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News  Items  and  Personal  Notes. 
Am.  Tour.  Pharm. 
May,  19 19. 
following  officers  were  elected  for  the  coming  year:  President,  R. 
C.  Stoffer;  Vice-Presidents,  F.  B.  Kilmer,  Willard  Ohliger,  Burton 
T.  Bush;  Treasurer,  Franklin  Black;  Secretary,  W.  J.  Woodruff. 
Air.  W.  A.  Sailer  and  Mr.  J.  E.  Bartlett  were  elected  as  members  of 
the  Executive  Committee  and  Air.  Chas.  M.  Woodruff  was  ap- 
pointed chairman  of  the  Legislative  Committee. 
The  action  taken  at  this  meeting  relating  to  the  proposed 
"  Federation  of  Pharmacy "  was  incorporated  in  preambles  and 
resolutions,  setting  forth  the  reasons  which  in  the  opinion  of  the 
members  of  the  association  made  it  impractical  for  its  membership 
to  approve  of  the  federation  as  proposed.  The  following  paragraph 
from  the  resolutions  sums  up  their  main  objection  to  what  is  termed 
the  "  inherent  incompatibility  of  such  a  Federation." 
"Resolved,  That  with  the  best  of  feeling  and  friendliest  senti- 
ment toward  all  other  independent  pharmaceutical  associations,  as 
well  as  with  the  utmost  respect  for  the  sources  of  the  federation 
idea,  the  American  Drug  Manufacturers'  Association  hereby  de- 
clares that  it  cannot  shift  the  responsibility  of  conserving  the  lawful 
interests  of  the  men  and  women  who  are  the  stockholders  of  its 
constituent  members  to  the  shoulders  of  a  Federation ;  nevertheless 
the  Association  will  hold  itself  receptive  of  any  plan  of  useful  and 
lawful  cooperation  that  will  not  involve  the  surrender  of  its  inde- 
pendence or  interfere  with  its  freedom  of  action." 
One  of  the  important  questions  discussed  at  this  meeting  was 
that  of  "  Trade  Acceptance."  This  proposed  innovation  in  American 
business  methods,  which  is  being  advocated  by  many  commercial 
organizations,  was  presented  both  pro  and  con.  Mr.  Howard 
Marshall,  of  Joseph  Wild  &  Co.  of  New  York,  presenting  arguments 
in  favor  of  the  proposition  and  Mr.  Webster  King  Wetherill,  of  the 
Aldine  Trust  Company  of  Philadelphia,  some  in  opposition. 
Dr.  J.  M.  Francis,  of  Detroit,  argued  in  favor  of  the  retention  of 
the  product  patent  on  medicinal  discoveries.  This  question  is 
another  problem  that  has  been  debated  for  several  decades  in  medical 
and  pharmaceutical  circles  and  on  which  self  interest  seems  to  be  a 
dominating  factor  for  the  opinion  held. 
The  Manufacturing  Perfumers'  Association. — This  pro- 
gressive  organization  of  manufacturing  perfumers  held  its  twenty- 
fifth  annual  convention  at  Biltmore  Hotel,  New  York,  on  April 
