Dr. Albert Brown Lyons, Detroit, Mich., honorary president of the A. Ph. A., was represented on the cover of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for September.

The Pharmaceutical Public is gradually learning that one year high school or its educational equivalent is necessary in order to register in the various states.

Do Not Jump at Conclusions. We find that many pharmacists take it for granted that reciprocity may be obtained on a certificate issued on account of a diploma from a college of pharmacy. Such is not the case. Some graduates are content to make use of their diploma as if it were a certificate of regis tration. They are liable to prosecution. Every pharmacist must be registered.

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Want Advertisements, Page 39.
Missouri Reciprocity, Page 313.

Index to Advertisements, Page 40.

Editorial

Revise the Constitution.-We have on previous occasions referred to the perennial efforts made by state pharmaceutical associations to amend the state pharmacy laws or secure the enactment of entirely new statutes. We believe that it would be quite impossible to gather two hundred pharmacists in a state meeting, all of whom would feel content with the pharmacy law of the state. The more the law is studied, the greater is the anxiety to amend it. Whether or not any particular amendment that is secured is really an advantage may be considered largely a matter of personal opinion. It cannot be denied, however, that the general trend of amendments actually made is for the betterment of pharmacy and greater service to the public. This is a redeeming feature of the situation. We do not advocate prohibition of activity on the part of committees on legislation, but we do plead for moderation.

The constitutions of pharmaceutical organizations run a similar guantlet to the state pharmacy laws. The constitutions are not likely to attract as much attention as the laws, but the mere reading of a state pharmaceutical association constitution and by-laws will at once suggest to the observing member that the document needs amending. Here again, moderation should be observed. It is all right to amend the constitution and alter the by-laws, provided a real improvement in the working power is brought about. Usually something more than a mere major

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ity vote is required to make such changes. ɔne person's opinion may be just as good as another's, still we feel that in order to change the constitution or by-laws the proposition should be practically unanimous. Every association has its objecting member, who on general principles interposes obstacles to a large proportion of the motions presented. Such a member should not be permitted to block the motions that meet with the approval of the membership with this single exception. If such an obstreperous member has considerable following, the proposition should be laid over for consideration. In objecting to the rule and guide of an organization, the members should constantly keep in mind utility rather than personal preference.

Graduates Are More Practical Today than they ever were before. When graduates of colleges of pharmacy were few and far between, which is within the memory of our older readers, they were not as popular as they are today. Many proprietors preferred a man of ripe drug store experience to a recent colege of pharmacy graduate. Today the proportion of graduates has greatly increased and the nature of heir qualifications, as acquired in college work, has become more practical. This is due to extended labɔratory work and the drill in commercial pharmacy.

Today, the recent graduate of a college of pharmacy which demands four years' drug store experience is looked upon as a very desirable clerk. In fact, such graduates usually have positions secured before their diplomas are in hand.

Not only in pharmacy, but also in medicine, has the efficiency of the college curriculum been enhanced by modern methods of teaching. The young doctor of today is by no means as young in years as he was a generation ago. What is more, he has during his college days acquired considerable actual practice in medicine and the advantage of hospital experience. Medical students are no longer graduated with the understanding that they will acquire experience and become qualified after graduation. The most recent graduate of a thoroughly equipped medical school is a perfectly safe practitioner.

Synthetic Rubber has long been known as a possibility and of late years considered a probability. On more than one occasion of late have announcements been made of synthetic rubber as a certainty. The most recent claim comes from a million-dollar corporation in Great Britain. The firm proposes within the next few months to turn out synthetic rubber at the rate of one thousand tons per week. The expense has been figured down to eight cents a pound. If all of the claims are true, the stockholders are the ones most likely to profit by the invention. It is not probable that synthetic rubber will be sold materially below the price of natural rubber. It is safe to surmise that the natural product will remain in the field, for public opinion alone will give it credit for being superior to an "unnatural" product and demand for it a price above that of the synthetic article.

We suggest that those who are so largely interested in rubber plantations and the use of rubber study the history of synthetic camphor from time to time. The artificial camphor was expected to demoralize, if not retire from business, all natural camphor interests. Up to date, the camphor trees continue their activity in producing the natural product and mankind is willing to pay whatever the Japanese government decides shall be demanded for camphor.

Are You Interested in History?-Perhaps that was just the branch of study that you most disliked when you were in school. Even if such was the case, it does not follow that you should shun the study of history at the present time. We are reminded of this subject by the announcement of a book in England giving the history of a small city, written by a local pharmacist. It is true that his family dated back four centuries in that place, but it is not necessary to have such a personal history in order to appreciate the value of collecting and preserving the records of the place in which you live and do business. Pharmacists are in a position to secure the co-operation of those in the place with a literary turn of mind and pharmacists also have the opportunity of meeting the oldest settlers and