342  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association {Am'jJ^yr\giorm' 
chances  are  that  they  would  appreciate  more  the  spirit  that  enters 
into  our  work,  and  become  boosters  instead  of  knockers. 
Mr.  Apple's  paper  in  our  Proceedings  for  last  year  impressed 
me  greatly  as  being  in  part  a  solution  of  our  difficulty  in  getting 
members  to  attend.  In  his  paper  . he  strongly  urged  the  advisability 
of  meeting  next  year  at  Philadelphia. 
It  is  a  fact  that  nearly  400  of  our  members  are  located  in  this 
city  and  probably  200  more  within  a  convenient  distance,  over  half  of 
whom  would  attend  the  meetings.  More  of  our  inland  members 
would  attend  a  meeting  here  than  at  a  summer  resort,  as  it  would 
give  them  a  chance  to  purchase  stock,  and  besides  a  large  city  at 
any  time  of  the  year  appeals  more  to  us  "  country  fellows  "  and  our 
wives.  So  for  the  good  of  the  cause  I  ask  you  to  attend  this  year's 
meeting  and  boom  Philadelphia  as  a  meeting  place  for  191 1. 
Our  Executive  Committee  have  during  the  past  week  sent  out  a 
circular  letter  to  each  retail  druggist  in  the  State  setting  forth 
strongly  the  advantage  and  reasons  why  they  should  become 
members. 
This  work  has  been  supplemented  by  a  letter  to  each  member 
sent  out  by  Mr.  William  E.  Lee,  chairman  of  the  Membership  Com- 
mittee, asking  each  one  to  do  his  share  toward  securing  the  applica- 
tions of  those  they  know  who  are  not  now  members.  These  appeals 
should  certainly  produce  good  results  and  will  if  you  make  a  personal 
application  of  them  and  get  busy. 
Practically  all  of  the  laws  regulating  pharmacy  in  this  State 
have  been  secured  by  or  with  the  direction  and  assistance  of  our 
Association  and  are  mile  posts  on  the  road  of  our  progress  toward 
our  ultimate  goal,  "  The  restriction  of  the  dispensing  and  sale  of 
medicine  to  regularly  educated  Druggists  and  Pharmacists." 
As  a  further  step  in  that  direction  a  draft  of  a  law  modelled  after 
the  New  York  and  Ohio  laws  will  be  submitted  to  our  Legislative 
Committee  for  consideration  and  approval  in  time  to  be  presented 
to  this  year's  meeting. 
There  is  a  considerable  demand  in  the  interior  of  our  State  for 
a  law  restricting  the  sale  of  medicines  by  grocers  and  peddlers.  The 
unjust  competition  of  these  unqualified  persons  is  an  injustice  to  the 
pharmacist,  who  has  spent  at  least  four  years  to  qualify  himself  and 
who  is  held  to  strict  account  for  what  he  sells,  while  these  people 
sell  poisons  and  dangerous  drugs  with  impunity  and  no  regard  for 
the  law. 
