July, 1918 C. U. C. P. ALUMNI JOURNAL 115 



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ADELAIDE RUDOLPH 

 Assistant Librarian 



About the most persistent note sounded by the journals on our library tables 

 to-day is the call to young women to "come over and help" the pharmacists. It is 

 the same cry, from New York to San Francisco. 



On the New York side, Mrs. Emma Gary Wallace, in the June number of 

 the Pharmaceutical Era, voices this urgency with an appeal to every woman now 

 interested in pharmacy to do her utmost to put other women into training : 



"Only a few short months away is the beginning of the college year which 

 should see large numbers of women students enrolled to undertake serious prepa- 

 ration for this work, and during the months of the coming summer these students 

 v/ill be able to gain valuable experience in practical drug store work, for the call 

 lor assistance is much greater than the supply. 



'Then let every woman pharmacist do her part to persuade one or more 

 bright young womxcn about her to prepare for this line of work." 



In San Francisco, The Pacific Pharmacist devotes a large part of its editorial 

 space in its June number to "Women and Pharmacy" : 



"For many years women in small numbers have been gradually working into 

 this honorable calling. Until recently, however, competition with their brothers 

 has been so keen that they were largely excluded from the actual retail trade. 

 This, we take, was largely due to the fact that the men were able to stand longer 

 hours and severely confining work. The women during this period were largely 

 concerned with work in private dispensaries, hospitals and manufacturing con- 

 cerns. This picture has now materially changed. Retailers are now glad and 

 very anxious to obtain competent women. Working conditions are now far more 

 consrenial, and the hours are within reason. 



"The wages in this kind of work are much better than in other lines of simi- 

 lar nature. The work is not heavy. It requires accuracy, neatness, cleanliness 

 and faithfulness. The average trained woman can comply with all of these readily. 



"We need women in Pharmacy today because of the vast call for young men 

 in the military service. It is w^ork peculiarly adapted to women, and we should 

 make every endeavor to encourage as many as possible to go to school and take 

 up this new line of work. The public needs in pharmaceutical lines may be in- 

 trusted to capable women." 



Now, what has the College library to do with this ? Perhaps nothing, as far 

 a? any technical understanding of the situation is concerned. But because this 

 urgent appeal naturally strikes the eye of a librarian before it reaches others who 

 do not make it their business to read the journals so carefully, it seems to be, as 

 tc one nearest within call, a librarian's duty to render first aid in handing the 

 message on to the "many who," as Mrs. Wallace has said, "will pass the oppor- 

 tunity by because it never occurs to them." For that reason I have interested my- 



