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Editorial. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
January,  19 19. 
American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  as  the  exponent  of  ethical  phar- 
macy and  the  recorder  of  pharmaceutical  progress. 
It  is  a  great  pleasure  to  extend  the  salutation  of  the  new  year  to 
an  ever  widening  circle  of  readers  and  to  offer  these  our  sincere 
good  wishes  for  success  and  happiness  and  increased  prosperity  for 
the  three  hundred  and  sixty-five  days  of  this  year. 
G.  M.  B. 
THE  AMERICAN  PHARMACISTS  MAY  JUDGE. 
The  tasks  of  an  editor  who  is  alive  to  his  responsibilities,  are 
at  times  far  from  pleasant.  His  obligations  to  the  interests  that 
his  publication  serves  may  compel  him  to  differ  widely  on  some 
subjects  from  the  views  of  his  best  friends.  Again  his  duty  may 
compel  him  to  "  prick  a  wind  bag "  or  to  oppose  a  fallacy  or  to 
expose  a  fraud.  In  the  performance  of  his  duties  he  cannot  expect 
to  have  his  path  strewn  with  roses  and  while  at  times  he  may  receive 
bouquets  at  other  times  he  is  metaphorically  assailed  with  clubs  and 
flying  bricks.  So  far  as  his  human  nature  will  permit,  he  must  look 
with  complaisance  upon  either  encomium  or  condemnation  and, 
indeed,  he  may  be  well  satisfied  if  the  favorable  comments  upon 
his  work  are  in  the  majority. 
When  a  correspondent  insists  that  his  communication  be  pub- 
lished, even  though  it  contains  most  unkind  criticisms  and  censure 
of  himself,  the  editor's  duty  is  plainly  to  publish  the  letter  notwith- 
standing that  it  becomes  a  permanent  record  of  the  unseemly  lan- 
guage and  unfortunate  attitude  of  the  correspondent. 
It  is,  moreover,  an  accepted  American  principle  of  fairness  that 
every  man  is  entitled  to  his  day  in  court.  With  these  reflections, 
prominent  space  that  could  well  be  applied  to  a  more  useful  con- 
tribution, is  allotted  to  the  verbatim  publication  of  the  following 
communications.  The  subject  is  thus  before  the  pharmacists  of 
America  and  the  editor  is  satisfied  to  leave  the  issue  with  this  jury. 
Purdue  University,  Lafayette,  Indiana, 
School  of  Pharmacy, 
December  n,  1918. 
Editor  of  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy, 
Philadelphia,  Pa.  .  1 
Dear  Sir: — In  the  November  issue  of  your  Journal,  pages  749- 
752,  you  discuss  the  Special  Bulletin  on  Program  in  Pharmacy, 
