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Editorial. 
Am  jour.  Pharm. 
April,  19 18. 
"pigeon-holed"  the  bill  in  committee.  In  1916,  the  Committee  on 
Legislation  of  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  had  the  pre- 
requisite amendment  introduced  first  in  the  Senate  and  were  suc- 
cessful in  passing  the  bill  almost  unanimously  through  both  houses, 
but  their  victory  became  a  defeat  when  the  Governor  withheld  his 
approval  because  it  deviated  from  a  policy  that  he  had  announced ; 
one  of  the  principal  reasons  he  assigned  was  the  provision  for  a 
per  diem  of  $10.00  to  each  member  of  the  board  for  services  per- 
formed for  the  board. 
This  year,  the  committee  reframed  the  bill  so  that  it  covered 
but  little  more  than  the  desired  qualifications  for  the  personnel  of 
the  Board  of  Pharmacy  and  the  educational  requirements  for  ap- 
plicants for  registration  as  pharmacists  or  as  assistant  pharmacists. 
The  bill  was  favorably  acted,  on  by  the  legislature  and  was  promptly 
signed  by  the  Governor.  The  Act  provides  that  every  person  apply- 
ing for  registration  as  a  pharmacist  "  shall  have  been  duly  graduated 
from  a  school  of  pharmacy  complying  with  the  rules  and  regula- 
tions of  '  The  Board  of  Pharmacy  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey,' 
and  shall  present  to  the  board  a  certificate  from  the  Commissioner 
of  Education  of  this  State  showing  that  such  applicant,  before  enter- 
ing the  school  of  pharmacy,  had  obtained  an  education  equivalent 
to  the  standard  established  by  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  of  the  State 
of  New  Jersey."  Thus  leaving  to  the  discretion  of  the  board,  the 
standard  of  preliminary  education  to  be  required  and  such  advance- 
ment thereof  as,  from  time  to  time,  they  deem  wise. 
This  review  of  the  campaign  of  education  that  was  necessary  to 
secure  needed  legislation  for  the  advancement  of  professional 
pharmacy  in  a  state  that  was  among  the  first  to  enact  a  pharmacy 
practice  act,  is  given  for  the  purpose  of  illustrating  the  necessity 
for  persistence  in  the  efforts  of  pharmacists  in  such  matters.  It 
further  demonstrates  the  proverbial  slowness  of  reforms.  At  least 
a  quarter  of  a  century  has  passed  since  the  leaders  in  pharmaceutical 
education  commenced  their  agitation  that  students  in  pharmacy 
should  be  required  to  have  sufficient  preliminary  education  to  grasp 
the  college  studies  and  that  a  collegiate  education  in  the  sciences  as- 
sociated with  the  practice  of  the  art  of  the  apothecary  should  be 
required  by  the  law  of  each  state.  After  the  lapse  of  all  of  these 
years,  we  can  only  state  that,  with  the  accessions  of  this  year,  eleven 
or  twelve  states  have  adopted  laws  to  that  effect.    In  most  of  the 
