6  Editorial  { Al?-  J°ur-  Pharm- 
<->  <•     January,  19 19. 
rantings  as  are  contained  in  your  editorial  that  cause  fractional 
spirit  and  discord. 
Very  truly  yours, 
C.  B.  Jordan. 
Lincoln,  Nebr.,  Dec.  28,  1918. 
The  Editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy, 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
My  dear  Sir: — The  November  number  of  the  American  Jour- 
nal of  Pharmacy  contains  an  editorial  concerning  the  War  De- 
partment program  with  reference  to  the  establishment  of  a  pharmacy 
unit  in  the  S.  A.  T.    This  editorial  contains  a  number  of  errors 
and  apparent  misstatement  of  facts  and  as  chairman  of  the  Wash- 
ington delegation,  to  which  you  refer,  I  feel  that  I  should  at  least 
correct  these  errors,  and  upon  you  rests  the  responsibility  of  giving 
this  statement  the  same  publicity  which  you  give  the  editorial  in 
question. 
There  is  no  "  history  of  that  Sunday  conference  "  which  has  not 
been  made  public.  This  was  done  through  the  natural  channel — the 
Journal  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  It  was  also 
printed  in  the  Northwestern  Druggist — whose  editor  asked  for 
copy.  After  sending  copy  to  Mr.  Eberle,  he  suggested  that  I  send 
copy  to  you.  From  your  editorial  I  infer  that  you  knew  this. 
Knowing  this,  I  felt  that  if  you  cared  for  copy  you  would  ask  for 
it  personally.  I  do  not  see  that  I  was  under  obligation  to  send  it  to 
you,  without  request,  any  more  than  I  was  to  send  it  to  any  other 
pharmacy  journal. 
If  you  will  read  again  the  list  of  institutions  asked  to  send  repre- 
sentatives to  the  conference  on  September  29,  you  will  see  that 
your  statement  to  the  effect  that  this  was  a  deliberate'  piece  of  poli- 
tics on  the  part  of  the  University  schools,  is  untrue.  Without  men- 
tioning names,  a  glance  at  that  list  shows  that  the  Committee  on 
Education  and  Special  Training  chose  schools  representing  the  vari- 
ous types  of  institutions  constituting  the  American  Conference. 
Why  the  Committee  on  Education  and  Special  Training  called  the 
representatives  they  did,  rather  than  any  others,  is  not  known  to 
the  representatives  that  met  in  Washington.  It  is  probable,  if  you 
care  for  the  information,  that  it  might  be  obtained  by  addressing 
directly  the  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Education.  I  can  only 
say  that  I  believe  that  every  man  who  was  called  to  Washington 
