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Wholesale  Druggists'  Association  and  the  Proprietors'  Association, 
and  said  that  an  attempt  was  made  to  have  a  law  drafted  which 
would  require  both  physicians  and  retail  druggists  to  use  labels 
giving  details  as  to  the  composition  of  medicines  prescribed  and  dis- 
pensed. He  then  remarked  that  retail  druggists  are  not  opposed  to 
legislation  which  is  fair,  but  that  they  are  not  in  favor  of  hasty  legis- 
lation, which,  as  proposed  in  some  instances,  would  drive  retail  drug- 
gists out  of  business. 
A  paper  on  "  Sunday  Closing  :  A  Means  of  Elevating  Pharmacy," 
by  Clarence  H.  Campbell,  a  local  druggist,  was  read  in  the  absence 
of  the  author  by  George  B.  Weidemann,  P.D.  The  paper  contained 
the  statement  that  at  the  recent  conventions  of  the  National  Asso- 
ciation of  Retail  Druggists  held  in  St.  Louis  and  Atlanta,  resolutions 
were  unanimously  adopted  favoring  Sunday  closing,  and  that  help- 
ful suggestions  had  been  made  as  to  the  ways  and  means  of  bring- 
ing about  this  end.  The  writer  was  of  the  opinion  that  the  long 
hours  without  proportionate  compensation  has  an  influence  in  keep- 
ing young  men  from  taking  up  pharmacy  in  the  first  place,  or  of 
pursuing  it  after  qualifying  for  the  work.  Mr.  Campbell  also  con- 
sidered some  of  the  arguments  that  have  already  been  advanced  in 
some  of  the  previous  issues  of  this  Journal  as  to  the  necessity  of 
reasonable  rest  and  recreation  in  broadening  the  horizon  of  the 
pharmacist. 
Mr.  Thomas  H.  Potts  also  presented  a  communication  on  the  sub- 
ject of  Sunday  closing  and  shorter  hours.  After  considering  the 
need  of  a  more  liberal  spirit  on  the  part  of  pharmacists  and  the 
necessity  for  an  improvement  in  the  number  of  hours  that  the  phar- 
macist is  on  duty,  Mr.  Potts  said  that  he  fully  admitted  that  the 
public  must  be  taken  into  consideration,  but  maintained  that  they 
can  be  educated,  and  very  readily,  to  acquiesce  in  this  movement  if 
concerted  action  be  taken  by  druggists. 
Mr.  Potts  further  remarked  that  in  his  opinion  there  is  only  one 
possible  plan  to  adopt  and  that  is  to  agitate  this  question  on  every 
favorable  opportunity.  He  said  that  since  the  agitation  begun  last 
fall  by  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  a  great  many  retailers 
have  closed  their  stores  on  Sunday  afternoons,  and  in  conversation 
with  some  of  them  he  was  informed  that  they  like  the  plan  so  well 
that  they  could  not  be  induced  to  return  to  the  old  conditions. 
R.  W.  Cuthbert,  chairman  of  the  committee  appointed  by  the 
