338  National  Boards  of  Pharmacy.  {^'l^mt^' 
matters  and  it  is,  therefore,  believed  that  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association  should  be  invited  to  aid  us  in  our  work.  We 
have  therefore  requested  the  proper  committee  of  the  Association 
to  give  time  upon  the  program  of  the  Section  on  Education  and 
Legislation  for  the  consideration  of  these  propositions,  and  that 
request  has  been  granted. 
After  discussion  in  the  Section  on  Education  and  Legislation  oi 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  the  propositions  may  be 
considered  by  the  separate  meetings  of  the  National  Association  oi 
Boards  of  Pharmacy  and  the  American  Conference  of  Pharmaceutical 
Faculties,  respectively,  should  those  bodies  so  decide. 
Finally  the  Joint  Conference  of  the  Boards  and  Schools  having 
had  the  advantage  of  full  discussion  and  the  advice  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  will  then  proceed  with  its  business 
without  being  seriously  handicapped  by  .the  limited  time  at  its 
disposal. 
In  obedience  to  instructions  we  have  prepared  the  following : — 
PROGRAM  OF  PROPOSITIONS  SUGGESTED  FOR  DISCUSSION  AND  ACTION. 
(1)  All  laws  and  regulations  governing  the  licensing  of  pharmacists  should 
make  due  distinction  between  apprentices,  clerks  and  principals,  and  should 
establish  definite  minimum  qualifications  and  indicate  the  rights  and  duties 
of  each  of  these  three  classes  of  pharmaceutical  workers. 
(2)  The  age  of  seventeen  years  and  a  preliminary  general  education  of  one 
year's  satisfactorily  completed  high  school  work,  or  its  full  educational  equiv- 
alent, should  be  the  minimum  prerequisites  to  the  practical  pharmaceutical 
experience  or  apprenticeship  demanded  by  the  laws,  and  no  drugstore  experi- 
ence acquired  at  an  earlier  age  or  before  the  attainment  of  the  preliminary 
education  prescribed  should  be  accepted  as  sufficiently  effective  to  satisfy  the 
intent  of  the  law. 
[The  adoption  of  this  rule  does  not  prevent  the  employment  of  children 
under  seventeen  years  or  with  less  than  one  year's  high  school  education  in 
drugstores,  it  only  prevents  the  recognition  or  acceptance  of  their  employment 
as  legally  admissible  evidence  of  fit  preparation  for  license  to  practice  phar- 
macy.] 
(3)  The  age  and  preliminary  general  education  prescribed  for  legally  suffi- 
cient drugstore  training  should  also  be  minimum  prerequisites  for  admission 
to  schools  of  pharmacy. 
(4)  Special  education  for  the  practice  of  pharmacy  is  in  this  age  a  necessity 
and  should  as  rapidly  as  possible  be  made  compulsory,  and  the  rules  of  the 
Boards  of  Pharmacy  should  be  such  as  to  promote  and?  encourage  it  in  all 
practicable  ways. 
The  special  pharmaceutical  education  required  should  include  substantial 
laboratory  courses. 
