Dr. Udo J. Wile, Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology, University of Michigan, wrote, “I trust nothing will come out of the conference which will confuse the main issue, namely to get the Cummins-Vaile Bill passed. It appears to me that the matter under consideration (protective legislation) is of minor importance. “James F. Morton (lawyer) said that all the ‘doctors only’ laws would be unconstitutional anyhow, and that the only legislative choice lies between the present abominable, unenforced and unenforceable laws and complete freedom of access to knowledge.” Below is given a résumé of all the chief legislative proposals to protect the public from harmful and fraudulent contraceptives, and the reasons why they were turned down by the conference, and were not considered as material to be recommended for the Cummins-Vaile Bill. CERTIFICATION OF CONTRACEPTIVES BY FIVE LICENSED PHYSICIANS The protective section as it now stands in the Cummins-Vaile Bill reads as follows: “The transportation by mail or by any public carrier in the United States or in territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof, of information respecting the means by which conception may be prevented, or of the means of preventing conception, is hereby prohibited except as to such information or such means as shall be certified by not less than five graduate physicians lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine to be not injurious to life or health.” The doctors themselves consider this a weak and unreliable safeguard because, unfortunately, medical opinions can be too easily secured. The certification might therefore in many instances be meaningless. Dr. W. A. Pusey, President of the American Medical Association, in this connection said: “We are only human. So large a body as the medical profession would be bound to contain some undesirables.” CERTIFICATION BY BOARDS OF HEALTH (Suggested by Sen. Spencer and others.) Government health officials are not, as such, necessarily well informed as to the merits or demerits of contraceptives. A few might happen to have valuable judgment, but merely being a public official would be no guarantee. There is wide-spread disapproval of anything that smacks of “State medicine” or governmental administration of the practice of medicine. CERTIFICATION BY CITY HEALTH COMMISSIONERS (Suggested by one of them.) He admitted, however, that he had very little reliable information on this subject. Although a physician, he turned to a layman (the Director of the V. P. L.) for advice as to the best sources for knowledge about contraceptive methods. If one of our best known Health Commissioners could be but a beginner in this study, their group would hardly seem the right one to be given exclusive jurisdiction as to the circulation of contraceptives.