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of  the  people  is  responsive  to  loyalty  among  associates  and  in  so  far 
as  this  is  departed  from  there  is  weaker  cooperation;  the  body  is 
open  to  attack  and  fails  to  secure  the  support  of  the  public  which 
would  otherwise  obtain.  The  preferential  honor  we  show  to  each 
other,  loyalty  to  ideals,  attachment  to  our  profession,  business, 
associations  and  institutions  which  make  our  progress  possible  are 
important  factors  in  upbuilding  pharmacy  and  securing  the  good  will 
of  the  people.  The  lack  of  friendship  for  one  another,  belittling  the 
work  and  inconsiderately  questioning  the  purposes  of  others,  is  not 
conducive  to  strength.  When  a  member  finds  a  fault  his  duty  is 
plain — to  join  with  the  others  in  rectifying  it. 
Dr.  Frank  Crane  recently  said:  "If  you  want  heart  disease,  lie 
awake  of  nights  and  listen  to  your  pulse.  If  you  want  any  member, 
gland  or  organ  of  your  physical  frame  to  go  on  a  strike  and  begin  to 
act  up,  give  it  a  good  dose  of  self-consciousness.  *****  There 
is  no  recipe  so  infallible  for  giving  you  the  mulligrubs  and  the  moral 
pip  and  the  spiritual  colic  as  to  keep  prying  into  yourself.  Suspect 
your  good  impulses  and  they  soon  will  wither  and  die.  Go  around 
in  your  soul  with  a  dark  lantern,  like  a  Sherlock  Holmes,  and  before 
long  all  your  decent,  self-respecting,  manly  elements  will  get  dis- 
gusted and  move  out." 
So  it  is  with  associations — unquestionably  we  should  be  dis- 
satisfied with  some  conditions,  but  dissatisfied  in  the  right  spirit. 
There  may  be  dilferences  of  opinion  concerning  the  advisability  of 
bringing  together  many  who  have  not  the  association  spirit,  who 
are  possessed  with  the  thought  that  in  affiliating  they  are  giving 
instead  of  receiving;  there  can  be  none  among  members  who  have 
grown  with  their  organization,  relative  to  strengthening  the  bonds 
that  unite  its  members  for  better  service  in  the  cause  for  which  they 
are  enlisted.  It  may  be  unprogressive  not  to  extend  an  organization 
to  include  all  similarly  engaged,  but  it  is  unwise  to  smother  the 
enthusiasm  of  faithful  workers.  It  is  difficult  for  most  of  us  to  tolerate 
the  opinions  of  others  when  our  opinions  are  of  a  different  cast,  and 
yet,  in  most  instances,  we  show  true  nobility  of  character  when  we 
do.  At  times  we  may  be  tolerant  when  we  should  not  be,  but  this 
is  seldom  true  in  associations  like  ours.  The  spirit  of  fraternity  feeds 
the  aspirations  of  the  sincere  and  faithful ;  directs  cautious  judgment ; 
engenders  a  fellowship  which  gives  joy  to  co-workers  in  the  success 
of  their  fellows,  resents  the  wrongs  from  man  to  man  and  their  calling ; 
