572  Chairman  s  Address  on  Education.  {^JmberaSS0, 
developments  of  the  year  which  has  elapsed  since  we  gathered  in 
Kansas  City  last  September.  Of  first  importance  are  the  acts  of 
two  other  States  in  ranging  themselves  alongside  New  York  in  the 
vanguard  of  the  new  movement  for  compulsory  graduation  in  phar- 
macy. The  Pennsylvania  pharmacists  have  secured  an  amendment 
to  their  pharmacy  law  providing  that  hereafter  a  candidate  for  the 
board  of  pharmacy  examination  who  desires  to  become  the  pro- 
prietor of  a  store  "  must  present  satisfactory  evidence  of  being  a 
graduate  of  some  reputable  and  properly  chartered  college  of  phar- 
macy." In  Wisconsin,  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  has  boldly  estab- 
lished the  graduation  requirement  on  its  own  initiative.  It  has 
passed  resolutions  providing  that  after  July  f,  1905  (a  date  now 
passed),  all  candidates  for  examination  must  have  had  one  year  of 
high-school  work  or  its  equivalent;  that  after  July  1,  1906,  they 
must  have  had  one  year  of  at  least  thirty-two  weeks  in  a  school  of 
pharmacy  recognized  by  the  Board;  and  that  after  July  I,  1907, 
they  must  have  had  a  full  pharmacy  course.  The  Pennsylvania 
amendment  affects  the  proprietor  only,  but  the  New  York  law  and 
the  Wisconsin  resolutions  make  no  distinction  between  proprietor 
and  clerk. 
If  we  do  not  forget  Hawaii,  which  enacted  the  Beal  model  law 
of  this  Association  two  or  three  years  ago,  including  even  the  grad- 
uation requirement  contained  in  that  measure,  we  see  that  four  States 
and  Territories  now  demand  that  the  pharmacist  of  the  future  shall 
be  properly  trained  for  the  responsible  duties  of  his  occupation  in 
an  accredited  school  or  college  of  pharmacy.  A  fifth  commonwealth, 
Minnesota,  endeavored  likewise  to  secure  the  enactment  ol  a  gradu- 
ation prerequisite  law  this  year,  and  the  attempt  would  doubtless 
have  succeeded  had  it  not  been  for  the  strange  and  unaccountable 
opposition  exerted  at  the  eleventh  hour  by  a  group  of  pharmacists 
themselves — an  occurrence  which  brings  home  to  us  most  forcibly 
the  truth  that  in  this  demand  for  better  things  we  shall  need  to 
educate  those  within  no  less  than  those  without  our  ranks  to  the 
cardinal  importance  and  necessity  of  the  step.  In  the  meantime, 
however,  it  is  most  reassuring  to  observe  that  at  least  three  State 
Associations,  convening  in  annual  session  during  recent  months, 
have  decided  to  secure  graduation  prerequisite  legislation  at  the 
earliest  practicable  time — and  the  end  is  not  yet  ! 
But  the  educational  progress  of  the  last  year  has  by  no  means 
