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Editorial. 
/  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
<-     January,  1917. 
A 
Total 
number 
Pharm. 
B 
Total 
number 
voting 
C 
Per 
cent. 
of  A 
voting 
D 
Voting 
yes 
E 
Voting 
no 
F 
Per 
cent, 
of  A 
voting 
yes 
G 
Per 
cent, 
of  A 
voting 
no 
H 
Per 
cent. 
of  B 
voting 
yes 
Minn.  Regis.  Pharm.  act. 
engaged  in  Minneapolis 
375 
245 
65.3 
188 
57  , 
50.1  + 
15.2 
76.7  + 
Minn.  Regis.  Pharm.  act. 
engaged  in  St.  Paul. ..  . 
218 
131 
60.0  + 
105 
26 
48.I  + 
II.9  + 
80.1  + 
Minn.  Regis.  Pharm.  act. 
engaged  in  Duluth  .... 
66 
36 
54-5 
29 
7 
43-9  + 
10.5  + 
80.5  + 
Minn.  Regis.  Pharm.  act. 
engaged   outside  of 
881 
652 
74-0  + 
496 
156 
56.3 
17.7 
77.  - 
Total  number  of  Minn. 
Regis.  Pharm.  act.  en- 
gaged in  the  State  
1. 540 
1,059 
69. 
814 
245 
53- 
15.9 
77- 
Note: —  7  votes  non-committal  were  received. 
7  ballots  were  sent  in  marked  "  yes  "  but  without  signature. 
1  ballot  was  sent  in  marked  "  no  "  but  without  signature. 
12  ballots,  all  marked  "  yes,"  were  received  from  M.  S.  Ph.  A. 
members  outside  of  Minnesota. 
145  ballots  marked  "yes"  and  10  marked  "no"  were  received  after 
the  above  table  was  compiled. 
rendering  pharmacological  service  to  the  public.  The  social  and 
moral  welfare  of  our  communities  is  involved,  for  pharmacists  by 
law  hold  the  responsible  duty  of  restricting  to  proper  and  legitimate 
uses  narcotic  and  poisonous  drugs. 
Educational  preparedness  has  brought  forth  success  and  pros- 
perity in  many  fields  of  endeavor  and  it  will  do  for  pharmacy  what 
it  has  done  for  other  occupations.  Of  all  the  states  in  the  Union, 
Minnesota  stands  to-day  unexcelled  in  point  of  equipment  and  facili- 
ties for  imparting  pharmaceutical  instruction.  It  is,  therefore,  not 
surprising  that  the  pharmacists  of  the  state  have  grasped  the  oppor- 
tunity afforded  them  to  secure  that  which  will  be  of  benefit  to 
pharmacy  and  the  public. 
The  professional  drug  business  is  constantly  being  demoralized 
by  commercial  influences,  and  not  the  least  among  these  is  the  medi- 
cine peddler.  These  vendors  with  little  knowledge  of  drugs  and 
medicines  are  practicing  pharmacy,  and  in  some  instances,  medicine. 
State  laws  which  to  a  degree  restrict  the  practice  of  these  profes- 
sions to  those  best  fitted  by  educational  qualifications  are  therefore 
not  infrequently  nullified.  Legislative  bodies  should  increase  the 
educational  qualifications  requested  by  pharmacists  and  by  so  doing 
provide  professional  pharmacists  for  the  future  who  would  unques- 
