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Pharmaceutical  Meeting, 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  November,  1906. 
Mr.  French,  the  Chairman,  in  commenting  on  the  remarks  by  Dr. 
Lowe  said :  "  The  Chair  congratulates  Dr.  Lowe  upon  the  large 
amount  of  business  which  he  is  doing  on  Sunday,  but  would  suggest 
that  he  follow  the  precedent  established  by  some  of  the  barber 
shops  in  Philadelphia,  and  display  a  sign  stating  '  Extra  Help,'  and 
thus  get  through  with  the  business  in  the  morning  and  close  his 
store  Sunday  afternoon ;  that  in  the  opinion  of  the  Chair,  pharma- 
cists only  needed  a  little  more  '  back-bone '  and  independence  so  as 
to  act  independently  of  what  their  neighboring  competitors  do  !  " 
The  hour  being  late  the  Chairman  asked  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Rem- 
ington to  preside  as  he  was  obliged  to  catch  a  train. 
Professor  Remington,  in  taking  the  chair,  ventured  the  opinion  that 
Sunday  closing  was  not  alone  a  possibility,  it  was  a  need,  an  abso- 
lute necessity.  He  further  noted  the  fact  that  he  had  before  him  a 
number  of  ardent  advocates  of  rest  and  recreation  and  said  that  he 
felt  confident  that  they  had  much  to  say  in  favor  of  their  particular 
hobby. 
Mr.  Thomas  H.  Potts,  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of 
the  N.A.R.D.,  asserted  that  the  demand  for  shorter  hours  was  a 
reasonable  one,  but  no  longer  a  local  issue,  it  had  become  a  national 
issue  and  was  sure  to  be  crowned  with  success.  He  himself,  he  said, 
had  closed  on  Sunday  afternoons,  for  a  number  of  years,  and  during 
the  coming  winter  he  proposed  to  close  his  store  at  an  earlier  hour 
in  the  evening. 
Mr.  Stein,  of  Reading,  said  he  had  closed  his  store  on  Sunday 
afternoons  for  many  years,  and  felt  sure  that  he  had  not  lost  any- 
thing in  the  legitimate  line  of  Sunday  business. 
Professor  Kraemer  read  a  paper  that  had  been  contributed  by  one 
of  the  veteran  pharmacists  of  Philadelphia,  Mr.  R.  W.  Cuthbert, 
who  thoroughly  sympathizes  with  the  plea  of  the  retail  pharmacist 
for  shorter  hours  and  Sunday  rest  (see  page  503). 
Mr.  Wilbert  called  attention  to  a  number  of  letters  that  he  had 
received,  bearing  on  the  same  subject,  and  asked  permission  to  read 
abstracts  from  at  least  several  of  them. 
A  letter  from  Mr.  E.  D.  Cook,  of  Trenton,  brought  with  it  greet- 
ings from  Mr.  J.  G.  Bone,  of  Scranton,  who,  for  many  years,  has  been 
actively  interested  in  furthering  the  Sunday-closing  agitation. 
Mr.  Cook  on  his  own  behalf  also  contributed  a  number  of  obser- 
vations and  suggestions,  in  part,  as  follows : 
