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We have gone a long way since the concept of
caveat emptor was conceived. In the 19th Century this
principal of let the buyer beware was enunciated at a time
when there were no synthetics, when there were no power-
ful drugs -and I stop here to say that one of my early
interests in this was because rs. 3ard went into Inc
hospital on drug poisoning. If any of you have '.iuL with
this kind of a case in your own fanily, you know ..'.icit
occurred, Within a week after she went in or a few
weeks after that, the drug was taken off the market.
This is just one illustration of where the
hazards are sustained side by side with the hone'.i or civili-
zation-- and when man's machines did not hold the rc'lise
rf niracles and on the other hand the danger of damage to l..fe
and limb.
My own son this week received a notice from an
important automobile association saying he should take his
automobile in,--It is a 1967 car,--as thousands of others
have been informed, because the steering on it is so terri-
bly dangerous that there can be accidents to him.
Today it is impossible for the buyer to beware.