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C. U. C. P. ALUMNI JOURNAL 



A VICTORY FOR AMERICAN PHARMACIST S^ 



By Geo. F. Payne, N. Y. C. P. '76. 



Dr. Payne has ever been an earnest and active organization worker. 

 For twenty -six years he has been fighting the fight that has now resulted 

 in greatly improved conditiotis for pharmacists in the government service. 



The pharmacists of the United States 

 and the pharmaceutical press which have 

 worked so faithfully since 1894 for the 

 better recognition of pharmacy in the 

 United States Government Service, along 

 modern lines, are now able to congratu- 

 late themselves upon the very signal suc- 

 cess of their recent campaign of educa- 

 tion in behalf of the pharmacists of the 

 United States Army. 



A very large number of pharmacists in' 

 every state in the Union have given 

 much valuable time and have written 

 many letters in behalf of this important 

 work, and every one of them will real- 

 ize with a thrill that feeling of work 

 well done, when they learn that House 

 Bill No. 12766 has passed both the House 

 and Senate and has been signed by the 

 President and that pharmacists in the 

 three branches of the United States Gov- 

 ernment Service, the Army, Navy and 

 Public Health Service, who barely out- 

 ranked the negro cook in 1894 when they 

 began this work, are now warrant of- 

 ficers in the Army and Public Health 

 Service and commissioned officers in the 

 Navy. This bill is now a law. It was 

 submitted to Congress by Representa- 

 tive James Hay of Virginia, Chairman 

 of the House Committee on Military 

 Affairs and to the Senate by Senator 

 George E. Chamberlain of Oregon, 

 Chairman of the Senate Committee on 

 Military Affairs. The act incorporates 



what we asked in the Hughes-Bacon Bill 

 and which was pushed so energetically 

 by us all at the last session of Congress. 

 Our work has ripened into excellent re- 

 sults. 



This Act changes the name of "Hos- 

 pital Corps" into that of the "Medical 

 Corps of the United States Army." 

 There will be higher rank and better pay. 

 There will be two additional higher 

 grades and rank above the present one 

 of Sergeants First Class. While the act, 

 does not give commission to the pharma- 

 cists of the army, it does give to the 

 highest grade practically the rank of 

 warrant officers, which is next to that of 

 commissions. 



The act contains the following provi- 

 sions: 



I St. The Hospital Corps will become 

 a part of the Medical Department. 



2nd. There will be a new rank of 

 "Master Hospital Sergeants" with $75.00 

 a month and the allowances for food and 

 clothes of Master Engineers, Senior 

 Grade. They shall be appointed by the 

 Secretary of War after a satisfactory 

 examination in PHARMACY by a board 

 of one or more medical officers under 

 regulations prescribed by the Secretary 

 of War, and with at least one year's 

 competent service as a Sergeant First 

 Class, and no person shall be designated 

 for such examination except by authority 

 of the Surgeon General. 



