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examples  of  pharmacists  who  can  eminently  qualify  or  of  those 
who  in  the  past  have  measured  up  to  this  definition.  But  may  we 
not  say  to  ourselves,  and  repeat  frequently,  that  we  should  have  a 
higher  professional  appreciation  of  pharmacy,  of  all  who  serve 
devotedly  and  a  greater  reverence  for  those  whose  work  has  given 
us  a  profession. 
A  few  weeks  ago  a  visitor  from  this  section  of  the  country  was 
one  of  the  speakers  at  a  banquet  in  San  Antonio,  Texas ;  it  was 
probably  expected  of  him  that  he  should  dwell  upon  another  topic, 
for  in  his  introductory  remarks,  he  said : 
"  I  am  going  to  take  a  woman's  privilege  and  change  my  mind.  The 
thing  which  brought  me  to  Texas  is  dear  to  my  heart,  but  there  is  another 
thing  which  is  far,  far  dearer  to  it.  I  am  coming  to  you.  loyal  citizens  of 
Texas,  with  an  appeal  upon  my  lips.  I  am  going  to  beg  your  indulgence 
and  3'our  interest  in  behalf  of  a  friend  who  needs  more  friendships.  This 
one  has  many  sons  and  daughters ;  he  has  reared  them  to  competence  and 
great  estate,  but  they  have  not  always  remembered  this.  My  friend  is  the 
United  States,  my  country',  your  country,  our  country.  And  to-night  for  a 
little  time  I  am  going  to  ask  you  to  forget  San  Antonio,  Bexar  County,  and 
Texas  and  give  your  loving  thought  to  the  United  States  which  stands  for 
and  behind  each  of  them." 
The  speaker  then  referred  briefly  to  community  pride,  expressed 
in  a  more  distinctly  commercial  form  which  leads  to  campaigns  of 
preferential  movements.  If  these  are  held  within  rational  bounds 
the  promotion  is  commendable  and  valuable,  but  when  it  funda- 
mentally lacks  economic  soundness,  it  defeats  the  purpose, — also 
when  the  interest  of  the  community  is  the  sole  thought  of  the 
citizenship  then  the  national  spirit  suffers,  and  this  is  essential  in 
our  present  crisis. 
It  seems  to  me  that  these  thoughts  can  be  made  more  or  less 
applicable  to  pharmacy  and  also  to  association  interest.  You  will 
replace  the  words  of  the  speaker  "the  friend  who  needs  more 
friendships "  by  pharmacy  and  the  American  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation, and  I  will  in  a  limited  way  endeavor  to  make  use  of  them. 
If  the  remarks  are  not  applicable  to  you,  they  may  have  application 
elsewhere  and  are  not  altogether  unworthy  of  attention. 
Practically,  ever  since  there  have  been  places  for  dispensing 
medicines  and  selling  drugs  other  articles  have  formed  part  of  the 
stock  of  the  apothecary,  for  reasons  that  require  no  explanation. 
We  are  accustomed  to  speak  of  two  divisions  in  the  drug  business, 
the  commercial  and  the  professional.    The  stocks  of  drug  stores 
