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The  N.A.R.D.  was  founded  to  safeguard  and  to  advance,  in  every 
honorable  way,  the  welfare  of  the  retail  druggist.  Every  druggist 
who  is  imbued  with  the  spirit  of  craft  kinship,  and  realizes  the*  har- 
monizing power  of  co-operation,  should  be  a  member  of  this  organi- 
zation. 
Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington,  in  commenting  on  the  paper  by  Mr. 
Potts,  said  that  at  the  present  time  retail  druggists  are  virtually 
compelled  to  give  much  of  their  attention  to  the  immediate  need 
for  securing  bread  and  butter,  and  they  have  little  or  no  time  or 
inclination  for  following  up  the  professional  side  of  their  calling. 
He  believes  that  the  enactment  of  pure  food  and  drug  laws,  and 
the  accompanying  acceptance  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  and  of  the 
National  Formulary  as  legal  standards,  will  serve  to  arouse  both  the 
physician  as  well  as  the  pharmacist  to  an  appreciation  of  the  oppor- 
tunities now  before  them,  and  will  serve  to  elevate  the  retail  drug- 
gist to  a  much  higher  plane. 
Prof.  Henry  Kraemer  read  a  paper  on :  "  The  Reorganization  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,"  in  which  he  expressed 
himself  as  being  in  favor  of  the  form  of  organization  that  has  been 
adopted  by  the  American  Medical  Association,  with  the  local 
society  as  the  unit  in  the  general  scheme  of  organization. 
He  believes  that  pharmacists,  collectively  or  individually,  can  no 
longer  lose  sight  of  the  scientific  side  of  their  calling.  The 
methods  as  well  as  the  work  of  the  retail  druggist  will,  in  time,  be 
open  to  the  scrutiny  of  government  officials,  and  it  will  not  be  long 
before  the  faults  and  the  shortcomings  to  be  found,in  pharmacy  will 
be  exposed  and  discussed. 
Professor  Kraemer  believes  that  some  provision  should  be  made 
for  post-graduate  work  by  retail  druggists  who  are  interested  in  the 
science  of  .  their  calling.  He  thinks  that  this  work  can  best  be  intro- 
duced in  connection  with  the  meetings  of  the  existing  pharma- 
ceutical associations,  and  for  this  purpose  he  is  in  favor  of  eliminat- 
ing all  of  the  regular  business  from  the  general  sessions. 
The  several  communications  were  further  discussed  by  Messrs. 
Potts,  Eppstein,  Cliffe,  Professor  Remington  and  Professor  Stanislaus. 
The  latter  presented  a  series  of  resolutions,  which  were  duly 
seconded,  and,  after  some  additional  discussion,  slightly  amended 
and  finally  adopted  as  the  expression  of  the  members  present,  for 
the  guidance  of  the  executive  committee  for  the  coming  year. 
