The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-31
KANSAS DRUGGISTS.
Address by President F. A.
Snow, of Topeka.

The Kansas Pharmaceutical associa-
ton met this week at Wichita at the
same time with the Republican state
convention. It accordingly did not re-
ceive the prompt attention it deserved.
There were 1877 members present.
The present session of the Kansas
Pharmaceutical association opened with
1877 members registered.
President F. A. Snow of Topeka held
the gavel. Rev. J. D. Ritchey delivered
the invocation. and was followed by
Paul Brown of Wichita, who WELDON ed
the druggists cordially.
The welcoming speech was responded
to by NJ. S. ingalls, of Halstead.
The president, F. A. Snow delivered
the annual address. He said:
PRESIDENT SHOWS ADDRESS.
Ladies and Gentlemen, and Members
| of the Kansas State Pharmaceutical
Association: 1t is with great pleasure
| that I greet you at this twenty third
annual meeting of our association We
are very happy to be invited to come to
this beautiful and hOspita,ble city for
| this meeting and the anticipation of the
/ delightful and profitable time we are
/ to have here has been the one bright
spot to which we have looked for the
| last twelve months-and we will not
/ be disappointed.
| Another prosperous year has passed
! since our last meeting and with it we
/ cannot but notice the advancements
/ that have been made in pharmacy. Let
/
| last few years of the past century, now
/ gone into history; what can we do at
| this time, and what does the new cen
fury hold in store for US? AS I review
| the past, I see prosperity for this as
/ ISOLATION, its officers and members
| Each day brings US nearer a profession
| al life and recognition by the world at
| large But one thing an not so sure
OF: Are We as an association doing
| much to elevate pharmacy and educate
| the people? We have made some ad
vances. Less than twenty five years
/ ago anyone wishing to dispense drugs,
! chemicals, poisons, or to compound
| prescriptions could do so lawfully, re-
! CARELESS of fitness or qualification. We
| had then no laws or regulations in this
| regard, and the people had no protec-
ton whatever against incompetency.
They simply had to assume all the
risks. These were the conditions exist
ing in our state when the State Phar-
maceutical associat ton was organized
and undertook state legislation. The
first act was the passage of our phar
macy laws which have been the means
OF placing the drug business in the
hands of persons of required quaHfca-
lions and fitness; the second was the
establishment of a pharmacy depart
ment in connection with the University
of Kansas, at Lawrence, where the best
Of pharmaceutical training can be OBJ
tanned
Now it may seem that after having
secured state pharn acy laws, a board
OF pharmacy ana a pharmacy ScQOO1,
o rulabors are finished. But, my brothers,
our work is never done; it is hardly be-
gun. AS our profession grows and
opens out into fuller bloom, new diff
culties beset US, in proportion as they
did in our professional infancy. The
principal one of these new dangers now
confronting US is the devouring Of
profits by large pharmaceutical special
ty houses and proprietary establish
ments who compel US to be under their
directiOn-mere distributing agents for
their Wares-at a small profit, and in
competition with department stores and
cut rate houses. who sell at almost cost
and in enormous quantities in order to
draw trade to their other lines. Thanks
to that grand organization, the n. A.
r. d, this danger is aVerted to some
extent. This Organization came to US
at the proper time, when the hours
seemed the darkest and the future the
least hopeful; but we will hear more
concerning the n. A. r. D., and hope
to receive a report from the delegation
appointed to go to Buffalo last year.
Were it not for the progress n ade
by scientific pharmacy the dispensing
Of drugs and medicines today would
simply be a trade The American
Pharmaceutical association has been
for nearly fifty years diffusing scien-
tific knowledge among the pharmacists
of this country. It's roll has contained
the names of the most scientific and
practical men of our profession, Some
of them having a world wide reputa-
!
better way of thanking this association
70 rwhat they have done than to make
application for membership before their
annual meeting.
After recently visiting our school at
Lawrence and seeing the new building
that was erected there, and now practi-
cally completed for the use of the phar-
macy and chemistry department I do
not feel that am equal to the task OF
making recommendations for this
branch. While the furnishings are not
all that are needed or to be desired we
find from personal talk with the profess
sors and instructors that they are very
much handicapped by not having sufft-
cient help or means to secure it. This
school is our base of scientific investiga-
| ton for the state of Kansas, and it does
seem that annual appropriation
should be made for the expenses neces-
sary in procuring adequate help for sci
entific research and investigation In re-
cent correspondence received from Prof
Sayre learn the following, which viii
no doubt give the members better
idea of the needs than 1 can otherwise
give: The one thing now needed in oui
school is an increase in Instruction.
1 force. Only three instructors are now
giving all the instruction and laboratory
Superintendent in the classes in phar-
macy and the pharmaceutical work II
the medical school. Mr. Sterling assists