396  American  PJiarmacentical  Association.      { Am- Jour-  pl3arDQ- 
August,  1907. 
THE  READJUSTMENT  OF  THE  AMERICAN  PHARMA- 
CEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. 
M.  I.  Wilbert  in  a  letter  says:  The  proposal  for  a  readjustment 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  as  outlined  by  Mr. 
Hynson,  in  this  Journal  for  June,  1907,  has  much  to  commend  it, 
and  is  certainly  deserving  of  careful  study  on  the  part  of  every 
member  of  the  Association. 
It  is  perhaps  needless  to  reiterate  at  this  time  that,  if  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association  is  to  continue  to  progress,  and  to 
appeal  to  any  appreciable  number  of  individuals  interested  in  the 
various  branches  of  pharmacy,  the  plan  of  organization  and  the 
method  of  conducting  the  business  of  the  Association  must  be 
materially  changed. 
The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  should  continue  to  be, 
as  it  has  been  in  the  past,  the  one  representative  organization  of  the 
profession,  or,  perhaps  better,  the  science  of  pharmacy  in  America. 
At  no  time  in  the  history  of  our  country  has  there  been  such  an 
evident  need  for  such  an  association  as  just  now,  and  at  no  time 
have  the  prospects  for  a  stronger  or  a  more  representative  national 
organization  been  more  in  evidence  than  at  the  present  time,  with 
all  of  the  various  factors  that  are  clearing  the  way  for  the  practice 
of  pharmacy,  divested  of  its  numerous  more  or  less  objectionable 
side  lines,  to  divert  interest  and  attention  from  the  main  object  of 
our  being  pharmacists. 
To  provide  for  a  truly  representative  organization,  I  believe  that 
the  general  plan  of  organization  that  has  been  adopted  by  the 
American  Medical  Association  should  be  borne  in  mind.  For  those 
not  familiar  with  this  plan  I  would  suggest  that  they  send  and 
secure  a  copy  of  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws  of  the  American 
Medical  Association. 
For  present  conditions,  in  pharmacy,  a  more  centralized  form  of 
organization  than  that  of  the  American  Medical  Association  should 
be  adopted,  with  a  view  of  developing  the  reversed  order  at  some 
future  time. 
I  would  not  be  in  favor  of  deleting  any  portion  of  the  present 
constitution,  and  the  only  changes  that  appear  to  me  to  be  neces- 
sary would  be  to  provide  for  the  creation  of  a  council,  or  delegate 
body,  to  conduct  all  of  the  business  of  the  Association,  and  a  Board 
