The Washington herald., 1917-02-13
Army and Navy News
Best Service Column 9. city.

How every port city In the United
States, and other cities, can aid our
greater navy in the event of hostilities
Is told in an authoritative article by
William Harper Dean In the February
Red Cross Magazine Mr.. Dean got his
facts from the highest medical authorities
in the Navy Department. He says in
part:
Are you a practicing physician or
surgeon? Then you can Join the Navy's
Medical Reserve Corps, volunteering now
TO serve when your country needs you.
Are YOU connected with a civilian
hospital situated on or near the coast7
Then you can begin movement to make
your hospital available for the needs
of the navy in time of stress.
Are you an intern, assistant, or other
wise an active factor in the practice Of
medicine or surgery? Then you can write
to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,
Navy Department, Washington, volun-
teering now your service in such capacity
in time of war.
Are YOU one of the millions who
are not trained in these special lines?
Then you can help the Red Cross estab-
lish base hospitals on our coasts equip
hospital ships, and in hundred other
ways strengthen the preparedness of our
greater navy.
Surgeons in the Bureau of Medicine
and Surgery of the Navy Department tell
me that one of the greatest needs OF
this Bureau Is men-more men. 1t needs
trained. efficient surgeons and physicians
for its Medical Reserve Corps. And here
Is a field of service In the greater navy
where the individual rather than or
ganized units stand to the fore.
This reserve today is pathetically
III honestly believe, the medical and
surgical profession in civil life is not
thoroughly aware of the fact that
even in civil life they can render great
aid to their navy simply by indicat-
ing now their willingness to serve 1t
in time of war.
should war come tomorrow these
men would forsake their practice and
offer themselves bodily to the navy.
But in this moment OF unpreparedness
they can make surgical and medical
preparedness in the greater navy
i double strong by filling up the ranks
of this reserve. The Navy Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery. Washington.
requires little more of such volunteers
than a simple statement OF willing
ness to serve in the hour of need.
Small though this reserve is, its exist
ence is one of the greatest sources of
pride of the whole navy.
America has one hospital ship, one
more in the making. She needs more
of these ships, more base hospitals
along the coast, more men trained in
medicine and surgery to enlist for
regular service and to fill up the Med
ical Reserve Corps of the navy. NOR g
nurses The Red Cross has enrolled
thus far a reserve force of more than
1000 carefully selected trained nurses.
for the army and navy combined.
Those of US who favored adequate
naval preparedness and who contribut-
ed to It's consummation in any way
whatever have yet another patriotic
duty to face: the noble task Of pre-
pairing for the humanitarian side of
the business of war"
More than 200 physicians all over the
United States have applied for enroll
ment in the Medical Officers Reserve
Corps of the army since the diplomatic
break with Germany, the War Depart
ment announced yesterday. 1t is planned
to have only perfunctory examination re-
quirements and probably all will be placed
on the roster.
Maj. James r. Sans, Of the Second
Kentucky Infantry, was yesterday dis
missed from the army as the result OF a
court-martiaI at FL Paso, where he was
found guilty of conduct unbecoming an
officer and a gentleman.
Recruiting for the navy during the first
third of this month showed a net gain of
800 over the same period last year. Sec
retary of the Navy Daniels announced
yesterday afternoon. At this rate of in
crease, the navy will, in short time.
have no fear of handicap through lack
of men, it was stated.