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In  concluding  his  address,  Mr.  Wooten  presented  the  following 
resolutions,  which  were  considered  and  adopted  not  only  by  the 
section  but  by  the  Association  at  the  final  session.  The  resolution 
advocating  the  establishment  of  commercial  training  courses  in  Col- 
leges  of  Pharmacy  furnished  the  topic  tor  the  greatest  amount  of 
discussion. 
Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Association  that  retail  pharmacists  will 
advance  their  individual  interests  and  the  interests  of  pharmacy  as  a  whole  by 
making  the  working  hours  of  clerks  as  few  as  possible  consistent  with  the 
proper  conduct  of  their  respective  stores,  also  by  providing  clerks  with  health- 
ful sleeping  quarters  and  by  liberality  in  the  matter  of  compensation,  the  end 
sought  being  to  bring  into  the  profession  of  pharmacy  a  greater  number  of 
capable  and  ambitious  young  men  who  will  otherwise  be  deterred  from  enter, 
ing  it. 
Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Association  that  the  several  schools  of 
pharmacy  ought  to  include  in  their  curricula  a  course  of  commercial  training 
comprehensive  enough  to  insure  that  the  student  is  fully  capable  of  properly 
managing  a  retail  drug  business,  the  passing  of  a  satisfactory  examination  in 
this  branch  being  a  prerequisite  to  graduation. 
Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Association  that  retail  pharmacists  will 
greatly  increase  their  prospects  of  success  as  business  and  professional  men  by 
inaugurating  occasional  conferences  between  their  respective  local  organiza- 
tions (of  which  there  ought  to  be  one  in  every  community)  and  the  physicians 
of  their  localities,  in  which  conference  there  are  brought  up  for  discussion  the 
relations  of  the  physician  and  pharmacist  to  each  other  and  of  both  to  the 
puttlic,  it  being  confidently  believed  such  conferences  will  benefit  all  con- 
cerned. 
Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
that  price  cutting  on  proprietary  and  other  goods,  inaugurated  and  carried  on 
for  the  specific  purpose  of  gaining  an  advantage  over  one's  fellow  pharmacists, 
is  wrong  in  principle  and  subversive  of  the  association  spirit,  to  foster  which 
spirit  the  Association  was  formed. 
Resolved,  That  this  organization  deprecates  the  feeling  said  to  exist  in 
some  quarters  that  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  is  not  in  as 
hearty  accord  as  it  should  be  with  the  efforts  which  the  retail  pharmacists  of 
the  country  are  putting  forth  individually  and  collectively  to  improve  their 
financial  status. 
Resolved,  That  the  Association  heartily  commends  all  such  endeavors  and 
cordially  urges  upon  pharmacists  the  desirability  of  identifying  themselves 
closely  with  their  respective  local  and  State  organizations,  the  National 
Association  of  Retail  Druggists  and  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
the  commercial  section  of  which  devotes  itself  exclusively  to  subjects  of  vital 
interest  to  those  engaged  in  conducting  retail  drug  stores. 
A  number  of  papers  of  a  practical  nature  were  presented  which 
were  well  received  and  caused  considerable  discussion :  Ralph  B. 
Gable  presented  a  paper  on  "  A  Useful  but  Neglected  Servant  "  in 
