Arizona republican., 1918-04-26
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HEARS IF
 WAR WORK ACCOMPL PL|SHED IN STATE

Devoting the first evening of their two days annual session to a consld- eration of the war and of the part the doctors are taking in it, more than 2O0 members of the Arizona State Medical association, in conjunction with the University club and invited friends, men and women, of both, sat down at a Hooverized dinner at 6:30 o'clock last night at the Woman's club. The rom was handsomelyd ecorated with flowers and the national colors.
 At the conclusion of the dinner the association secretary introduced pr. John E. Bacon of Miami who delivered a splendid address on the subject of the Relation of the Physicians of the Country to the War;"
 Dr. Bacon called attention 10 the large number of medical men who al ready had been called into the service and of the many more who VIII De needed when the later calls come. Only the youngest and most enthusiastic doctors should go across the ocean, the speaker said, leaving the older ones 10 care for the greater duties which will remain for those left at home.
 Doctors Go by Thousand
 More than 19,000 doctors already have been drawn from civil life for the army. the doctor stated. In the med ical reserve corps there are 1S,2Il, all of whom except 2,500 are in active duty.
 Arizona, or. Bacon stated, has given S7 doctors to the medical reserve corps Oht of BOT in the state, or practically 2S.3 per cent. No other state in the union which has approached that rec ord, he stated. The making of medl- cal officer out of a country doctor is a complicated process, the speaker stated. but the results, he added, had been surprisingly good. The great es- sential for the men who go to France IS youth and also strength, Dr. Bacon stated. and unless he is in prime phys teal condition he cannot stand the strain of the work with the army. Those doctors, he said, must be con- tent with serving where they will not be a burden. Shipping is too scarce to waste in carrying those doctors to Inc front and then home again.
 Fears For General Health
 That there will be much work for the doctors who are left at home was the statement of the speaker, who declared that there were certain to be epidemics in this country caused by the transient labor carrying disease to difficult parts of the country. He predicted that with in the next few years there will be greater epidemics in this country than ever before.
 The speaker made a plea for scien- tifc vaccination, declaring that any person who opposed it at this crisis of the country was not patriotic.
 Among the things that the medical profession will be called upon to do, fhp gr11lrpr gnfH tuOn1H hp fn for the families of many of the doctors who will never return from France. Already plans are being formed for this work, he declared. He also stated that there is to be a great work in caring for the many detectives as revealed by the medical examinations.
 Among the things the doctors can do to aid in the war are paying income taxes, assisting the Red Cross, the Y M. c A. the Knights of Columbus, buy ing Liberty bonds and in giving profes- sional care to those who will not be able to pay for it, and there will be many more of that class than ever before, he stated.
 Evil Purpose Understood
 Tt would be no compliment to the intelligence of this gathering" said Dr Bacon, ito spend time in a denouncia- tion of the Hun. The evil pupose of the German people is well understood. IT place of that 1 will make this predic- ton; that we will win the war. It may take five years and may require five million men, but Americas prepara- lions are right We will come out of the aftermath @ better people, with new and better conditions and democracy better understood. Despotism will nc longer be tolerated. The political af- fairs of the world will be dominated by those who win this war, and it will bt just as much by thoce who are now al the front as by those who are left a home. The horrible example of wha' socialism has done for Russia will bt noted and needed. The days of grea fortunes are gone. The health of tn, people is to become a great nationa asset State medicine will be an ac. oomplished fact. Let us as doctors gt onward cheerfully to the firing line a he front or the working line at home.
 Work of Defense Council
 The working of the State Council o Defense was described at short lengtl oy D. B. Heard, chairman of the execu tive committee of that council That i is the duty of the council of defense | mobilize the activities of the people s as to back pthe government in tn winning of the war was the statemen of the speaker. Among the things toll by the speaker was the fact that Ari NETszIZTTEz H 1EE3,1Z f,;;Ezzz zZzz71yzISQV zEzzE