The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-05
NEW ARMY LAW is
SCORED BY DOCTORS
Grade OF Medical Department
Cause For 0ffense.
INJURY TO THE SERVICE
PROCEEDINGS OF AMERICAN
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

St Paul, Mimi, June 4-FIfteen
hundred doctors occupied seats. in the
metropolitan opera house when the
convention Of the American Medical
association was called to order today,
and paid close attention to the pro-
ceedings. President Reed read his an
nual address, an abstract of which fol-
lows
THE army TeOrganizat isn law of the
last congress was inexplicable and in
eXcusable. It grades the medical de-
--partment Tor rank. promotion and, in
consequence, for pay below every other
department and special corps Of the
army, and with the exception of. sec
ond lieutenants It is graded below the
line. In accordance with it's pro
visions, a medical officer, TO obtain
times as many trials as an officer of
either the quartermaSter'S the SubSist-
ence or the pay departments; more
than twice as many as an officer of en-
gineers or ordnance. and nearly twice
as many as an officer of. the signal
corps.
The effect Of this discrimination is
not only TO lower the rank and pay of
medical officers. but must result in les
sening the efficiency of the corps by re-
pelling men of spirit and worth. 1t
becomes the duty of every member of
the medical profession jealous Of his
rights. his prerogatiyes and the fair
name he may leave his children, to re-
sent as personal between himself and
every member Of the congress who
voted for this law, the action which
cast a stigma upon our profession.
1t has been the conviction of many
enlightened members of the medical
profession that the means empioved
by the general government for the pro-
lection and promotion of the public
health are capable of Improvement.
The conditions today are precisely the
same as they were ten years ago.
''I proclaim, events proclaim. the ex-
istence of "a new school of medicine It
is as distinct from the schools of fifty
years ago as is the Christian dispen-
sation from its pagan antecedents. It
is the product of cOnvergent indu-
ences. of diverse antecedent origin. 1t
acknowledges no distinctive title, it
heralds no shibboleth.
School of Human Tolerance.
at is a school of human tolerance
and of tolerance, independence, and OF
scientific honesty 1t makes no pro-
clamation of completeness, no preten-
sions to- sufffciency- It recognizes that
truth is undergoing progressive reve-
latiOn, not ending today, but cOntinU-
ing through the ages. 1T agrees as a
friend who thinks, though no think
error, for thinking he may think truth
and thereby add to the common fund.
After the recess DR.. Simmons, secre-
tary of the association. presented a, re-
port showing that the association has
now a. membership of 100000, an in
crease OF over 1851 in the past year.
The report of the board Of trustees
showed total receipts, $131, 787; total ex-
penditures, S11O.735-
This evening was given up to social
recreation and receptions. The divi-
sion in the ranks OF the Association of
American Medical Colleges has been
healed, after lasting for ten years. Har-
mony was secured in the admission of
twelve southern medical colleges, in
creasing the membership to seventy
seven colleges officers of the college
association were elected, including H
p. Ellis. Los Angeles, second vice pres
ideflt, and Thomas Hawkins, Denver,
member of the judicial council. The
new officers OF the American Academy
of Science are: DR.. X. O. Vaughn. Ann
ArbOr. Mich, president; vice presi-
dents: L. Taylor, Wheeiersburg. o.;
w. A n Harland, Philadelphia: S. L.
Ritchie. St Paul NJ. Bert Ellis, Los
Angeles secretary, Charles Mcintyre,
EastOn, Pa.