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Pharmaceutical  Plant  Society. 
!Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
December,  1920. 
The  Plant  Chemical  Society,  however,  yields  additional  benefits: 
It  acquaints  each  member  with  the  character  of  the  work  being 
performed  by  each  of  the  other  members,  thus  leading  to  team- 
work. 
It  affords  a  forum  for  the  open  and  unbiased  discussion  of  tech- 
nical misunderstandings  which  are  hindering  the  progress  of  the 
work  of  the  plant. 
It  affords  an  opportunity  to  the  management  of  announcing  and 
explaining  innovations,  thus  securing  the  cooperation  of  the  mem- 
bers and  eliminating  the  normal  antagonism  to  innovations  put  into 
operation  without  explanation. 
It  affords  to  both  the  management  and  employees  the  opportunity 
of  presenting  and  discussing  new  policies  which  will  advance  the 
work  and  the  prestige  of  the  plant,  or  discussing  existing  policies 
which  are  hindering  the  work  or  damaging  the  prestige  of  the  plant. 
It  affords  the  opportunity  of  issuing  and  explaining  general  in- 
structions on  a  wholesale  plan,  thus  conserving  the  time  ordinarily 
expended  by  the  individual  discussions  and  explanations  by  letter 
or  conference  which  usually  follow  the  issuance  of  general  instruc- 
tions on  an  individual  plan. 
It  affords  an  opportunity  to  the  member  to  present  his  opinions 
regarding  faults  in  products  and  processes  and  to  present  sugges- 
tions for  the  elimination  or  correction  of  the  faults. 
It  affords  an  opportunity  for  the  members  to  become  better  ac- 
quainted with  each  other  socially,  with  the  result  that  mutual  sym- 
pathy and  regard  is  engendered. 
The  final  and  desired  result  of  the  Plant  Chemical  Society  is  to 
increase  the  interest  of  the  member  in  the  scientific  aspect  of  the 
work  of  the  plant.  The  importance  of  this  result  is  attested  by  the 
fact  that  only  an  interested  employee  is  satisfactory  to  the  highest 
degree. 
In  April,  1914,  a  Chemical  Society  was  established  in  the  plant 
with  which  I  am  connected  and  the  success  of  the  movement  has 
been  so  thoroughly  proven,  that  I  feel  warranted  in  offering  an  ex- 
planation regarding  the  methods  employed  in  the  establishment 
and  conductance  of  the  Society,  for  the  guidance  of  those  plants 
in  which  no  similar  organization  is  conducted  at  present. 
The  plans  upon  which  the  Society  was  organized  and  is  being 
conducted  are,  no  doubt,  capable  of  improvement,  but,  neverthe- 
less, have  yielded  eminently  satifsactory  results. 
