โ Scribed by Cook, Roy Bird
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To the Members of the House of Delegates of the Americun Pharmaceutical Association: I t is with no small degree of interest, and with the hope of much profit to be gleaned therefrom, that the House of Delegates of our great national organization, devoted to the ideals of pharmacy, is called to order. That the delegates assembled are welcomed to the eighty-fourth annual convention is not only taken for granted but is evidenced by the signs of hospitality on every side in this splendid city of Dallas, so many years "young" and yet so many years "old" in achievement. We need not look far about us to see wide expression, on every hand, of pride among the citizens of this great state in the hundred years of history just passing, so splendidly set forth in the series of Centennial celebrations throughout the state, and more especially in the city in which we are now assembled. And certainly there is no need on my part to here publicly state that each and every one of our great body, brought together from a sense of fellowship and pride in our profession, feel an equal pride in the achievements of this great state. Our homelands harbor no jealousies and no regret at what the hundred years from 1836 to 1936 have brought to Texas and her people. Strange as it may seem, as we look about us, we nieet in a land of romance. A land that has pages of history reaching back to the earliest explorer of our soil, and a land that has fought, lived and continues to live, under the Stars and Stripes, but having in its time served under six flags. It was once a colony of two great nations, part of Mexico, an independent Republic and a commonwealth in two Republics. To this state and her citizens the eighty-four years "young" AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION extends greetings. To this state and her fifty-seven years "young" State Association, we extend the hands of fellowship, and congratulations, as well as thanks, for many years of loyal coaperation. This is the first time in the history of our organization that we have met in Texas, but it can be asserted that the meeting will close with regret at the hour of parting.
Chairman Costello, in 1931, asserted before this body that we are "members of a great profession devoted to the service of humanity," made a strong plea for unity and observed that there "must be cooperation." Chairman Jones, in 1935, made the significant statement that "as the age of our organization increases our problems increase in more than direct ratio." While Robert L. Swain remarks that "every-
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