478  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  \  AlV;  fJ°ur-  *}™m- 
inability  to  be  present  and  expressing  his  hearty  wishes  for  a 
successful  meeting. 
Professor  Oldberg,  first  Vice-president  was  called  to  the  chair 
and  the  President  proceeded  to  read  his  address  which  was  an 
able  and  forceful  essay  devoted  to  the  consideration  of  the  follow- 
ing subjects:  reorganization,  membership,  local  branches;  member- 
ship in  proportion  to  population ;  status  of  pharmacists ;  prereq- 
uisite laws ;  profession,  trade,  ethics ;  commercial  pharmacy ;  patent 
medicines  and  fads;  pharmacists  and  physicians;  manufacturing 
pharmacists ;  pharmacists  in  the  government  service ;  legislation 
affecting  pharmacists;  the  Bulletin;  and  the  endowment  fund. 
In  conclusion  President  Searby  said: 
"  The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  has  reason  to  cele- 
brate its  fifty-sixth  anniversary  in  a  cheery  mood,  because  it  has 
made  substantial  advances  during  the  past  year.  Its  membership 
roll  is  higher  than  ever  before,  and  gives  promise  of  further  growth. 
Its  activities  have  been  greater,  benefiting  a  larger  number,  as  its 
local  branches  have  brought  the  pharmacists  of  new  localities  more 
immediately  within  the  sphere  of  its  influence.  This  beneficent 
work  is  in  its  infancy,  for  the  number  of  these  branches  is  sure  to 
increase.  The  cause  of  pharmacy  is  to  be  congratulated  in  the  fact 
that  the  desire  to  obtain  better  drugs  and  pharmaceuticals  is  well- 
nigh  universal  in  this  great  land,  and  that  the  Pure  Drug  Laws, 
now  so  numerous,  are  but  the  enactment  into  legal  statutes  of  the 
long-cherished  desire  that  gave  birth  to  this  Association.  Again, 
the  success  of  the  "  get  together  "  movement  wherever  it  has  been 
seriously  tried,  encourages  the  belief  that  pharmacists  and  physicians 
have  passed  their  apogee,  and  that  the  perigee  of  mutual  co-operation 
for  mutual  good  is  coming,  let  us  hope,  with  a  comet-like  swiftness. 
And  while  physicians  are  breaking  away  from  prescribing  proprie- 
taries, druggists  are  also  manifesting  a  more  healthy  sentiment  on 
the  subject  of  patent  medicines.  One  movement  helps  the  other. 
It  is  true  that  in  certain  parts  of  the  West  and  Middle  West  some 
druggists  do  still  permit  displays  of  nostrums  in  their  store  windows 
thereby  giving  tacit  endorsement  to  questionable  remedies.  Yet 
the  tendency  is  to  discourage  their  sale  and  to  encourage  sane  medi- 
cation under  medical  advice.  Shorter  hours  of  business  in  drug- 
stores, and  especially  on  Sundays,  are  being  adopted  in  many  towns, 
and  the  movement  will  surely  grow.    These  steps  towards  ethical 
