Show Prevailing Opinions Opinions I Comment of the American Press The News as Crime At Detroit recently Dr Benjamin Benjamin Benjamin Ben Ben- jamin Jablons of at New York de described described de- de scribed to a convention of at biologists blob biolo gis s a new extract which has been used in a Boston clinic in inthe inthe inthe the treatment of ot Brights Bright's disease Dr Jablons did not give any de details details details de- de tails of at clinical results on human beings but it was learned from other sources that about half hall the cases showed improvement This story was regarded as so important that the Associated Press put it on its wires and newspapers all over the country published it But if it the Copeland bill S. S 5 is passed at the present session of congress it will thereafter be a crime to publish such tion For the Copeland bill provides provides pro pro- vides Section GOlb For the purpose of or this act the advertisement of a drug representing rep rep- resenting it to it Ito have any therapeutic therapeutic therapeutic thera thera- effect in the treatment of ot Brights Bright's d disease cancer tuberculosis tuber tuber- culo ls poliomyelitis infantile paralysis venereal diseases heart and vascular diseases shall be deemed to be And the same Barno bill bm provides Inan in inan inan an earlier clause Section The term advertisement in includes includes in- in eludes all representations of ot fact factor or opinion disseminated to the public In any arty manner or by any means other than by the label label- ing This makes a news story about a dru drug just as much advertising as space bought and paid for tor by a manufacturer and it specifically brands as false advertising story about a drug that seems to tobe tobe tobe be effective in Brights Bright's disease Whether Dr Jablons would go to jail or the reporter who wrote who wrote tho the story or the tho newspaper editors editors editors edi edi- edi- edi tors who printed it or all aU of ot them remains In doubt but there is little doubt that under this statute statute statute stat stat- ute somebody would be crIminally criminally criminally crimi crImi- nally liable for publishing news about an important development in pharmacology A bill which would mako make it a crime to print the news is obviously a bungling bungling- bill Baltimore Evening E Sun Food Food but but for Thought A kind of crop restriction to which there should be no opposition opposition opposition tion has just been undertaken n by bythe bythe bythe the A A A. A This agency has begun begun begun be be- gun the plowing under of at food fads and fears In the Consumers' Consumers Guide it has published d a number of findings which people who fear trouble from their digestions should take trouble to digest Here are a afew afew afew few Acids taken at the same me meal do curdle milk But what of ot It The digestive process curdles the milk anyway Ice cream and sea foods if it fresh are compatible Starches and proteins may be be eaten together because cause the body is equipped to take care of ot such combinations In other words the agricultural adjustment administration seems to say foods that are arc supposed to fight are not necessarily pugnacious It might have added that they are not likely to go o looking for trouble Until until until un un- til their consumer er does does Christian Christian Science Monitor Worse Still StillA A year ago Senator Borah sponsored spon successfully a resolution which outlaws loans to nations in default on their war debt pay pay- ments meats The same senator now Introduces Introduces introduces in In- a resolution making It a a. crime punishable by ten years years' ears imprisonment imprisonment im im- and a fine of ot not more than for lor any person firm or corporation public or private to lend mone money or extend cr credit to any foreign loreign government or nation except governments on the American Ameri Amen can continent The first re resolution was vas unsound and indefensible The record is clear that it has not facilitated debt payment nt but has hns imposed new difficulties dif dit- in the way of at restoration of ot normal International commercial commercial commer commer- cial relations The pending ending resolution is even more indefensible It Is 15 designed 1 to outlaw l both th the extension cf of credit cred credo it and th the advance of capital to all foreign nations except those on this continent without r. r regard gard to their needs for lor our financial assistance and our need for their markets Th The argument advanced by Mr f Borah r in support ot of lila hia policy is ia that war again threatens in Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope and Am American rican investors might in the event ent of an an outbreak again incur lo losses es So they might war or orno orno orno no war But if it is the policy of ot this nation to prevent European loans until all danger of war there has passed it will be Impossible in indefinitely indefinitely in- in definitely to extend credit cedit and thus to resume normal commercial relations relations rela rela- with the European countries some of ot which are among our best customers Cleveland Cleveland Plain Dealer Deal Deal- er |