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f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(        March,  1920. 
City,  April  12-15.  The  Scientific  Section  will  hold  a  morning  and 
afternoon  session  on  Monday,  April  12,  and  a  morning  session  Tues- 
day, April  13,  while  the  Biological  Section  will  hold  one  session  only 
on  the  afternoon  of  April  12.  The  sessions  of  the  Association  as  a 
whole  will  begin  on  the  afternoon  of  Tuesday,  April  13. 
The  business  sessions  will  be  devoid  of  all  purely  formal  features 
and  will  be  devoted  to  practical  discussion  of  important  trade  prob- 
lems, notably  the  alcohol  regulations,  the  return  of  unsalable  goods, 
freight  and  express  allowances,  guarantees  against  declines  in  price, 
and  kindred  problems. 
In  connection  with  the  discussion  of  the  alcohol  problem,  the 
committee  on  arrangements  hopes  to  induce  Mr.  Adams,  of  the 
Bureau  of  Internal  Revenue,  to  address  the  Convention. 
NEWS  ITEMS  AND  PERSONAL  NOTES. 
Philadelphia  Reception  to  Returned  Soldier  and  Sailor 
Pharmacists. — The  various  pharmaceutical  and  drug  trade  organ- 
izations of  Philadelphia  arranged,  through  a  committee  representing 
these  organizations,  a  public  reception  and  dance  for  returned  soldier 
and  sailor  pharmacists.  The  function  was  held  at  Lulu  Temple  on 
the  evening  of  Friday,  February  27th,  and  was  a  marked  success. 
Mr.  Edward  T.  Hahn  was  chairman  of  the  committee  that  made 
every  one  of  the  800  participants  and  especially  the  more  than  200 
service  men  feel  thoroughly  at  their  ease  and  enjoy  the  occasion  to 
the  fullest.  Among  the  men  who  had  been  in  the  military  service  of 
the  country  and  who  made  addresses  were  Karl  P.  Ehman,  who  took 
as  a  subject,  "With  the  Guns,"  and  Thomas  J.  Devine,  who  spoke  for 
"The  Navy."  A  stirring  patriotic  address  by  Captain  Donald  Kirk 
was  followed  by  a  silent  tribute  in  honor  of  the  men  who  had  made  the 
"sublime  sacrifice." 
Dr.  Robert  P.  Fischelis,  chairman  of  the  World  War  Veteran 
Section  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  presented  to 
each  of  the  service  men  in  attendance  a  free  membership  in  the 
A.  Ph.  A. 
Ample  refreshments  and  music  interspersed  the  addresses  and  the 
evening  was  closed  with  dancing;  the  occasion  was  declared  as 
one  of  the  most  enjoyable  affairs  ever  held  by  the  drug  trade  of  the 
Quaker  City. 
