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for  that  conference,  did  his  work  conscientiously,  earnestly,  and  had 
only  in  mind  the  making  of  a  program  which  would  best  carry  out 
the  idea  the  War  Department  had  in  mind  in  preparing  men  for  the 
Service.  The  war  is  over  and  the  S.  A.  T.  C.  is  abandoned  and  we 
are  permitted  to  return  to  our  educational  work  on  the  pre-war  basis. 
It  seems  to  me  that  the  fact  that  the  War  Department  recognized 
the  need  of  establishing  a  pharmacy  unit  in  the  S.  A.  T.  C.  in  order 
to  train  men  for  army  and  civil  life,  is  an  act  of  considerable  im- 
portance to  the  pharmaceutical  profession.  It  can  be  viewed  only 
as  an  advance  step  and  is  worthy  of  the  widest  publicity  and  favor- 
able criticism.  The  attitude  which  you  assumed  in  your  editorial 
on  this  matter  is  most  deplorable,  chiefly  because  it  makes  one  of 
the  oldest  and  most  respected  of  pharmaceutical  journals  smack  of 
yellow  journalism. 
Very  truly  yours, 
Rufus  A.  Lyman, 
The  University  of  Nebraska. 
The  perturbation  of  our  correspondents  would  make  it  seem 
that  the  editorial  "  A  Quasi  Recognition  of  Pharmacy  "  published  in 
the  November,  191 8,  issue  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy 
served  a  useful  purpose  and  that  it  had  scored  a  direct  hit. 
The  first  of  these  communications,  although  bearing  the  date  of 
December  11,  was  not  mailed  until  December  26,  and  thus  evidences 
ample  time  for  reflection  and  consultation  before  promulgation. 
Although  this  correspondent  had  the  personally  written  assurance 
of  the  editor  that  "  my  comment  editorially  had  no  reference  what- 
ever with  your  letter  of  the  fourteenth  of  October  and  I  had  no 
reason  whatever  to  take  any  exception  to  that  communication.  No 
one  deprecates  more  thoroughly  the  introduction  of  '  factional 
spirit'  in  pharmaceutical  circles  than  I  do  and  my  pointing  out  the 
danger  of  such  was  certainly  not  to  be  construed  as  an  endeavor  to 
encourage  same,"  nevertheless,  he  insists  upon  its  publication. 
His  ludicrous  position  is  like  that  of  one  who  persists  in  wearing 
a  shoe  that  was  not  made  for  him  and  the  size  of  which  is  so  small 
that  it  will  be  a  continuous  discomfort  to  him  and  without  the  possi- 
bility of  relief  from  the  suffering. 
What  are  the  undeniable  facts  of  the  case?  What  is  the  un- 
varnished truth  divested  of  the  entanglement  of  high  sounding 
phrases?    When  an  individual  or  a  group  of  individuals  address  a 
