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A  Bit  of  History. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
April,  1920. 
Hall,  Washington  Monument,  Lincoln's  Memorial,  National  Mu- 
seum, Smithsonian  Institution,  Zoological  Garden,  Botanical  Gar- 
dens, Bureau  of  Printing  and  Engraving,  Corcoran  Art  Gallery, 
Fish  Commission,  Government  Printing  Office,  Lee's  Mansion,  etc. 
Provisions  are  made  to  take  all  the  visitors  to  Mt.  Vernon  enroute 
to  the  Shad  Bake. 
The  local  committee  is  prepared  to  give  every  possible  assistance 
and  aid  in  planning  so  that  you  can  see  and  learn  the  greatest  amount 
in  the  shortest  possible  time.  There  will  be  some  one  at  the  Union 
Station,  properly  badged,  to  meet  you,  If  you  should  be  missed 
apply  at  the  Traveler's  Aid  Booth,  in  the  center  of  the  building, 
for  information.  There  is  only  one  railroad  station  in  Washington 
and  that  is  considered  the  best  in  the  world,  by  many.  Its  main 
concourse  will  accommodate  50,000  people.  On  arriving  in  Wash- 
ington go  directly  to  headquarters.  The  New  Willard  Hotel,  for 
registration  and  information.  Cars  passing  in  front  of  the  station 
marked  "Georgetown"  or  "14th"  and  some  other  street  will  take 
you  to  headquarters. 
1820— A  BIT  OF  HISTORY.* 
By  J.  W.  Sturmer,  Phar.D. 
There  is  no  periodicity  in  the  great  events  which  mark  the  march 
of  human  progress.  Only  happenings  correlated  to  the  seasons  keep 
step  with  the  calendar.  And  when  history  repeats  itself — which 
it  never  does  except  with  variations — even  numbers  of  years,  or 
odd  numbers,  or  decimal  multiples,  have  no  special  significance — 
of  course  not. 
But  it  is  true  that  the  year  1820  was  in  many  respects  like  the 
present — 1920.  The  chronicles  of  that  early  period  seem  strangely 
modern.  We  find  references  to  high  prices,  labor  disturbances, 
to  unstable  equilibrium  in  business  affairs,  political  unrest,  and 
evidence,  in  Europe  particularly,  of  that  abnormal  attitude  of  mind 
which  in  our  time  has  led  to  overt  acts  on  a  large  scale,  and  which 
has  received  a  Russian  name.  The  fact  is,  after  a  hundred  years 
Europe  and  America,  both,  again  are  passing  through  a  period  of 
convalescence  following  the  exhausting  distemper,  war.    In  1820, 
*  Extracts  from  an  address  before  Philadelphia  Branch,  A.  Ph.  A.,  at  the 
January  meeting. 
