The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-16

| iHS C11CCO Clldl ySoISluoy' AV Woo AAA deed red letter day for the nation.
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 Doctors Urged to Offer Services | II N the war preparedness organiza- 0 ton there is a shortage of sur geons. This is not because the doc tors are unmindful or in any wise apathetic. On the contrary it is a we'll established fact that the mem bers of the medical profession are-al- ways at the forefront when it comes to physical courage or self-sacrifice. Physicians are always needed in their home communities, but when the government needs them more they will never be found wanting. And the demand will be more and more in- sistent as the summer advances. One of the most striking addresses heard at the annual meeting of the Ameri- can Medical association held in New York was that by Dr. Franklin II. Martin of Chicago, in which he told of the need of physicians in the army. When it is remembered that four years are required in the making of doctor, it can readily be comprehended what it means to lose number of the medical profession in the trenches. Since the European war started several hundred thousand doctors have been slain. The vacuum is ap palling. There is now a system of conservation that will stand the allies in great stead. The enlisted man the layman-is being taught to give hypodermic injections and do other things usually expected of doctors. In this way army surgeons will be kept back of the firing line and thereby be spared for the more inn portant medical operations.
 Whenever the United States feels it must have more young doctors there will be not a single stacker amongst them.
 Marconi, wearing the uniform of an Italian naval officer, was mistaken for an interned German in Atlanta. Atlanta citizens pride themselves on being great travellers but they haven't knocked about much with the Italian navy
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 Another big girl show said to be the best ever" of it's kind, has begun sum- mer run in New York and the tired busi- ness man from Keokuk who visits the metropolis is assured of getting his mon- ey's worth.
 
 Wartime economies have reduced the size of Paris penny papers to two pages. A movie star would no doubt have hard time getting two-column picture of her self published in one of those newspapers
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 Printing the name of an American com mander whose vessel attacks submarine means that he will probably be shot if he is ever captured. American newspaper men should remember that.
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 MT. Daniels should not get the idea that everybody who criticizes his depart ment is a traitor. On the contrary. some persons who do that may be giving proof of their patriotism.
 Minnesota patriot came very near getting into the army with wooden leg. He must have been examined by a near sighted doctor who was thinking about something else.
 Judging from the warmth of their re- ception, American soldiers in France will have no difficulty in starting a little fiirta- tion with a Parisian beauty.
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 The newspaper that betrays govern ment secrets simply to scoop its con temporaries, may be long on enterprise, but it is short on ethics.
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 Carranza Is reported to be ready to break with Germany. but naturally he wants to see If Uncle Sam will make it worth his while.
 Billy Sunday calls the Germans a "bunch of pretzels. Would that the Prus- sian war lords had as little capacity for evil
 The Kaiser is probably wondering what good his sister will do him as an eX- queen of Greece, residing in Switzerland Jane Addams accepted rebuke for her pacifism. but Emma Goldman will never accept one for her anarchism, * *
 .Paresing," but they all know who he is and what he's there for