Show VIOLATORS OF DRUG I LAW WILL BE I PROSECUTED The decision of Justice Hughes o othe of th the United States supreme court in upholding the Shirley amendment to o the federal drug law removes the last las obstacle to the prosecution of medical medica fakirs in Utah according to Dr T T. B B. Beatty of the state board df dt health With the obstacle removed Dr Beatty declares that the state board of health and the state dairy and food department department depart depart- ment moat will work together in the prosecution prosecution prose prose- cution of violators of the law The Utah state law is patterned after the federal law and some doubt has existed here as to Its C constitution constitution- allty With the decision of the supreme supreme su su- preme court the doubt has been removed removed re reo re- re moved and the Utah officials believe that they can proceed with prosecutions effectively According to Dr Beatty fake medical med raed ical concerns spend a year in fraudulent advertising The Shirley Shir Shir- ley amendment to the drug law makes it unlawful to misrepresent the curative cura cura- tive powers of medicine in literature accompanying the remedies The good old fashioned almanacs almanacs- the oracles of our grandparents may grandparents may come under the ban of the state dairy and food department of Utah and the United States drug department as represented here by Heber C. C Smith state commissioner These almanacs are usually issued by ay patent medicine manufacturers and andare andare are sent to druggists along with the consignments of cures for various ail all ments The almanacs contain various various va va- rious information all the way from what star every person is born under as to what sort of or a moon to use for planting wheat A principal feature of these literary documents Is always a full fun page frontispiece usually in colors giving the signs of the Zodiac and showing a aman aman aman man in more more or less of a state of ot dishabille dis dis- dis- dis habille and nd with most of his inner workings exposed to the public gaze But neither the re of Zodiac I. I signs nor the advice as as asio io to what sort of ot t you should have If born bornn In n September nor information as to crop planting nor long ong distance weather er forecasts has caused the states state's and displeasure to fall faU upon these hese almanacs Alongside of this information In- In formation is Ia usually shown photographs photographs photo photo- graphs of people living in Oshkosh or orf f Vim puss who were cured of ot tuberculosis osis losis or cardiac trouble or palm corns from rora having used the particular secret combination Uon of herbs and roots which maybe some aged Indian divulged to Dr Bogus There Is always a a. picture of Dr Bogus Bogus Bogus Bo Bo- Bo- Bo gus and his sanitarium and Interested I persons are invited to write and get I samples samples' mailed in a a. plain envelope I Under th the state law ac according to Smith it is possible to go after all aU fraudulent advertisers of drugs or food tood and and Inasmuch as these almanacs and other literature accompany the drugs so advertised manufacturers of ot patent medicines lay themselves as liable by printing extravagant promises on ac accompanying accompanying accompanying ac- ac I companying circulars as by printing erroneous descriptions of what medicines nedi- nedi cines may contain on a bottle label abel Following receipt of Information from Washington that the Shirley amendment to the national drug law Jaw had been upheld by the United States supreme court Commissioner Smith announced today he ho will prosecute all violators of this act both under federal federal fed ted eral and state statutes The supreme court held that the Shirley amendment strikes directly at misstatements either on the label or on printed circulars ac accompanying accompanying ac- ac companying th the medicines |