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One Voice for Pharmacists
1916-'19 style
one voice for pharmacists
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September 1916 What is the advantage of a comprehensive, well-ordered organization? What is the advantage accruing from the union of these United States? Such unions are not merely advantageous, they are an absolute necessity. Every reason that has ever been offered for the confederation of the states of this union may be offered for the confederation of the state pharmaceutical associations and these reasons so far outweigh any little interest tha t a delegate representing any other kind of organi zation may have, that it is scarcely believable that any opposition will come from this source ... . -Chairman's address, House of Delegates, H.P. Hynson
September 1917 Pharmacists constitute a social group; a group of no mean im portance in the social fabric. I like to speak of this social group as the body-pharmaceutic, because that is an inclusive term embracing all those who a re in any way identified with pharmacy either as educators, practitioners, manufacturers, distributors, etc. All are definitely related to each other. T his relationship is not sufficiently recognized and is not adequately represented and expressed in pharmaceutical organization. In the past we have failed to recognize stdficiently the interrelation and interdependence of the divisions of the bodypharmaceutic and hence each division has organized itself f or the furtherance of its own domestic interests, thus emphasizing too greatly lines of division which seem more apparent than they really are. It was and is proper and beneficial that these divisions be represented by separate organizations, but the desirability and necessity of organizational bonds to unite them into a larger whole has thus f ar been overlooked . Each of our pharmaceutical associa tions regards itself as a complete whole when in reality each is only a pa rt or division of the whole. When our ori ginal 13 colonies declared their independence, each regarded itself as a sovereign state. The wiser of the fa thers of that time soon realized how futile and foolish that idea was. . .. Only in pooling their destinies and in a political union could they secure a nd maintain their existence. But for their union there would probably be no American nation today. What the union has accomplished no single state could have achieved. I venture to present to you this example as one meriting the emulation of our several pharmaceutical organizations and I most earnestly recommend for your serious consideration the advantages of an affiliation of all national, state, county and local associations into a union or f ederation. The advantages of such a union a re so obviou s and apparent that I think I need not take the space and time t o discuss them. -Address of APhA president Frederick J. Wulling
August 1918 vVe propose to accomplish, by federating all national and state pharmaceutical associations into one large association, th e following important things : 1. A largely increased representative membership repre-
senting practically all those interested in and engaged in pharmacy in all its branches . ... 2. Uni ty of purpose and action in all matters pertaining to legislation, education, publicity, ethics, standards, meU,r· ds, economics, and efficiency in pharmacy. 752
Jo urnal of the
AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION
3. Real service to all pharmacists in the matter of a real leading journal and of permanent management and activity by competent well-paid men in laboratory work, legal advice and protection, expert advice, employees, trade marks and patents, exchange of unsalable goods, support and backing when unjustly attacked in press or court .... 4. A gradual elevation of the quality of those who enter the profeSSion by a unanimous decision so to do .. . . 5. Increased prosperity for the individual members ...• T he state associations will be integral parts of the federation, and membership in the federated association will entail membership in the state association. -Address of APhA president A.R.L. Dohme
November 1919 At the recent Rochester meeting of the National Association of Retail Druggists, the executive committee reported on the subject of "Federated Pharmacy, " as follows: Your executive committee has given a lot of thought to the proposition as presented by the American Pharmaceutical Association, for whom we have the highest respect, but we could not see our way clear to approve of their proposition. The more we studied it, the more it seemed to us that we would be working at a decided disadvantage if we accepted the proposition as laid down by their committee . Their idea is a splendid one but we fail to see how it can ever work out to advantage, particularly along the lines as suggested. We believe that in the National Drug Trade Conference we now have the nucleus of an organization which can do everything that the proposed federation of pharmacy had in mind to do, but perhaps in a little different way .... If the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION cann ot realize its vision of a federated pharmacy, let us have, by all means, the closest possible co-operation, and not only between APHA and NARD , but also, with the state associations and with the national wholesale and manufacturing organizations, each caring for its own particula r interests, in its own way, but each acting in harmony with the other bodies by means of conference committees ... . The National Drug Trade Conference is a conference of co-operative committees of national pharmaceutical organizations to consider "drug trade" interests of national and general importance, including legislation . . . . It does not exist apparently for any other purpose. Its title, the National Drug Trade Conference, signifies this, also. A nd being a trade body, i t cannot represent professional or scientific interests, which are represented by other organizations. But why not apply the principle of national co-operation, not only along trade and legislative lines, as represented by the National Drug Trade Conference, but also, between the national pharmaceutical organi zations along professional and scientific lines, by having co-operative committees form each organi zation , and by making the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION the clearing house for action on professional and scientific pharmaceutical questions? The chief function of all the national pharmaceutical bodies, except the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL .'\SSOCIATION, the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties and the ational Association of Boards of Pharmacy , is along trade lines; and these trade bodies are very deeply concerned in the growth and development of the sciences and art of pharmacy, in fact, the trade-success of their members depends upon it. -If Not Federation, Why Not Closer Co-operation?
(editorial)
one voice for pharmacists
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September 1916 What is the advantage of a comprehensive, well-ordered organization? What is the advantage accruing from the union of these United States? Such unions are not merely advantageous, they are an absolute necessity. Every reason that has ever been offered for the confederation of the states of this union may be offered for the confederation of the state pharmaceutical associations and these reasons so far outweigh any little interest tha t a delegate representing any other kind of organi zation may have, that it is scarcely believable that any opposition will come from this source ... . -Chairman's address, House of Delegates, H.P. Hynson
September 1917 Pharmacists constitute a social group; a group of no mean im portance in the social fabric. I like to speak of this social group as the body-pharmaceutic, because that is an inclusive term embracing all those who a re in any way identified with pharmacy either as educators, practitioners, manufacturers, distributors, etc. All are definitely related to each other. T his relationship is not sufficiently recognized and is not adequately represented and expressed in pharmaceutical organization. In the past we have failed to recognize stdficiently the interrelation and interdependence of the divisions of the bodypharmaceutic and hence each division has organized itself f or the furtherance of its own domestic interests, thus emphasizing too greatly lines of division which seem more apparent than they really are. It was and is proper and beneficial that these divisions be represented by separate organizations, but the desirability and necessity of organizational bonds to unite them into a larger whole has thus f ar been overlooked . Each of our pharmaceutical associa tions regards itself as a complete whole when in reality each is only a pa rt or division of the whole. When our ori ginal 13 colonies declared their independence, each regarded itself as a sovereign state. The wiser of the fa thers of that time soon realized how futile and foolish that idea was. . .. Only in pooling their destinies and in a political union could they secure a nd maintain their existence. But for their union there would probably be no American nation today. What the union has accomplished no single state could have achieved. I venture to present to you this example as one meriting the emulation of our several pharmaceutical organizations and I most earnestly recommend for your serious consideration the advantages of an affiliation of all national, state, county and local associations into a union or f ederation. The advantages of such a union a re so obviou s and apparent that I think I need not take the space and time t o discuss them. -Address of APhA president Frederick J. Wulling
August 1918 vVe propose to accomplish, by federating all national and state pharmaceutical associations into one large association, th e following important things : 1. A largely increased representative membership repre-
senting practically all those interested in and engaged in pharmacy in all its branches . ... 2. Uni ty of purpose and action in all matters pertaining to legislation, education, publicity, ethics, standards, meU,r· ds, economics, and efficiency in pharmacy. 752
Jo urnal of the
AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION
3. Real service to all pharmacists in the matter of a real leading journal and of permanent management and activity by competent well-paid men in laboratory work, legal advice and protection, expert advice, employees, trade marks and patents, exchange of unsalable goods, support and backing when unjustly attacked in press or court .... 4. A gradual elevation of the quality of those who enter the profeSSion by a unanimous decision so to do .. . . 5. Increased prosperity for the individual members ...• T he state associations will be integral parts of the federation, and membership in the federated association will entail membership in the state association. -Address of APhA president A.R.L. Dohme
November 1919 At the recent Rochester meeting of the National Association of Retail Druggists, the executive committee reported on the subject of "Federated Pharmacy, " as follows: Your executive committee has given a lot of thought to the proposition as presented by the American Pharmaceutical Association, for whom we have the highest respect, but we could not see our way clear to approve of their proposition. The more we studied it, the more it seemed to us that we would be working at a decided disadvantage if we accepted the proposition as laid down by their committee . Their idea is a splendid one but we fail to see how it can ever work out to advantage, particularly along the lines as suggested. We believe that in the National Drug Trade Conference we now have the nucleus of an organization which can do everything that the proposed federation of pharmacy had in mind to do, but perhaps in a little different way .... If the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION cann ot realize its vision of a federated pharmacy, let us have, by all means, the closest possible co-operation, and not only between APHA and NARD , but also, with the state associations and with the national wholesale and manufacturing organizations, each caring for its own particula r interests, in its own way, but each acting in harmony with the other bodies by means of conference committees ... . The National Drug Trade Conference is a conference of co-operative committees of national pharmaceutical organizations to consider "drug trade" interests of national and general importance, including legislation . . . . It does not exist apparently for any other purpose. Its title, the National Drug Trade Conference, signifies this, also. A nd being a trade body, i t cannot represent professional or scientific interests, which are represented by other organizations. But why not apply the principle of national co-operation, not only along trade and legislative lines, as represented by the National Drug Trade Conference, but also, between the national pharmaceutical organi zations along professional and scientific lines, by having co-operative committees form each organi zation , and by making the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION the clearing house for action on professional and scientific pharmaceutical questions? The chief function of all the national pharmaceutical bodies, except the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL .'\SSOCIATION, the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties and the ational Association of Boards of Pharmacy , is along trade lines; and these trade bodies are very deeply concerned in the growth and development of the sciences and art of pharmacy, in fact, the trade-success of their members depends upon it. -If Not Federation, Why Not Closer Co-operation?
(editorial)