals must discontinue liquor advertisements going into dry territory. Nor is it permissible to mail such advertising matter under the class of printed matter. The old question of what constitutes liquor remains to be settled. It is very likely that the Postoffice Department will class as liquor every preparation on which the government requires a special internal revenue tax as a liquor. Of course, alcoholic medicinal compounds which cannot be used as beverages are exempted.

The War Stamp on Proprietary Medicines met with disfavor in the Committee on Ways and Means. Pharmacists, the country over, are ready to meet their share of the war tax and carry a proper share of the great burden which the country must sustain for perhaps a few years. The stamp tax on medicines as proposed was, however, so manifestly unjust to both the drug trade and the public that the committee rejected the proposition. It is probable that information on the Canadian plan which reached the Committee on Ways and Means also had its influence, because the Canadian plan is reported a failure by the government at Ottawa. The drug trade of the United States is better organized than ever before and if properly considered by the government will prove a valuable aid in the prosecution of the war and in sustaining its share of responsibilities.

You May Not Have Had the Good Fortune to Have Personally Known the Late Professor C. Lewis Diehl. -All pharmacists of today, however, have heard of Professor Diehl and his long life of work in the interest of his calling. This fact is sufficient in itself to cause the subscribers of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST to read with interest the Personal Expressions regarding Professor Diehl which we are publishing in the August issue from the pen of a daughter. The literary skill possessed by Miss Diehl