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Status  of  Legislation. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
i     February,  1920. 
but  the  needs  of  humanity  at  that  time  were  paramount  to  the  ex- 
pense of  production.  Then  too,  one  can  imagine  the  prestige  he 
gained  when  his  customers  told  others,  "If  you  can't  get  it  anywhere 
else,  you  can  get  it  at  'So  and  So's.'  "  The  druggist  who  manufac- 
tures, even  in  a  small  way,  has  apparatus  and  raw  material  on  hand 
that,  otherwise,  he  would  not  have,  and,  when  the  need  arises, 
can  turn  them  to  account.  Thereby,  he  not  only  reaps  a  just  finan- 
cial reward,  but  receives  the  satisfaction  of  having  helped  his  fellow 
men. 
Business  is  a  complex  problem,  never  more  so  than  at  present. 
A  multitude  of  little-considered  factors  contribute  to  the  success 
or  failure  of  those  engaged  in  it.  We  are  only  too  apt  to  say  that 
because  two  and  two  make  four  we  have  found  the  correct  answer 
to  the  problem.  However,  if  another  figure  has  been  omitted  from 
the  column,  it  avails  us  nothing  that  our  answer  was,  in  so  far  as  it 
went,  correct. 
STATUS  OF   LEGISLATION   ON  ARMY  AND  NAVY 
PHARMACISTS. 
By  K.  FulIvErton  Cook,  Ph.M., 
phii.adei.phia,  pa. 
The  Secretary  of  the  National  Pharmaceutical  Service  Associa- 
tion has  had  the  opportunity  on  several  occasions  recently  to  confer 
with  Surgeon- General  Ireland,  of  the  Army  and  Surgeon-General 
Braisted  of  the  Navy,  concerning  the  details  of  proposed  pharma- 
ceutical work  in  the  reorganized  military  service. 
It  is  gratifying  to  learn  that  Dr.  Ireland's  plan  for  a  Medical 
Service  Corps,  which  is  to  assume  work  which  is  not  strictly  medical, 
but  connected  with  the  medical  corps,  has  met  with  the  approval 
by  both  the  Committees  of  the  House  and  the  Senate.,  and  by  the 
General  Staff  of  the  Army,  and  is  incorporated  as  a  part  of  the  new 
Army  bill  about  to  be  submitted  to  Congress.  It  will  be  remem- 
bered that  Dr.  Ireland  agreed  to  have  a  pharmaceutical  section  in 
this  Medical  Service  Corps,  in  which  a  limited  number  of  pharmacists 
would  be  commissioned.    This  favorable  status  for  the  proposed 
