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afford  relief  to  the  wounded,  save  and  conserve  the  lives  in  count- 
less homes  and  on  the  fields  of  battle.  Our  profession  must  live 
in  the  reverence  we  have  for  our  precedents,  in  the  work  they  made 
possible  for  us  to  do,  because  of  it,  and  our  own  endeavors.  A  pro- 
fession without  ideals  is  dead,  is  useless. 
We  may  point  with  pride  to  past  records  of  pharmacy,  but  we 
ourselves  must  sustain  its  reputation,  continue  to  improve  it  and 
make  it  increasingly  valuable  to  the  world.  The  votaries  are  the 
makers  of  the  business  they  are  engaged  in,  and  in  turn  the  char- 
acter of  it  tells  who  and  what  they  are. 
Repeating  my  own  words  of  a  former  address,  associated  service 
profits  the  individual  who  lends  a  helping  hand  in  the  promotion  of 
the  common  interests  of  pharmacy  more  than  if  he  had  directed  his 
activities  without  concerning  himself  with  the  interests  of  others, 
and  this  is  relatively  true  as  between  associations.  It  should  be  the 
spirit  of  those  engaged  in  the  drug  business  whether  they  are  most 
concerned  in  commercial  lines  or  in  professional  pharmacy  and 
should  be  the  inspiration  upon  which  we  shall  be  lifted  step  by  step 
to  greater,  broader  and  more  hopeful  things  while  laboring  for  our 
own  interests,  those  of  pharmacy  and  the  welfare  of  human  kind. 
Applying  the^same  thought  to  cooperation  among  associations,  such 
endeavor,  if  properly  directed,  should  produce  enhanced  relative 
value,  comparable  to  work  of  members  within  an  association — the 
"  work  together  proposition  "  is  an  essential  factor  for  greatest  suc- 
cess. We  are  generally  agreed  that  the  common  interest  of  an  as- 
sociation should  be  the  interest  of  the  individual  member:  so  the 
interest  of  different  associations  having  the  same  or  closely  related 
objects  in  common  can  be  directed  by  harmonious  cooperation  for 
profit  of  each  association  and  every  individual  is  thereby  benefited. 
It  is  this  thought  I  want  to  impress,  that  the  individual  effort  is 
enhanced  by  association  work,  so  also  "  the  work  together "  of  as- 
sociations has  an  increased  relative  value.  The  various  drug  asso- 
ciations should  provide  a  plan  linking  them  to  the  alma  mater  of  as- 
sociations, the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  thereby 
greater  work  can  be  accomplished  for  pharmacy,  the  drug  business 
in  general  and  in  the  interests  of  those  whom  we  serve.  Such 
organization  will  afford  greater  opportunity  for  cooperation  of  the 
allied  interests,  to  shape  and  regulate  the  drug  business  in  general 
