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(1)  A  candidate  for  a  proprietor's  or  manager's  certificate  must 
produce  satisfactory  evidence  that  he  is  a  graduate  of  some  reputa- 
ble and  chartered  college  of  pharmacy. 
(2)  The  amendment  does  not  become  operative  until  January  I, 
1906,  and  it  only  applies  to  those  going  into  business  after  that 
time;  it  does  not  affect  druggists  already  in  business  or  clerks  apply- 
ing for  qualified  assistants'  certificate  before  the  Board. 
This  subject  has  been  so  frequently  discussed  that  it  seems  hardly 
necessary  to  present  any  further  arguments  in  support  of  legislation 
of  this  kind,  but  in  order  that  the  pharmacists  of  this  State  may  real- 
ize the  necessity  for  writing  to  their  respective  senators  and  repre- 
sentatives, so  that  they  may  be  assured  that  there  is  a  real  need  for 
the  enactment  of  the  proposed  amendment,  we  here  present  some 
of  the  more  specific  reasons  for  its  enactment,  as  set  forth  by  Prof. 
Joseph  P.  Remington. 
(1)  The  amendment  is  needed  to  elevate  pharmacy  to  the  stand- 
ard which  the  retail  pharmacist  of  the  State  is  entitled  to,  because 
his  position  is  most  responsible  before  the  community,  and  the 
greater  attainments  of  the  pharmacist  of  to-day  warrant  the  same 
recognition  at  the  hands  of  the  public  as  that  accorded  to  physicians 
and  dentists  of  this  State,  who  have  the  same  provision  in  their 
medical  and  dental  laws. 
(2)  The  passage  of  such  an  amendment  does  not  work  hardship 
upon  any  druggist  doing  business  in  the  State  to-day,  and  on  ac- 
count of  the  prerequisite  law  now  operative  in  the  State  of  New 
York,  the  passage  of  this  amendment  will  prevent  a  flood  of  drug- 
gists who  are  not  graduates  from  coming  into  this  State  and  going 
into  business  here,  because  they  are  unable  or  unwilling  to  qualify 
themselves  so  as  to  comply  with  the  law  in  the  State  of  New  York. 
As  a  protective  measure  it  especially  commends  itself  at  this  time. 
(3)  A  profession,  trade  or  occupation  which  is  united  in  the  work 
of  excluding  uneducated  and  incompetent  men  from  lowering  the 
standard  of  the  whole  must  commend  itself  to  your  judgment. 
(4)  The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  the  Pennsylvania 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  the  Philadelphia  Retail  Druggists'  As- 
sociation, the  colleges  of  pharmacy  and  the  State  Board  of  Phar- 
macy have  passed  resolutions  or  have  signified  their  approval  of  this 
amendment. 
(5)  The  medical  profession,  as  a  body,  throughout  the  State 
