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...generation hence many a citizen of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, will be able to point with pride to his framed grade school diploma and tell his moppets that he received it on the very steps of the U. S. Capitol. Episodes to be related to Outagamie offspring happened last week in Washington...
...Doric facade of Washington's Union Station poured two trainloads of eighth grade rural school children, some of their parents, teachers and Superintendent A. G. Meating, organizer of the pilgrimage. Led by their band, clad in bright blue uniforms, the boys and girls marched to the Capitol. There they were addressed by their Congressman, George J. Schneider, and Secretary James William Crabtree of the National Education Association. After 350 small Outagamians had received their diplomas, they marched off again to the White House, serenaded and had a look at President Hoover on his lawn...
...revisers of the U. S. pharmacopoeia, reiterated to the Senate's investigating committee last week the well-known fact that Spanish ergot is better than Russian ergot. The Russian product until recent months has been wormy, lousy and rotten, due to careless handling. Only a low-grade and deleterious extract, says Dr. Rusby, can be made from it. He charged that the food, drug & insecticide administrator has been illegally admitting rotten raw ergot into the U. S. due to the blandishments of manufacturing pharmacists who claimed they could recondition the polluted raw material and make from it an efficient extract...
...week-end it was apparent that this week's rebuttal would come not only from the Federal officials accused but from manufacturing pharmacists whose good reputation was being impugned by Dean Rusby and Importer Ambruster. The direction of the manufacturers' testimony, endorsed by pharmacologists of Dean Rusby's grade, was to be: 1) that Spanish ergot is commercially better than Russian ergot because more fluid extract can be made from a given amount, 2) that Russian ergot can be and is being made into safe fluid extracts which satisfy the high standard of the U. S. pharmacopoeia, 3) that...