Arizona republican., 1921-10-15
WHY DRUG CLERKS GO WRONG

| To the editor:
 l Every little vile l get in a bunch where the boys is talking about foot i ball and what is the matter with Yale and etc, and of course I half | to put in wd. or and finely some | body asks me what college did I | tend and I half to admit that l i didn't tend no college and then every body kinds of sniffs and from that 1 time on they don't pay no tension l to what I got to say.
 l Well friends I suppose they's a few amongst my readers that is in the same boat like I am and can't boast | of no alma mater so maybe these i few will be gratified if l take up the i cudgels in behalf of the non colleg, man and state few incidence where young man has spent or yrs. of ! their life and a whole lot of money | to get a college degree and now it's pretty near as much use to them as thirst for beer. Like for inst. the | other night we was playing bridge i- what I sometimes call my home and 1 | of the players was man that had studied electric engineering for 4 yrs. and vile we was playing it be- gin to sprinkle out doors so pretty soon all the electric lights in Great Neck had a sinking spell and finely l died. We'll the rest of us past a few iokeing remarks about it and l after or 10 minutes somebody asked
 what was we going to do and the electric engineer cleared his throat and says:
 Haven't you got no candles fin the house?"
 Well friends. that is just a sample of how much good this birds educa- tion done him in a big crisis like the above, but what 1 started out to tell you about was a young friend of mine that had always been interest ed in chemicals when he was a kid and had a laboratory in his house
 and was always monking with acids
 and etc. and finely when it come
 time for him to go to college he in-
 sisted on taking a pharmacy which is
 the same thing like a drug store course, as that was his hobby and
 besides theys suppose to be a whole
 lot of profits in the drug business so he took or 4 yrs. of it and come out register pharmist and his old
 man decided he better work in a drug
 store a vile before he started him in
 a store of his own.
 A Sad Tale
 So the day before the kid went to
 work he was nervous and scared for
 the fear somebody would bring in a ] DtI SUI lItAbll that lAE Nb1ANAA AGelu II right or something, and he might
 give them a fatal doze of poison, but
 the next time I seen him I asked
 him was he getting along O. K. with
 the prescriptions and at 1st. he give
 me a kind of a sad smile and then
 his voice broke so I asked him what
 was the matter and finely he says he
 had quit the business and I asked him why and he says because he ! -ns g.E g7., cation.
 Well friends, I got his story out
 of him and here it is. He spent tho 1st day overlooking the stock and , the next day the prop. went out and
 left him alone on the job and pretty soon in come a lady and he asked hel
 what could he do for her, madam
 expecting her to pull out a code let ter from some Dr.. but she says: , Could you cash me a check fol . S2.O0 as I haven't time to go to tn, . bank and my husband forgot to leave
 me any money"
 , So he cashed the check and an.
 other lady come in and bought ; I telephone slug and sine was in thu booth about 15 minutes and finell come out and told him the peopl, she was trying to call up had moved
 and she had got a hold of somebod! n ! else that lived where the people Sh % wanted use to live and the gir g wouldn't give her back the clug s n would he give her back her nickel s So he give her back her nickel - and then ? gals come in and one Q , them wanted a maple nut parfai 6 and the other asked for a garli Q crush and they had to tell him hoy ' 10 make them and then another lad ,. come in and wanted a book whic' Q she had forgot the name of it but 1. was either by Mary Roberts Rine
 hart or Zane Grey or II. c. Wells.