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PAPER  ECONOMY 
The  Paper  Economy  Section  of  the  War  Industries  Board  has 
requested  that  retail  merchants  cooperate  with  the  board  in  their 
program  advocating  economy  in  wrapping  paper.  With  that  end  in 
view  the  week  of  November  11  to  16  was  designated  by  the  board 
as  Paper  Economy  Display  Week.  The  merchants  are  requested 
to  cease  the  wrapping  of  trade  packages  and  to  encourage  the  use 
of  the  market  basket  so  as  to  save  wrapping  paper  and  twine. 
There  is  probably  no  other  vocation  where  the  niceties  of  the 
business  call  for  the  careful  wrapping  of  every  package,  and  such 
has  been  the  prevailing  custom  in  our  best  pharmacies.  There  are 
many  reasons  why  prescriptions  and  packages  of  medicine,  espe- 
cially those  containing  toxic  ingredients,  should  be  carefully 
wrapped.  On  the  other  hand,  there  is  no  question  but  that  the  drug 
trade  has  carried  this  custom  to  extreme,  and  that  there  has  been 
considerable  wastage  of  paper  from  the  wrapping  of  packages  and 
rewrapping  of  bundles. 
The  present  stringency  in  the  paper  market  and  the  high  price 
commanded  by  all  grades  of  paper  should  lead  the  druggist  to  adopt 
methods  of  economy  in  his  paper  usage.  There  are  many  bundles 
that  come  to  him  from  the  wholesalers  and  manufacturers  the  outer 
wrapping  paper  and  string  of  which  can  be  preserved  and  utilized 
again  in  the  wrapping  of  his  parcels,  and  the  aggregate  saving  from 
this  simple  matter  of  economy  if  adopted  by  the  drug  trade  would 
mean  the  saving  of  many  tons  of  paper  pulp  during  the  year.  Let 
each  druggist  give  thought  to  economy  in  the  essentials  of  his  busi- 
ness, including  such  minor  items  as  paper,  string  and  corks. 
G.  M.  B. 
WHAT  OF  THE  EDMONDS  BILL? 
By  E.  Fullerton  Cook,  Ph.M., 
Secretary  National  Pharmaceutical  Service  Association. 
War  preparations  and  achievements  are  marshalled  before  us 
day  by  day  on  a  scale  beyond  the  comprehension  of  any  individual 
citizen  of  these  United  States.  There  is  no  activity  of  pre-war  days 
which  is  not  mightily  effected  by  this  concentration  of  national  en- 
ergy, assembled  for  the  sole  purpose  of  smashing  the  "  intolerable 
thing  "  which  threatened  to  engulf  the  world. 
