Show SAVE SA VB INFANTS SAYS Salt Lake Aug 20 Salt Lake City Cit stands In a fair way of o obtaining a tope nope ordinance now no that should go goa a long Ions way towards lessening the tho wholesale use of o objectionable drugs dregs p both bOUl to tho the mind and tho the body bod and reducing g the tho number ot of Mope lopo fiends After ACter a lengthy discussion ion the be city council sitting silting as a n committee of the whole bole decided Thursday evening to recommend for passage an ordinance prohibiting the sale of or or disposal of o morphine heroin or opium or any an of the derivatives of or opium or any an preparations wherein either IB ia an ingredient except upon the pro proscription of a reputable licensed practicing practicing physician ph and ditch prescription tion lIou shall not bo lie refilled Tho restrictions do not apply appl of oC course to preparations recognized by ny bythe the United States Slates or to standard proprietary medicines that I arc nr not nol narcotic neither do they thoy the ap apply apply apply ply to the tho wholesale sale by bJ Jobbers wholesalers and manufacturers to re tailors nor to sales at retail by b retail druggists to regular practitioners of or medicine dentistry or veterinary med mcd nor sales salos rn made d to manufacturers ers Crt of proprietary or pharmaceutical preparations for ue use In the tho manufacture ture of such preparations nor to sales to tl hospitals colleges scientific or public institutions The penalty for Cor violation ot or the measure Is IB a n fine of or Imprisonment Imprisonment imprisonment in the city elt Jail for six months or both such uch fine and Imprisonment Tho The measure is drafted on lines proposed by the physicians Dr pro r R W liE hor represented tho the doctors doctora and Joy loy Jo H Johnson acted as chief chlof spokes nan rian for the druggists The hitch came over tho the word derivatives and soothing syrups The Tho drug s1 ts rather wanted want d tho the word derl den stricken out and appeared to ho divided di as to whether soothing syrups f are arc sedatives or narcotics In Inthis Inthis this connection It was suggested that the Hie maximum amount ot tho drugs drus or their to be allowed In soothing syrups and the tho like be pIne placed I ed od In the ordinance but nothing was Cone cono ono as to this The physicians ph contend that the Grownup dope fiend Is and lost and that thal the ordinance should be directed more towards pre pro prevention than cure curc According to the physicians many of the soothing syrups contain enough dope to place them In the lie narcotic class and antI the dope habit Is devol devel developed In ninny many man infants through the use usa of C r these syrups Dr Fisher wanted soothing syrups barred un Ul unIor Jer tho the measure soothing nyrup was the tho chief chlof one complained of oc Soothing syrup nyrup stunts the childs growth and hurts hurLs his hI mentality was one of Dr Fishers strong statements Little or no complaint was made mad madI I cough medicines containing drugs Charles Van Dyko ot of o the Van Dyke drug store classed Dr Fishers Fi hers state statements ments nants as to soothing syrup as ns purely theoretical and said that he be has ha no knowledge of the development of a dope fiend from iota the use of soothing syrups syrus Chief of Police Pollee Barlow said that from rom eight to ten dope cases caBOS roach the he police poUce station every evor ton ten or twelve lays Tho The habit starts with smoking then Hum the tho victim drifts to cocaine on account of the time and ant cost caused by b smoking The victims range In tn inage age from 18 IS to 30 years ears The victims leUm obtain the dope through agents or bootleggers Chief Barlow said Raid but buthe the he users ordinarily zealously protect the he distributors of or it Mr Hall FlaIl said that lie he care careo so o much for Cor the old timers hut but that hat he lie thought tho the council ought to too todo 00 do o all an in lt itt 5 powers to save infants fr from rom m the habit and favored a strict measure Such a measure might make a 1 big stock sto k of soothing syrup worth only onh 50 cents on the dollar Mr Ir Hall said aid but money weigh w hh J L Franken of the en cn n store classed tho the soothing syrup proposition as at a big bug bear There l i J little of it sold Bold he said and he never hoard heard of a dope ca case CABO o devel developing from tho the use uc of soothing syrup HUP Too much hair was another of oC Mr lr Frankens complaints Ho He urged that tho word derivatives bo be cn cut tit t out ont Following g this the thc physicians or was recommended for pass ago a Tho The dope measure took up lip lipo bO o much time that tho the committee o did dM not Et gt r t together r Pay Par rolls for the bait half month end endIng Ing 1 Iii 15 amounting to M were authorized s sJ J |