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Am.  .lour.  PharnK 
July,  1900. 
the  Association  were  teachers.  A  year  ago,  the  President  and 
the  Chairman  on  Pharmaceutical  Education  and  Legislation  were 
manufacturing  pharmacists ;  the  Chairman  of  the  Commercial  Sec- 
tion was  a  retail  pharmacist,  and  the  Scientific  Section  only  was 
represented  by  a  teacher. 
It  was  the  President  at  the  last  meeting  of  the  Association  whc* 
said:  "  The  interests  of  the  wholesaler,  the  manufacturer,  dispenser 
and  teacher  are  in  common;"  and  it  was  the  chairman  of  the 
Commercial  Section  who  said  u  unless  there  be  a  commercial  side 
to  pharmacy,  the  professors  will  soon  be  without  students  to  in- 
struct." 
Surely  these  are  not  merely  sentiments,  for  when  it  has  come  to 
the  election  of  officers  it  has  always  been  the  desire  of  the  members 
of  the  Association  to  share  honors  and  power  with  every  represen- 
tative of  legitimate  modern  pharmacy.  In  former  years  the  retail 
pharmacist  controlled  everything,  but,  as  was  pointed  out  in  a  recent 
editorial  in  this  Journal,  times  have  changed,  and  in  this  age  of  spe- 
cialization it  is  not  possible  for  any  one  man  to  be  at  the  same  time 
wholesaler,  manufacturer,  dispenser  and  teacher.  Every  one  must 
recognize  from  the  very  nature  of  the  case  that  these  different 
divisions  of  pharmacy  furnish  distinct  lines  of  work.  Yet  it  will 
be  found  that  ultimately  their  interests  are  in  common,  and  hence 
should  be  represented  by  some  one  organization  as  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association.  No  one  class  of  workers  can  fail  ulti- 
mately to  be  other  than  benefited  by  the  industry  of  another  class.  If 
the  scientific  section  seems  to  be  crowding  out  the  retail  pharmacist,, 
then  it  is  his  place  to  see  that  there  is  some  place  in  the  organization 
for  him  to  discuss  the  problems  of  peculiar  interest  to  him.  In 
other  words,  if  the  members  of  any  one  section  exhibit  an  unusual 
degree  of  activity,  then  this  should  be  a  stimulus  to  the  workers  in 
other  sections  rather  than  a  hindrance  to  their  efforts. 
Furthermore,  if  a  section  is  derelict  in  its  duties  or  fails  in  a 
measure  in  fulfilling  all  the  needs  for  which  it  was,  to  a  certain 
extent,  created,  we  need  not  wonder  even  if  a  rival  association 
be  organized.  President  Dohme  said  in  his  address  last  year  to 
the  A.Ph.A.,  in  regard  to  the  work  of  the  National  Association 
of  Retail  Druggists  :  "  The  very  good  work  the  N.  A.R.D.  has  accom- 
plished could,  in  all  probability,  have  been  accomplished  as  effectu- 
ally by  the  A.Ph.A.,  provided  the  right  men  had  been  found  to  take 
