The Washington herald., 1917-03-29
Army and Navy News
Best Service Column In City.

At a meeting in the hall of the Academy
of Medicine In New York City a move
ment was started to organize an energetic
recruiting campaign to add % 600 physi-
clans to the Medical Offlcers' Reserve
Corps. The meeting was called by the
Auxiliary Medical Committee for Ma
tional Defense.
A resolution was adopted to appoint a
committee OF ten to study the schemes
in use in England and France under which
the practice of physicians who enter mill
tary or naval service is taken over in
their absence by physicians who remain
in civil life and returned intact when the
military and naval physicians are mus
tered out of service.
It was announced that applicants for
the corps should present themselves from
now on at the Academy OF Medicine, II
West Forty-third street, where their
qualifications would be examined under
the direction of DIR. Henry c. Coe. presi-
dent of the Medical Reserve Corps.
1t was declared that the military and
naval medical service offered exceptional
opportunities for young physicians to
make a career and reputation, because
of the variety of experience and the new
problems constantly put before them.
Many of the great names in medicine in
recent years, it was declared by Medical
Inspector George A Lung, OF the navy.
and Col. F. NJ Hartsock, OF the Army
Medical Corps, had been made in Cuba,
the Philippines, China, the Panama Canal
Zone and other fields OF foreign service
in which medical officers OF the navy
had acted as missionaries of modern
civilization.
Inspector Lung said that within the last
year another great chapter had been
added to the achievements OF the medical
men of the navy in the improvement OF
sanitary conditions and the conquest OF
! disease in Santo Domingo and Haiti. DR..
! Coe who urged the necessity OF speed in
recruiting medical men, has received
letter from the United States Surgeon
General Of which the following is part:
I'm regard to the size of the reserve,
we must have a very large number of Of
1cers for each thousand men under arms.
Should we enter war and mobilize mil
lion men We should be under the neces-
sity of providing 10000 medical onicers. "
Glasses to teach simple open-air cook
ing, on a large scale, such as Is required
by the army, have been formed at the
Young Women's Christian Association
! and the Teachers College, in New York
| City, and. as a result. residents Of New
York soon will see groups of women
demonstrating this sort Of cooking in
| Van Cortlandt Park and other big open
| places in the city.
At the New York Y. W. c. A. Central
! Branch in East Fifteenth street there are
| to be ten classes of ten girls each At
| Teachers College there is one class of
| thirty.
Registration OF women anxious to serve
Uncle Sam goes on at the New York City
| Woman Suffrage party. Mrs. John
| Humphrey Watkins chairman of Man.
| haitian, has offered her farm of 100 acres.
| near Mount Kisco, for the raising OF
crops for government need. Mrs. Theo-
dore c. Hall offers Brook Farm. five
acres, for the same purpose, and the
house and barn she will donate as a home
| for convalescents. for the children OF
| soldiers or whatever may be needed
Miss Dana Elizabeth Isaacs was another
signer. She is at the head Of the COM
missariat of a large factory in New York
with 500 girls to feed.