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April,  1918. 
Editorial. 
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states  no  such  legal  enactment  has  as  yet  been  considered  and  in 
some  of  the  states  that  are  supporting  state  universities  with  phar- 
macy departments,  the  door  to  the  practice  of  pharmacy  has  been 
left  wide  open  through  its  pharmacy  law,  by  permitting  the  registra- 
tion of  pharmacists  without  any  collegiate  education. 
Before  pharmacy  can  claim  the  general  recognition  as  a  pro- 
fession that  is  so  greatly  desired,  its  followers  must  be  profession- 
ally educated  and  the  nation-wide  adoption  of  a  requirement  that 
every  licensed  pharmacist  must  be  a  graduate  of  a  school  of  phar- 
macy is  an  initial  step  that  is  essential  for  the  professional  eleva- 
tion of  pharmacy.  The  stigma  of  three  fourths  of  our  states  with- 
out such  prerequisite  laws  must  be  wiped  out. 
This  duty  will  undoubtedly  devolve  upon  pharmacists  them- 
selves and  should  claim  the  immediate  and  persistent  attention  of 
every  thoughtful  person  associated  with  the  calling  either  as  a 
teacher,  writer,  or  practical  druggist.  Something  more  than  resolu- 
tions is  needed.  A  year  of  active,  energetic  effort  on  this  movement 
will  accomplish  more  for  the  real  benefit  of  pharmacy  than  a  cen- 
tury spent  in  resoluting.  This  is  an  opportunity  that  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  has  had  for  years  of  performing  a 
really  great  service  in  the  line  of  its  professed  work  in  behalf  of  the 
betterment  of  pharmacy  and  a  duty  that  it  should  forthwith  enter 
upon  with  an  active  committee  of  its  most  capable  members.  When 
the  educational  qualifications  of  pharmacists  are  once  established, 
then  the  objections  in  official  and  medical  circles  to  the  recognition 
of  pharmacists  as  professional  gentlemen  must  fall  and  many  of  the 
reforms  that  we  are  so  strenuously  advocating,  such  as  the  establish- 
ing of  a  pharmaceutical  corps  in  the  Army  and  Navy,  will  be  more 
readily  attained.  As  pharmacists  it  behooves  us  to  appreciate  fully 
the  importance  of  nation-wide  prerequisite  legislation  for  pharmacy. 
G.  M.  B. 
Consistent  Conservation  of  Drugs. 
From  the  very  beginning  of  the  war,  in  the  summer  of  1914,  the 
drug  and  chemical  markets  have  been  in  an  unsettled  condition  and, 
at  times,  the  conditions  regarding  certain  important  commodities  in- 
cluded in  these  classifications  could  be  termed  as  chaotic.  The  clos- 
ing of  the  usual  sources  of  supply,  the  demands  of  foreign  countries 
