Ą LIVE MAGAZINE FOR DRUGGISTS

JUN 1916

OF MICHELLE
LOKARY

2

3

Raising a Ten Cent Customer

a to a One Dollar Purchaser.

Display Mennen's Shaving Cream on your cigar counter-the man's department. It's a man's article and should not be kept among toilet articles and other things appealing to women, where men seldom go. When you display Mennen's Shaving Cream on your cigar counter it acts as a silent salesman. Just try it for only one week and watch your sales take a jump.

Not only will your sales increase, but it will assist you in making a one dollar customer out of a former ten cent customer.

Users of mug soap seeing Mennen's Shaving Cream prominently displayed will be prompted to make inquiries and try it. You should educate every mug soap user who is a customer of yours to use shaving cream, for it means larger profits for you and greater shaving satisfaction for your customer. The average man uses two cakes of soap a year, which at 5 cents a cake gives you a profit on only 10 cents in a whole year. Sell that same man one tube of Mennen's Shaving Cream, which retails for 25 cents, and you make more profit on the first sale than you do on one year's supply of mug soap. A man averages four tubes of Mennen's Shaving Cream in a year, hence

you make a profit in one year on one dollar as against 10 cents for mug soap. One trial of Mennen's will keep him a one dollar customer, for once a man tries Mennen's he will use no other. Every day we receive hundreds of letters from satisfied users stating that they will never use any other.

Mennen's is used differently; the lather is different and the result is different from all other shaving preparations. Dealers who handle Mennen's and other shaving creams tell us that Mennen's outsells all others.

Without increasing the appropriation, last year our shaving cream sales showed a gain of over 140 per cent. This year's advertising appropriation has been increased it will help you sell more Mennen's.

Your jobber can supply you and also with Mennen's Talcum for Men, the sidepartner of our Shaving Cream. Designed especially for men, it comes in a masculine can, has a man's perfume and will not show white on the face because it has a neutral tint.

If you are not familiar with Mennen's Shaving Cream we will gladly send you a medium size tube together with a free trial of Talcum for Men upon receipt of 10 cents, either in stamps or coin.

The House of Mennen,

SHAVING CREAM DEPARTMENT,

Newark,

New Jersey.

Vol. XXX.

DETROIT, MICH., JUNE, 1916.

No. 6.

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FOREIGN OFFICES:

AUSTRALIA.

THE

which the dyestuffs cargo might be brought BULLETIN OF PHARMACY to this country. Shipping facilities are not

what might be termed good. Issued on the first of every month by

Added to all the rest is the possibility that E. G. SWIFT, PUBLISHER,

Germany may not have the required amount Corner Joseph Campau Ave. and Atwater St., DETROIT, Mich.

of finished goods on hand.
MANAGING EDITOR: HARRY B. MASON.
ASSISTANT EDITOR: ARTHUR L. BUZZELL.
BUSINESS MANAGER: HARRY SKILLMAN.

THE INDUSTRY

While negotiations of this

GROWING character have been going SUBSCRIPTION RATES:

IN AMERICA.

on, however, an American United States and Mexico,

$1.00 per year

dyestuffs industry of no small proportions has Foreign countries,

1.50 per year

been in the process of development. Since the

war broke out more than $100,000,000 has WALKERVILLE, ONT., CAN.

been invested in this country in dyestuffs and 378 ST. PAUL STREET,

MONTREAL, QUE., CAN. 19 AND 20 GREAT PULTENEY STREET, W., LONDON, ENG. chemical industries, not including explosives, 125 YORK STREET, SYDNEY, N. S. W.,

and before the war is over we shall have gone All articles for publication and all communications bearing on

a long way toward being independent in this the text should be addressed:

particular. It is confidently predicted that in EDITOR BULLETIN OF PHARMACY,

another year or two the manufacture of this Box 484, DETROIT, MICH. All business letters should be addressed:

class of goods in the United States will have PUBLISHER BULLETIN OF PHARMACY,

been put on a permanent foundation. Box 484, DETROIT, MICH. Indeed, it would appear that no measure of

relief other than that which may be afforded

by domestic manufacture may be looked for THE MONTH'S HISTORY as long as the war lasts. While it is possible,

of course, that diplomacy may unsnarl the

tangle and that a big shipment may find its A great deal has appeared in

way across the Atlantic, those who are in the SITUATION.

the daily press lately con- best position to tap inside sources of informa

cerning the shortage of dye- tion do not expect such a development. stuffs in the United States. Very often the statement has been made that a big shipment, sometimes claimed to have a value of ten or

A bill has been introduced in

ADVANTAGES fifteen million dollars, was about to be released

Congress the purpose of

METRIC SYSTEM. by Germany, and that England had granted

which is to bring about a permission for the unobstructed shipping of

discontinuance of the use of the Fahrenheit this large consignment.

scale in thermometers. The Lancet-Clinic, a The truth seems to be that the British gov

medical journal, favors the change, and quotes ernment granted licenses several months ago to

this from a contemporary: permit $5,000,000 worth of dyestuffs to come Land is first mapped out in degrees and minutes, to this country, but that Germany has demand- then surveyed by the square mile; roads run ed all along that the goods should be ex- through by the rod, distances are measured by chains

and links. The land is farmed by the acre. It bechanged for cotton—a concession that England refuses to make.

comes valuable for building purposes and is sold by

the foot. Another obstruction is that it would in all

A building is erected by feet and inches, some of probability be found difficult to get ships in the metal work being in feet and tenths. Feet of lum

THE DYE

OF THE

are

*

AND
THE N. A. R. D.

DEATH

ber, neither linear nor cabic, come into the estimate.

year,
this

may be sworn to and used instead of The house is ready for occupancy and is supplied with

an inventory taken at the time application is carpets and curtains by yards of varying width. Contrast this with the metric system, where from the

made. No special form need be followed, but original map down to the minutest particular of house kind and quantity of the narcotics involved furnishing we are dealing with even multiples of the must be definitely stated. A copy must be kept same unit!

on file, also. The Lancet-Clinic sees something childlike

Collectors will refuse registration to those in our adherence to "systems which were born

who do not comply with the provisions of this

ruling, it is announced. when a grain of wheat from the middle of the ear was the standard.”

Matters pharmaceutical are “ JOEL BLANC"

enlivened somewhat nowaIn its crusade against “pat

days by periodical letters sent ADJOURNS COURT.

ent" medicines, the American
Medical Association has been

out by J. Leyden White, until recently the particularly severe in the treatment of Wine of

Washington correspondent of the N. A. R. D. Cardui, manufactured by the Chattanooga

Mr. White uses ink with ginger in it, and his

communications are always interesting—and Medicine Company. Not only was the prepara

therefore welcome-even though they may not tion attacked, but the owners of the company,

be vested with authority. John A. and Z. C. Patten, brothers, felt so aggrieved that they brought heavy damage

Differences exist, it seems, between Mr.

White and the officers of the N. A. R. D.suits against the association and against the editor of the Journal of the A. M. A., George

differences quite acute. So acute, in fact, that H. Simmons. One of these suits was for

Mr. White proposes to divulge a number of in

side facts and figures; to depict a few internal alleged personal libel, John A. Patten, plaintiff,

conditions. All of which will make more inand $200,000 being involved. This case had been on trial five weeks when Mr. Patten suf- teresting reading! fered what was taken to be a slight indisposi

What the N. A. R. D. needs is a new contion. An operation was advised for some

stitution, Mr. White avers; he says, furtherabdominal difficulty, and from the shock of

more, that one of his "offenses” was daring to this he failed to rally. His death came as a

side with the Iowa contingent, which somedecided surprise, and, of course, terminated

what mildly demanded a few reforms at the the personal libel case. The other case pend

last convention of the national body, held in ing, that of the company against the associa

Minneapolis. tion, will doubtless be pushed aggressively.

Mr. White has been succeeded at WashingMr. Patten was connected with a number of

ton by Eugene C. Brockmeyer. large business interests and was prominent in

* * * church circles.

It will be recalled that last

fall a ruling was promulgated The annual tax of $1, im

by the Commissioner of Inposed on all dealers in Harri- ternal Revenue to the effect that the narcotic

son law narcotics, must be content of a preparation should be stated in paid again by July 1, for the coming year. terms of grains, when a Harrison law item This fact should not be overlooked.

was ordered from a jobber or a manufacturer. There is a new ruling in connection with the This ruling was to become operative May 1, payment of this tax which should not be over- but was revoked late in April. looked, either—known as Treasury Decision In ordering such goods now, the quantity of No. 2327. When a dealer makes application the preparation or product must be stated in for reregistration, he must also file with the ounces, if the preparation is a liquid, or the collector a sworn-to inventory of such unex- "units or total thereof” must be stated, if the empted narcotics as he may have on hand at narcotic is contained in a pill, tablet, ampoule, the time the application is made. However, if or suppository. The particular narcotic inhe has on hand an inventory taken the first of volved must be made known, also. Examples: the year, or at some other time during the “32 ounces F. E. Opium Camphorated, in

A
RULING REVISED.

MORE HARRISON

LAW REGULATIONS.