The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-10
Chicago "Win the War" Con-
yention of Great Character.
Out of $4,000 in O. s., 5000 Are
Now in Service.
ARMY OFFICERS ON PROGRAM
Wonders of Plastic Surgery
Demonstrated at Meeting.
Maj. Gen. Gorgas a Speaker
Dedicate Statue DR.. Black.

Chicago, Aug. 1o.-Six thousand of
| the $4,000 dentists in American are in
active military service and 10000 of
those remaining at home are members
i of the Preparedness league and have
performed more than 100000 dental
operations free of charge to permit
young men to pass strict military ex-
aminations.
association from all parts of the coun-
try who gait cred here Thu week for
a big win the war" convention, re-
viewed plans discussed for extending
further aid to the government. Ten
thousand delegates attended.
A series of dental clinics have been
held, experts also gave especial atten-
| ton to pyorrhea and focal infection,
! the two teeth diseases mostly feared
| by the public, and steps will be taken
! to impress upon young men the ad-
visibility of consulting dentists before
entering military service and thus re-
lieving the great strain on the army
and navy dental corps
Dentists War Work.
Then there was taken UP the art of
plastic surgery, which was developed
by the dentists to meet conditions
brought on by trench warfare. Start
ling results achieved in restoring
health and making normal the appear
ance of men suffering serious face
wounds, by means of Plato surgery
have given the dentists a new dis
tinction.
Recognition of the Importance of
the dentists work has led the military
authorities to place members of the
profession in the service on a fun
equality with other members of the
medical corps and for the first time
the dentist, as well as the medical
man, is eligible to a commission as
high as colonel.
They Helped Canuclxs.
The splendid response OF the Aneri-
antedates Americas entrance into the
conflict. The Preparedness league,
founded and headed by DR.. ]. w.
Beach, New York. was the outgrowth
of voluntary aid extended by group
of New York state dentists to
Canadian dentists These Americans
crossed into Canada and contributed
their services, when the Canadian
dental corps was having difficulty
meeting the great-demands upon it.
Thousands of members OF the Pre-
paredness league now are devoting
part of their time to the work OF pre-
pairing men for military service. They
estimate the number of free dental
operations will reach the million mark
before the first of the year.
Every Member Pledged.
The Psi Omega, leading dental fra
ternity, has pledged every one of its
10000 members to extend free serv-
| ices to aid prospective soldiers in get
ting into uniforms. DR.. D. U. Cam
eron, Chicago, has arranged for a big
| loyalty banquet on the opening day
at which a Psi Omega service flag
| bearing 1907 stars will be unfurled.
| The National associations service
! flag, bearing 5000 stars, was unfurled
| the opening day.
| DR.. Newell Dwight Hills and Lieut..
Vasile Stoica of the Rumanian army
were the chief speakers at big pa
| triotic meeting August Z, over which
| Col. William H. G. Logan, Chicago,
president of the National association,
presided.
General Gorgas Spoke.
Important Changes in the Medical
| Department of the Army was the
subject of an address by Maj. Gen.
William c. Gorgas, surgeon general
OF the army.
| A bronze statue of the late DR..
Greene Vardiman Black of Chicago,
one of the great pioneers of dental re-
search. which is life size and stands in
| Lincoln pa.k, was unveiled on Aug
ust 8. Thousands of American dem
lists contributed to the fund with
which the monument was constructed.