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THE  PENNSYLVANIA  PHARMACEUTICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
By  Edgar  F.  Heffner,  Secretary. 
It  affords  me  a  great  deal  of  pleasure  to  have  the  honor  of 
talking  on  the  work  and  objects  of  our  Association  in  this  College, 
which  has  contributed  more  than  any  other  institution  toward  the 
success  of  our  state  organization  by  furnishing  many  of  the  active 
workers,  who  have  used  the  knowledge  and  training  received  here 
to  aid  in  improving  drug  conditions,  and  to  place  the  Pennsylvania 
Pharmaceutical  Association  in  first  place  in  the  ranks  of  the  state 
organizations. 
The  efficiency  of  our  organization  and  the  high  character  of  the 
original  material  secured  each  year  by  our  efficient  chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Papers  and  Queries,  Professor  LaWall,  have  time 
and  time  again  brought-  forth  strong  commendations  from  the  Phar- 
maceutical Press,  which  should  be  very  gratifying  to  our  members. 
In  point  of  actual  dues-paying  membership  the  Pennsylvania 
Association  also  leads,  as  we  have  nearly  1000  members  who  are  in 
good  standing,  but  in  the  number  attending  the  meetings  each  year 
we  are  lamentably  low,  and  are  being  put  to  shame  by  associations 
having  half  our  membership.  It  is  a  crying  shame  that  the  work  of 
our  Association  is  only  appreciated  by  one  out  of  ten  members  to  the 
point  of  his  attending  the  meetings,  and  many  think  that  the  policy 
of  holding  the  meetings  at  summer  resorts  each  year  for  the  past  ten 
years  is  to  blame  and  has  been  responsible  for  the  low  attendance. 
So  I  am  here  to-day  as  an  advance  guard  of  an  "  On  to  Phila- 
delphia "  movement  for  191 1,  and  to  endeavor  to  enlist  your  aid  in 
making  this  year's  meeting  the  largest  and  best  meeting  we  have 
yet  held. 
Measures  of  vital  importance  to  every  retail  druggist  will  be 
before  our  meeting,  and  in  order  that  these  measures  may  most 
nearly  represent  the  sentiment  of  the  best  of  our  Association  it  is 
very  essential  that  you  attend  the  meeting  and  get  as  many  of  your 
friends  and  neighbors  to  go  as  you  can. 
It  would  be  quite  a  relief  to  the  officers  and  committee-men 
to  have  the  "  Anvil  Chorus,"  who  as  a  rule  do  not  attend  the  meet- 
ings, make  a  change  and  come  to  our  meeting  this  year.  The 
