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retary  should  be  made  an  officer  of  the  Association,  and  the  order 
of  business  prescribed  by  the  constitution  should  be  changed. 
In  closing  his  address,  the  President  recommended  the  Associa- 
tion to  sever  its  connection  with  the  National  Association  of  Retail 
Druggists.  The  experiences  of  the  past  year  had  not  verified  the 
predictions  made  by  the  national  organization.  "The  N.A.R.D. 
gives  nothing  but  promises,"  he  said.  "  It  is  the  retailer  who  is 
called  upon  to  make  all  of  trie  sacrifices,  while  the  jobber  gets  all 
the  profits  and  the  manufacturer  risks  but  little."  Then,  too,  he 
thought  the  membership  of  the  Association  in  the  N.A.R.D.  was 
unconstitutional. 
The  address  was  referred  to  a  committee  consisting  of  Messrs. 
Holzhauer,  Bye  and  Merritt. 
Tne  Secretary  and  Treasurer  then  read  their  annual  reports,  show- 
ing a  net  membership  of  364,  with  a  cash  balance  on  hand  of 
$2,411.46.  Henry  A.  Jorden,  of  Bridgeton,  read  his  report  as  Sec- 
retary of  the  New  Jersey  Board  of  Pharmacy.  The  board  held 
fifteen  meetings  during  the  year,  and  he  was  glad  to  report  that  ap- 
plicants taking  the  examination  showed  better  preparation  for  the 
work  than  ever  before.  Oat  of  107  who  had  taken  the  examination, 
53  were  college  graduates.  There  were  1,539  registered  pharma- 
cists and  97  assistant  pharmacists  in  the  State. 
After  a  Nominating  Committee  was  appointed,  the  credentials  of 
delegates  from  other  pharmaceutical  organizations  were  read.  A 
motion  to  receive  them  and  to  grant  the  delegates  the  privilege  of 
the  floor  was  followed  by  a  sharp  discussion  over  the  latter  clause 
of  the  motion,  and  the  "  privileges  of  the  floor"  were  not  granted. 
It  was  a  cold  reception  for  the  visiting  delegates,  and  when  they 
were  asked  if  any  of  them  had  anything  to  say  and  the  Association 
would  listen  to  them,  not  one  responded.  Dr.  Brundage,  a  delegate 
from  Brooklyn,  and  also  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Association, 
protested  against  this  action,  but  his  protest  did  no  good.  The  op- 
ponents to  granting  the  privileges  of  the  floor  to  visiting  delegates 
did  not  want  the  latter,  among  whom  was  Prof.  W.  C.  Anderson, 
Vice-President  of  the  N.A.R.D.,  to  debate  the  plan  of  the  national 
organization. 
Then  followed  a  report  from  the  delegate  to  the  meeting  of  the 
N.A.R.D.,  J.  C.  Gallagher,  of  Jersey  City.  Here  the  fight  over  the 
N.A.R.D.  began  again,  the  opposition  being  led  by  Charles  Holz- 
