and mail it, was too good to be grinding out his young life behind the counter for twenty out of the twenty-four hours, so we proposed that he come into the city some day when business was slack and have a talk with us. This he did one Sunday afternoon, with the result that we asked him if he would exchange his twenty hours a day and seventy-five dollars a month for eight hours a day and sixteen dollars a week on a three months' trial, adding that if at the end of that time the arrangement did not turn out satisfactorily all around he would not be out anything, as he could return to his seventy-five dollars and twenty-hours. "I would be out six dollars a month or eighteen dollars in all," replied this lightning calculator, but he said he would think it over and in a few weeks he reported for duty. His employment commenced in the early part of January, 1906, and he has been with The Druggists' Circular ever since eight years lacking a few days. We were not disappointed in our man. He has proved as diligent and as well informed a worker as his letter and formulas sent on that "day off" of his, back in 1905, presaged and now he is going away from home to continue his labors in behalf of pharmacy in a new field, and no one wishes him success more heartily than I, and I might include every member of the staff of The Druggists' Circular of which I feel proud to be the general manager.

GEORGE M. BERINGER, Camden, N. J., President of the A. Ph. A.:-Please convey my personal testimony and appreciation of the services of your guest, Mr. Hugh Craig, in behalf of pharmacy.

THOMAS H. POTTS, Chicago, Secretary, of The National Association of Retail

Druggists:-I wish to assure you in all sincerity that I appreciate your timely notice and would regard it as one of the most pleasurable events of my life to attend, if opportunity only afforded. Kindly convey to those assembled my very kindest regards and say to them that I will do my very best to keep our friend Craig out of bad company in Chicago and give him all the helpful assistance in my power, and I well know he is going to make a great success.

Many other communications equally complimentary were received from Mr. Craig's friends and admirers.

The menu card bore, besides the menu, a protrait of the guests and a list of the hosts, as follows:

W. O. Allison, W. C. Anderson, H. V. Arny, L. Berger, G. M. Beringer, C. O. Bigelow, F. J. Budelman, William Bessenschutt, L. Cantor, V. C. Daggett, B. R. Dauscha, L. W. DeZeller, J. Diner, S. W. Fairchild, G. A. Ferguson, J. C. Gallagher, A. Gardner, C. Heimerzheim, F. E. Holliday, C. Holzhauer, J. Hostmann, A. B. Huested, C. R. Johnson, H. Kantrowitz, T. Lamb, T. Latham, J. L. Lascoff, C. N. Lehman, H. C. Lovis, W. A. Mansfield, J. L. Mayer, C. A. Mayo, W. Muench, B. L. Murray, F. L. McCartney, H. M. O'Neil, Romaine Pierson, Albert Plaut, T. F. Raymow, Jacob Rehfuss, G. T. Riefflin, J. Roemer, H. H. Rusby, H. J. Schnell, S. Schoenfeld, S. V. B. Swann, J. R. Wall, J. Weinstein.

The Journal of the N. A. R. D. is to be congratulated on securing the services of Mr. Craig, whose long experience in journalistic work and his practical ability his new position. as a pharmacist will especially fit him for

Caswell A. Mayo.

The President-elect of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Mr. Caswell A. Mayo, of New York City, is perhaps best known to the retail drug trade as the Editor of the American Druggist.

According to the custom of the A. Ph. A., three nominees for president were placed in the field at the Nashville meeting last August and the ballot taken by mail some weeks after the meeting. While the other two candidates were men very popular with the membership and both prominent New York men, Mr. Mayo was honored by the largest number of votes, and will be installed as the President for 1914-15 at the Detroit meeting next summer and will preside over the 1915 convention.

Mr. Mayo has long been active in the affairs of the A. Ph. A. and his efforts in behalf of pharmacy as recorded. in the proceedings of that body and in his editorial work show him to be a man of good judgment, fair and with a broad minded grasp of things pharma

ceutical.

His election to the Presidency of the American Pharmaceutical Association is a fitting reward for services well performed.

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N. W. D. A. Convention.

The proceedings of the thirty-ninth annual convention of the National Wholesale Druggists Association at Jacksonville, Fla., show a vast amount of business transacted and indicate the

healthy condition of this organization. The address of President Plaut reviewed the events of the past year and his pointed comments on the influence which the world's events have on general business and the public welfare, reveal the sound judgment of the writer.

While the wholesaler's problems are different from those of the retailer, the difference is mainly in the size of the proposition and a close scrutiny of the proceedings of the wholesalers' association would have a clarifying effect on the minds of the retailers. A large part of the business of the wholesale druggist touches closely his retail customer and many of the reports of stand

ing committees have to do with relations with the retail trade.

Were it not that space precludes our doing so, we would reprint in full the reports of such committees as those on Credits and Collections, Traveling Salesmen and Selling Methods, Fire Insurance, Legislation, Proprietary Medicines, etc., because our readers would gain much information therefrom which would better enable them to understand the jobbers in their trade relations.

In his address President Plaut recommended that the association endorse the currency legislation then in Congress and which has since been passed; he advocated uniform state laws for the control of the sale of habit-forming drugs; and for food and drugs; the adoption of the metric system; deplored the use of the parcel post in the wholesale drug business on account of the annoyance and extra work it causes, and recommended that jobbers should require their customers to pay all extra charges on this method of transportation which is solely for their convenience.

From the reports of the Board of Control on the various committee reports we abstract the following recommendations and resolutions, which were adopted: that the custom of allowing the expense of long distance telephone calls and freight charges be discontinued; as regards credits, if notes cannot be secured on past due accounts, interest should be charged for overtime on open accounts; discontinue advance dating on over orders; that the individual members lend their influence to prevention of fires in their localities; resolutions were offered by the Board of Control to modifying the postal regulations so as to permit the mailing of medicines to dealers, under proper regulations and

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to retain the variation clause in the food and drugs act; endorse the Harrison Bill; endorse the work of the American Fair Trade League and favor legislation which will permit the manufacturer of trade-marked goods to establish and enforce his prices at wholesale and retail; that Congress be asked to appropriate $100,000 for the Department of Commerce to make an inquiry looking to the establishment of reasonable trade agreements, etc.

The discussions recorded in the proceedings, which are published in full

in the Oil, Paint & Drug Reporter, are very interesting and show that the members of the association are fully awake to the conditions and problems of the trade today and the adoption of the recommendations and resolutions mentioned above will result in much good to the trade in general.

The following officers were elected for the coming year:

George W. Lattimer, Columbus, Ohio, President; F. C. Grover, Jacksonville; C. F. Michaels, San Francisco; Charles E. Potts, Wichita, Kans.; G. S. Fleece, Memphis, Tenn., and C. S. Littelle, New York, Vice Presidents; Joseph L. Toms, New York, Secretary and Samuel E. Strong, Cleveland, Treasurer.

Indianapolis was chosen as the next meeting place and the meeting will be held October, 1914.

It was also decided that the 1915 meeting should be held in California.

No. 325.

Communications.

Please tell me through the Midland columns how to remove stains from ivory piano keys. The stain is probably acid from the red felts above the keyboard. The pianos are flood sufferers.-H. H. J. Answer:

A positive answer to this inquiry is rather difficult as there are several things to consider in such a cleaning process: whether the keys are real or imitation ivory; whether aniline dye was used to color the felt; what remedies have already been applied.

It is very likely that the dye is aniline red, and a search through our library reveals no removers of aniline colors from ivory though we do learn that aniline colors are used to tint ivory articles.

Chromic dioxide is recommended to remove aniline dye stains from the hands, but it is doubtful if it would be the proper thing to apply to ivory.

As a last resort we called up by phone a local music store which cared for a large number of "flood suffering" pianos last spring and they advise us that Spanish whiting and wood alcohol will clean them perfectly. By way of caution we would suggest grain alcohol instead of wood alcohol.

Colleges and Education

Vocational Preparation.

In a recent address, President Butler took a stand against surrendering the old educational ideals and accepting in their place simply bread winning knowledge and skill. Speaking further, he said, "the basis of any true vocational preparation is training to know a few things thoroughly and well, and while gaining such knowledge to form those habits of mind and of will that fit the individual to meet new duties and unforeseen emergencies."

Dr. Butler holds that any sign of letting down the standards of education in favor of premature bread-winning or preparation for breadwinning is rightly a cause for anxiety; "any infatuation with quick returns which interferes with the best all-around training of which the individual is capable is a peril to democracy."

This is pretty plain gospel. It is not exactly in line with some of the educational progressives of the day, but it is not the less assuring and hopeful on that account. We would not contend that anything is better than the usual vocational training, for such is not the case. It is far to be preferred to the grammar and arithmetic education that now absorbs nearly all school effort. There is much in vocational

training that develops the disposition and inherent energy of the pupil and that far it is to be preferred to the intellectual humdrum that has been going on for years and which seems to gain strength through a persistent course of inbreeding.-Ohio State Journal.

Composition Work.

One of the points to be insisted upon by the school survey is more composition work in the schools. This has been sadly neglected and there is nothing in the whole school curriculum that is more important. In fact, a school is a bare formality without it. An efficient teacher can take a small library of a dozen or twenty books, and with the aid of composition work can do more good to a boy or girl than can be done by textbook instruction. This composition experience demands more life, more knowledge, more expression, more originality, more research than can be attained by the present driftwood method of intellectual

education; and the outcome will be more faithful, intelligent, unselfish and efficient citizenship.

All educators know this, and the fact that the school survey is going to rescue composition from the flotsam and jetsam of the schools is evidence of it. The neglect to use this great instrument of education shows the schools have been administered by careless or ignorant people. It is time for reform. It is high time we were removing the stand-pattery of the ruts and getting upon high grounds, that command a view of life and a recognition of its duties.-Editorial Ohio State Journal.

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Ohio State C. P. News.

At this season of the year it is but fitting that the College of Pharmacy extend the greetings of the season to all of its alumni and best wishes for success in the years which are to come.

At times of greatest joy there is sometimes a tinge of sadness which is fully expressed in the lines of the poet, "Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught, Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." We sometimes wonder whether all of us in moments of retrospection ever stop to think that for some measure of our success we owe something to our Alma Mater.

We have heard it said many times that "druggists are the most selfish and self centered people on earth." This statement can scarcely be true, yet, there are some grounds for such an assertion. In our opinion the term "selfish" should rather be supplanted by the term "short sightedness."

What we mean by our transposition of terms is that druggists as a majority are short sighted to their own interests.

Those who have not had the advantages of a college education should think how much greater their success would be had they had these advantages; and they do think in this manner for they are giving their sons and daughters all the advantages of education they can afford.

If the college graduate is not interested in affairs outside of his own little routine, how can it be expected of others? But to come to the point of our argument. If druggists as a whole would take one half of the interest in their associations, national, state and local, that the "hod carriers" do it would revolutionize our business.

Would we suffer from freak legislation particularly, and many other things generally, if we supported our associations and worked

together harmoniously? This is what we mean by the term "short sightedness." Think it over brother pharmacists. When one druggist wakes up like old "Rip Van Winkle", and stretches himself and tries to do something for brother druggists, he is accused at once of doing it for selfish motives. Is this right?

The University Association of Alumni and ex-Students, to which all men who ever studied pharmacy here are eligible, boasts just thirtysix members drawn from the Pharmacy College Why have you not joined this association? Ask yourself this question at the beginning of this New Year.

There are at present two hundred and thirty living who have graduated from the College of Pharmacy. The addresses on file of some of these are so old that even Uncle Sam cannot locate them. This is your fault. A postal card and five minutes time will eradicate this fact.

It certainly looks as if $2.00 per year is a small fee to ask for membership in the Association which gives you an Alumni directory, a copy of "Who's Who" and the Monthly Magazine. The magazine itself is well worth the price of admission.

Once more let us urge you to inform us when you change positions, when you become manager, proprietor, or change your occupation. Let us hear from you and know how you fare. One more suggestion: When you receive notice that your local association will have a meeting, attend it, or if impossible, send a letter to be read to those present so they may know you are alive.

PERSONALS

Leander M. Voegtly, '11, is now with the Hildreth-Churchill Pharmacy of Cleveland. His address is 5611 Euclid Avenue. This man, of all men, has to "make good!" First, the name Leander takes us back to the days of the famous Leander who swam the Hellespont. Next, he came from Hannibal, Ohio. Where in our days of early education have we heard of Hannibal? Now he is working for a firm whose names are famous in modern times: Hildreth of Revolutionary fame and Churchill, the famous novelist. 'cess Leander.

C. O. Ewing, B. Sc., '12, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry, is home from Washington for a few days vacation. He stopped off to see "us" while enroute to the parental rooftree at Carey, Ohio. He reports his work as being interesting. It will be remembered that when he took the civil service examination he made the highest grade of anyone in the state.

Marie Murphy, B. Sc., '13, is pharmacist for F. A. Noles, on West Broad street. She

called upon us the other day and we noticed a sign on one of her fingers which makes us think that perhaps she will desert our chosen calling soon. All we can say is, "congratulations."

From a yellow handbill picked up on a Big Four train this last week we notice that Carl C. Bechtel, '09, and Miss Edith E. Schranty, of Wooster were married recently. To be explicit, the date was Tuesday, December 9th, and the knot was tied by a Canton "sky pilot." That old nickname of Cupid got him into trouble at last. The happy couple will be at home to their friends after January 1st at 1121 West Market street, Orrville, Ohio.

We were the recipients of a foreign prescription, and likewise a "nut to crack" from Osman M. Burke, '13, of Akron, this last week. We appreciate this very much and wish some more of the alumni would send us accounts of prescription difficulties, whether they have solved them or not.

P. E. Shaffer, '13, of Jackson has been doing relief work for Groff & McClintock, Lane and High streets, for a couple of weeks. Mrs. Groff, '94, has been out of town on a vacation.

LeRoy B. Foster, '09, of the U. S. Department of Commerce and Labor in Washington made us a brief call recently.

Kenneth Given, '08, has recently purchased the White Pharmacy on North High street. We feel certain that his success is assured.

M. B. Kauffman, '09, one of the chemists of the Kauffman-Lattimer Company, is wearing a broad smile these days. The second visit of the stork brought them a Christmas present whom they named Mary Christine. Myron has just completed building a fine new home in North Columbus. Another sign that pharmacy has not gone to the "bowwows."

The University Dispensary Service has already proved of great value to the students. Little aches and pains are no longer left until they become something serious, but are attended to at once, for the student figures that he has paid for the medical attention, so why not receive it.

The prescriptions are all filled by the School of Pharmacy, free of charge. Two hundred were filled during the month of November. The beginning of the second semester the senior students will derive the benefit of this practical experience such as cannot usually be obtained outside the best prescription stores in the large cities.

Charles Dillon, who entered this fall with advance credit from Albion, died November 9th of tubercular spinal meningitis. During his short residence here he made many warm friends among students and faculty.

H. C. Eisenman, B. S. (Pharm.) '13, is in the chemical laboratory of The W. S. Merrell Co. of Cincinnati.

F. W. O'Brien, B. S. (Pharm.) '12, research chemist with the Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Michigan, came to Ann Arbor for the Penn football game.

The Prescott Club was very fortunate in obtaining F. L. Shannon, B. S. (Pharm.) '10, Michigan State Analyst, for their November meeting. The subject was "Fakes and Frauds." It was an illustrated talk and of such general interest that more than two hundred people attended.

Professor A. F. Schlichting B. S. (Pharm.) '12, was recently elected President of the Chemistry Club at the North Dakota Agricultural College.

Promananda Das, B. S. (Pharm.) '11, M. S. (Pharm.) '12, was married to Miss Subarna Prablia Dutta, October 6, in. Calcutta, India.

Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.

"The Cultivation of Medicinal Plants" was the subject of an interesting special lecture delivered by Mr. Fred A. Miller at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy on Monday, December 1, 1913.

Dr. Miller said the reason given for the cultivation of medicinal plants was the scarcity of material and the desire to improve the quality of crude vegetable drugs. The chief difficulties encountered in this work are the successful propagation and the procuring of authentic seeds.

Seeds are obtained from various sources, such as, local collectors, Agricultural experiment stations, the waste and offal in large shipments of crude drugs and also from large seed houses.

Weeds are the great evil in raising medicinal plants as well as in other agricultural fields.

Between three and four years of experimental work have been done on Digitalis, Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, and Cannabis Indica. The experimental work consists in chiefly trying different fertilizers and soils and also hybridization. The results on the first three drugs have been very encouraging and real harvests are now in sight. Cannabis indica has also shown the possibility of cultivation.

Mr. Miller concluded the lecture by showing slides of fields in actual cultivation.