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Editorial. 
/  Am.  Jour.  Pharnu 
I      August,  1895. 
He  tried  to  answer  the  arguments  which  were  presented  against  the  adoption  of 
the  resolution  and  to  prevent  any  unfavorable  action -being  taken,  for  which  he 
is  to  be  commended,  but  failed.  Instead  of  indorsing  the  "  Universal  Trade 
Association,"  the  following  action,  altogether  very  different  in  character,  was 
taken : 
"We  heartily  approve  of  the  organization  of  an  exclusive  retail  drug  asso- 
ciation, or  any  plan  or  plans  which  may  be  indorsed  by  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association,  or  a  majority  of  the  State  pharmaceutical  associations, 
looking  to  the  amelioration  of  the  condition  of  the  drug  trade." 
After  the  adoption  of  this  resolution,  the  agent  of  the  "  U.  T.  A."  moved  to 
have  all  previous  action  and  the  discussion  relative  thereto  expunged  from  the 
proceedings,  to  which  the  Association  would  not  agree. 
In  view  of  this  falsification  of  the  records  of  the  Pennsylvania  Association, 
what  explanation  will  the  "  Universal  Trade  Association  "  make  to  the  retail 
druggists  of  the  country  ?  How  can  it  sustain  itself  before  the  thinking  public  ? 
Let  it  answer. 
J.  H.  Redsecker. 
Lebanon,  Pa.,  July  13,  1895. 
It  will  not  clear  the  "  U.  T.  A."  to  say  that  the  second  resolution,  as  passed 
by  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association,  was  also  published  in  The 
Retail  Druggist.  Nor  can  it  plead  lack  of  time,  for  if  there  was  time  to  print 
the  second  resolution  there  was  also  time  to  leave  the  first  one  out. 
We  presume  this  corporation  will  have  agents  at  the  Denver  meeting  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  it  will  not  be  in  accordance  with  its 
past  policy  if  these  agents  do  not  have  some  well-known  member  to  present  a 
"  cut  and  dried  "  resolution  of  indorsement. 
There  have  been  many  well-matured  "plans"  presented  to  the  suffering 
pharmacists  of  America  during  the  past  few  years,  but  all  of  them  have  failed. 
This  last  one  has  the  assurance  to  ask  for  an  amount  of  money  that  is  equiva- 
lent to  an  average  of  $25  from  every  druggist  of  the  country,  then  it  will  begin 
business  and  commence  to  declare  dividends.  One  of  the  first  arguments  of 
an  agent  is  :  "  You  have  been  crying  for  deliverance,  and  now  when  you  have 
the  opportunity  offered,  you  are  too  pessimistic  to  take  advantage  of  it." 
THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  JOURNAE. 
The  first  number  of  Volume  I,  fourth  series,  of  this  time-honored  and  suc- 
cessful publication  has  reached  us.  It  has  attained  the  fifty-fifth  year  of  its 
existence,  with  its  energy  in  no  way  impaired. 
Under  the  title  of  "  Pharmaceutical  Transactions,"  it  was  originally  pub- 
lished by  Jacob  Bell,  to  record  the  transactions  of  scientific  meetings  held  by 
Bell  and  other  members  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
On  turning  back  in  the  American  Journae  oe  Pharmacy  to  1841,  page 
301,  we  find  the  new  Journal  welcomed  in  the  following  words  : 
"Not  the  least  gratifying  evidence  of  the  spirit  with  which  the  active  members  of  the 
Association1  have  entered  into  the  cause  is  the  establishment  of  the  monthly  scientific  jour- 
nal, before  referred  to,  bearing  the  title  of  '  Pharmaceutical  Transactions,'  of  which  we  have 
the  first  four  numbers  before  vis. 
"  It  is  edited  by  Jacob  Bell,  an  active  and  able  member  of  the  Council,  and  published  for 
the  present  by  him,  on  his  own  responsibility,  as  an  experiment ;  although  it  is,  no  doubt,  to 
1  The  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain. 
