496  The  Forty-third  Annual  Meeting.       { ^''Yniy^'9S>: 
in  maintaining  a  treasurer  as  a  distinct  office  from  the  Secretary, 
and  we  do  not  approve  of  the  proposal  to  amend  the  constitution 
so  as  to  enable  these  offices  to  be  combined. 
R.  L.  D.  CLASSIFICATION. 
We  heartily  endorse  the  proposal  to  join  with  other  State  and 
National  Pharmaceutical  Organizations  in  a  concerted  effort  to 
relieve  pharmacists  of  the  stigma  of  being  called  Retail  Liquor 
Dealers  when  they  are  not  so  in  fact,  and  approve  the  recommenda- 
tion that  the  Committee  of  Legislation  of  this  Association  be  author- 
ized to  cooperate  in  the  drafting  and  passing  of  suitable  legislation 
to  accomplish  this  aim. 
r        ■  '  -  COMPULSORY  HEALTH  INSURANCE. 
We  approve  of  the  recommendation  that  the  Legislative  Com- 
mittee of  the  P.  P.  A.  be  instructed  to  wage  an  active  campaign 
against  Compulsory  Health  Legislation,  and  to  cooperate  toward 
this  end  with  all  other  organizations  working  for  this  same  purpose. 
STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL  EXPERIMENT  STATION. 
We  approve  of  the  recommendation  that  the  Legislative  Com- 
mittee of  this  Association  be  authorized  to  draw  up  and  have  intro- 
duced into  the  next  legislature,  a  bill  providing  for  the  extablishment 
of  such  an  institution  which  should  be  modeled  upon  the  lines  of  the 
Wisconsin  station,  and  that  the  incoming  officers  be  requested  to 
inaugurate  an  active,  educational  campaign  leading  to  the  accom- 
plishment of  this  plan. 
ADVISORY  COUNCIL  REPRESENTATION  IN  HEALTH  DEPARTMENT. 
We  approve  of  the  recommendation  that  we  endorse  by  appro- 
priate resolution  the  sympathetic  attitude  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Department  of  Health  under  the  able  leadership  of  Dr.  Edward 
Martin,  and  that  a  request  be  made  for  the  appointment  of  a  Phar- 
maceutical representative  upon  the  Advisory  Council  of  the  Health 
Department.  We  further  feel  that  such  a  request  should  be  accom- 
panied by  a  list  of  five  prominent  pharmacists,  members  of  this 
Association,  eligible  for  appointment  to  such  position,  and  that  this 
list  should  be  selected  by  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Association. 
METRIC  SYSTEM  OF  WEIGHTS  AND  MEASURES. 
We  emphatically  approve  the  universal  adoption  of  the  metric 
system  for  all  commercial  transactions  at  as  early  a  date  as  is  prac- 
