THE  AMEEIOAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
SEPTEMBER,  igiS 
EDITORIAL. 
THE  PASSING  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  CALENDAR. 
Meetings  of  many  of  the  state  associations  for  the  calendar  year 
1 91 8  have  already  been  held  and  the  recent  meeting  of  the  Amer- 
ican Pharmaceutical  Association  marks  another  of  the  series  of 
red-letter  days  on  the  pharmaceutical  calendar.  It  is  assumed  that 
the  records  of  accomplishments  of  the  meetings  of  the  various  phar- 
maceutical associations  for  this  year  are  fully  up  to  the  average  and 
it  is  hoped  that  the  results  of  these  meetings  may  prove  to  be  per- 
manent benefits  to  pharmacy. 
Presumably,  there  was  some  public  need  that  called  into  existence 
every  one  of  the  pharmaceutical  organizations  in  the  United  States 
and  that  such  need  of  organization  and  of  service  was  a  more  or 
less  permanent  one  and  the  value  of  each  association  will  be  de- 
pendent upon  the  success  attending  its  efforts  to  carry  out  the  pur- 
poses of  its  organization. 
At  the  Chicago  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, the  question  of  a  federation  of  all  the  pharmaceutical  asso- 
ciations into  one  grand  organization  was.  discussed  at  a  meeting  of 
delegates  representing  the  more  important  pharmaceutical  and  drug 
trade  organizations.  It  was  apparent  that  these  represented  many 
interests  more  or  less  diverse  and  incongruous.  While  in  many 
matters  of  national  importance  their  interests  were  in  common, 
other  subjects  were  of  peculiar  and  particular  consequence  perhaps 
to  only  one  of  the  organizations  or  trade  interests. 
The  deliberations  resulted  in  a  conclusion  to  test  out  more  fully 
the  plan  of  cooperation  on  matters  of  universal  interest  to  Pharmacy 
through  the  National  Drug  Trade  Conference.  The  wisdom  of  this 
conclusion  will  probably  be  demonstrated  and  the  germ  of  the  fed- 
