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American  Pharmaceutical  Association:  {Ag 
committee  to  consider  the  organization  of  local  associations,  which 
motion  was  carried  and  also  adopted  at  the  last  general  session  of 
the  Association. 
Lines  on  Which  Pharmacy  Laws  Should  Be  Drafted. 
The  author  suggests  that  the  supervision  of  the  State  should 
extend  primarily  and  principally  to  the  store  itself;  the  owner  or 
manager  thereof  being  held  personally  responsible  for  the  acts  of 
his  employees,  should  be  allowed  greater  latitude  in  their  selection, 
and  registration  should  be  required  only  of  him.  Restriction  of  the 
examination  to  those  only  who  are  candidates  for  ownership  or 
managership  would  greatly  reduce  the  number  of  applicants  for 
examination  and  would  enable  the  examiners  to  more  thoroughly 
inquire  into  their  competency  and  trustworthiness. 
On  the  Problem  of  Proprietary  and  Trade  Names. 
The  author  discusses  the  nuisance  arising  from  the  self-evident 
right  of  the  manufacturer  to  coin  convenient,  short  and  easily 
remembered  names  of  so-called  new  remedies,  and  the  fact  that  the 
medical  and  pharmaceutical  professions  are  being  overwhelmed  with 
a  multitude  of  meaningless  and,  in  many  cases,  misleading  names. 
Many  of  these  names  are  dangerously  similar,  and  are  likely  to  lead 
to  serious  misunderstanding  and  possibly  fatal  mistakes.  The 
injustice  to  the  public,  as  well  as  the  pharmacist,  is  evidenced  by  the 
unnecessary  duplication  of  names  and  titles  for  substances  or  mix- 
tures that  are  not  themselves  covered  by  patents. 
The  author  says  that  however  we  may  differ  about  methods  of 
education,  we  will  all  agree  that  that  course  of  training  which  best 
fits  a  man  to  serve  his  fellow-men  in  any  special  calling  is  the  one 
most  earnestly  to  be  sought.  It  has  been  said  that  the  end  of  educa- 
tion is  life,  and  the  object  of  life  is  service.  As  compensation  is  the 
reward  paid  to  service,  the  higher  the  service  the  greater  the  com- 
pensation. 
By  Albert  E.  Ebert. 
By  M.  I.  Wilbert. 
Practical  Education. 
By  John  F.  Patton. 
