The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-12-14
COLLEGE ALUMNI
Win THEIR WAY
INTO SOME OF THE BEST POSI-.
TiONS IN GOVERNMENT
SERVICE
NEWS OF THE week FROM COLLEGE
Or. Moore Tells of the Opportunities
for Young Men In the Field Of
Veterinary Medicine

Apout twenty-five OF the graduates
of the State College are working for
Uncle Sam in the government service,
chiefly as employees in the forestry,
agricultural, and engineering depart
ments at entrance salaries averaging
seventeen or eighteen hundred dol
lars per year.
Martin Ericsson, Of the class Of OF,
is chief forester of the Olympus For
est Reserve. He has charge of the
work in refoestation and the protec-
ton of the forests in his reserve.
Henry Ramsey has an important po-
sition in the Fruit Transportation d.
partment. He travels from California
to Florida and experiments on moth.
ing but the best means of shipping
fruit. His salary is about twenty.
four hundred a year.. Since the pas
sage of the Food and Drug acts of
1906, Uncle Sam has needed a good
many inspectors and Grant Morton
is among the top-notchers.
E. C. Chilcott, chief of Dry farming
for the United States, won his spurs
through merit alone. He is a plea
SAINT genial greyeyed man whose
word is authority and who is doing
a magnificent work for the develope-
ment of our arid regions. He has,
from the alumni Of the s.. d. s. c.
able li%eutenants in John Cole, Oliver
Grace, A. c. Dillman, Cecil Salmon
and Oscar Mathews. These men are
more chiefly concerned with the dry
land farming and drought resisting
crops in South Dakota han elsewhere,
and they have demonstrated over and
again that good crops can be raised
even in a region of scant rainfall IL
right methods are pursued.
The S. d. S. c.. has a right to be
proud Of her graduates who are in
the government service and who have
demonstrated that it is not necessary
to ego east" in order to succeed.
ut is not true that veterinary medi-
cine offers no opportunity for young
men of today" says DR.. E.. l.. Moore
head Of the veterinary department of
the State College. An open door is
assured to all who wish to enter the
field Of the veterinarian because Of
the increased value Of stock n the
ahcapno re oomnafitiop Tho huraou
of animal h%usDandry is constantly de-
handing men to carry on the inspec-
ton and quarantine work, while the
states are seeking men who are fitted
to control contagious diseases and to
find means by experimentation to do
away as much as possible with these
diseases. The serum work that is
being carried on at the State College
is but a practical example of this.
Municipal authorities require men
to inspect food, diaries and milk sta
tions. Although this does not fall
directly to the veterinarian it is I'M
der the direct supervision of his de-
partment. Another source of work
is the army. The practitioner ranks
as a commissioned officer and the
foreign work with its salary is allur-
ing to the young man. Appointments
in the service are fast falling under
the civil service commission which
considers ones personality and gen.
eral education which goes to contri-
butte a doctors degree.
In the past ten years instruction
and experimental work along the lines
Of veterinary medicine has broadened
in many ways and the entrance re-
quirements to institutions have been
raised at least fifty per cent in the
last five years. There has been a
notable increase in the number Of
departments created by the govern
ment, a closer relationship exists be-
tween state boards and institutions
which tends towards cooperation. The
lack OF sufficient finances Is felt In
the promotion Of this profession in
state institutions. The government
wants men who have graduated from
accredited institutions and in order to
be an accredited school in veterinary
medicine there must be at least four
OF the faculty who have themselves
graduated from an accredited veter.