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These  thoughts  can  be  interpreted  in  several  ways.  According  to 
the  one  the  Association  needs  a  vitalizing  something  and  according 
to  the  other  we  must  wait  for  a  number  of  years  for  this  new  twen- 
tieth century  blood  to  take  on  the  responsibilities  of  manhood.  A 
combination  of  the  ideas  of  these  writers — neither  complete  without 
the  other — teaches  that  it  is  with  associations  as  with  men — they 
only  are  truly  successful  who  so  conduct  their  lives  that  they  live 
to-day  for  to-morrow.  The  A.Ph.A.  in  other  words  needs  the 
transfusion  of  new  blood  to-day  for  the  good  it  will  do  to-morrow. 
This  is  in  exact  accord  with  the  experience  which  teaches  that 
leaders  of  associations,  as  well  as  masters  of  any  undertaking,  must 
have  served  a  period  of  apprenticeship.  New  members  must  wait 
and  learn  before  they  can  help  in  judiciously  solving  the  great 
problems  confronting  large  associations.  If  we  think  for  a  moment 
of  the  men  at  the  helm  of  the  A.Ph.A.  we  see  men  who  are  still 
active ;  men  who  have  regularly  attended  the  meetings  and  parti- 
cipated in  its  councils  for  years  and  men  who  have  persistently 
looked  after  the  interests  and  honor  of  the  Association.  Do  we 
think  for  a  moment  that  they  have  done  this  with  an  eye'  single  to 
their  own  interests  ?  Rather  do  we  not  see  that  they  have  done  all 
this  with  a  love  for,  and  pride  in,  the  Association.  The  A.Ph.A. 
stands  for  something  to-day  because  there  are  many  men  who  have 
served  her  in  season  and  out  of  season.  The  new  members,  like 
the  new  blood  corpuscles,  must  pass  through  a  long  and  useful  course 
and  get  in  line  (form  a  rouleau,  so  to  speak)  finally  to  be  honored 
with  true  comradeship.  The  A.Ph.A  needs  the  blood,  but  it  must 
do  more  than  get  it — it  must  see  that  it  passes  to  this  stage  of  use- 
fulness. 
There  never  was  a  time  when  all  the  members  were  so  active  in 
endeavoring  to  make  the  Association  of  value.  The  action  of  the 
Section  on  Scientific  Papers,  in  limiting  the  time  for  the  reading  and 
discussion  of  papers,  has  made  the  meetings  of  this  section  of  very 
great  interest.  We  believe,  too,  that  there  never  was  a  time  when 
the  work  done  in  this  section  was  more  creditable  to  the  Association 
and  more  beneficial  to  pharmacy  at  large  than  to-day.  It  is  well 
known  that  at  the  Pharmacopceial  Convention  it  was  the  active 
members  of  the  A.Ph.A.  that  contributed  so  much  to  its  success. 
The  section  on  Education  and  Legislation  has  had  a  beneficent 
influence  on  the  teaching  in  colleges  and  on  State  Legislation.  The 
