save the acclaim of their own big hearts and professional consciences. To them also we owe a debt of gratitude it is well to remember at this time.

But now that our war doctors are home again, the public will be benefited by the added skill and experience they have gained on the fighting line and in many a ward full of hideously wounded comrades, and men shell-shocked, gassed or suffering from the exposures and hardships of their service in trench, field and the mud and cold of the battle zone.

It is quite proper to feast them now, because, once in harness again, there will be few dinners at home or elsewhere to which they can sit down in peace and quietness.

So let us never forget the debt we owe to the kind friend, helper, often rescuer, and always good counselor, our family doctor. Coincidentally, let us remember the debt the country owes his profession for its great achievement in saving so many of the lives of our soldier boys who, without its aid, today would be lost to us."

The world should not be allowed to forget.

THE FUTURE WORK OF THE RED CROSS

Before Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turkey, left this country to assist Henry P. Danson in arranging for the convention of the International Red Cross, to be held at Geneva, Switzerland, thirty days after peace is signed, he had this to say of the future of the Red Cross:

"The Red Cross, in the new and more splendid character which has come to it through its service in the great war, is the medium, I believe, through which all true lovers of mankind may aid in making the world a better place to live in.

"It is perhaps too early at this time to attempt to define specifically the

functions of the proposed organization. In a general way, however, it may be said that all questions affecting human welfare should come within its province. Questions of health will, of course, be an important feature of the program. What, in other words, our Rockefeller Foundation has attempted to do in an experimental way, an international organization should do on an infinitely larger scale. With its unlimited resources and its millions of members in every civilized country on earth, the prospects of this instrument in promoting the welfare of the world are beyond estimation. It will be an organization for morality and samaritanism and it is hoped it will attract to its support the best altruistic thought and leadership of the world. Our rich people are beginning to realize that they are not to be permitted to retain extreme wealth. Besides, people of good heart and large vision are beginning to realize the medium through which they may serve the world, may aid the millions of their fellowmen who are still in barbarism, who suffer the extremes of poverty and ignorance, and who in darkness still await the light."

Mr. Morgenthau said that the new organization proposes to assist the peoples in a material way by providing agricultural implements in, populous countries where present methods are archaic and inadequate. Teachers of agriculture will be sent to peoples who are most backward in knowledge of modern scientific methods.

A party of American specialists, among them eminent physicians, also sailed on the Leviathan to assist Mr. Davison in strengthening Red Cross activities.

The American experts will meet with others from allied countries in a preliminary conference at Cannes, France. Dr. Livingston Farrand, head of the American Red Cross, has already sailed for France to participate in this conference. It is proposed at this conference to formulate a health program which will be considered at the great convention at Geneva.

The preliminaries of the convention have already been mapped out by the committee of which Mr. Davison is the head, his work as Chairman of the American Red Cross War Council having terminated on March 1st, when the War Council retired.

Among those in the party will be Dr. L. Emmett Holt of New York, the specialist on child health; Dr. Wm. Η. Welch, Director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health established by the Rockefeller Foundation of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Dr. E. R. Baldwin of Saranac Lake, N. Y.; Dr. Samuel M. Hamill of Philadelphia; Dr. F. B. Talbot of Boston, Dr. Wycliffe Rose, Dr. Herman M. Biggs of New York, and Colonel F. F. Russell of the Army Medical Corps.

The Harrison Act as amended by the new War Revenue Act, will be mailed postpaid to any druggist, physician, dentist or veterinarian who will send a postal request therefor to "Mailing Department, Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich." Please observe directions strictly.

The Thirty-second Annual Convention of the American Association of Orificial Surgeons will be held September 15-16-17, at the Congress hotel, Chicago. Forenoons will be given to operative demonstrations at the hospital. The program will be replete with practical addresses, essays and papers by prominent orificialists. The clinics will be interesting, as usual.

NURSES

The following statement, prepared by Miss Adelaide Nutting, chairman of the Committee on Nursing of the Council of National Defense, gives some idea of

In a general way, however, it may be said that all questions affecting human welfare should come within its province. Questions of health will, of course, be an important feature of the program. What, in other words, our Rockefeller Foundation has attempted

to do in an experimental way, an international organization should do on an infinitely larger scale. With its unlimited resources and its millions of members in every civilized country on earth, the prospects of this instrument in promoting the welfare of the world are beyond estimation. It will be an organization for morality and samaritanism and it is hoped it will attract to its support the best altruistic thought and leadership of the world. Our rich people are beginning to realize that they are not to be permitted to retain extreme wealth. Besides, people of good heart and large vision are beginning to realize the medium through which they may serve the world, may aid the millions of their fellowmen who are still in barbarism, who suffer the extremes of poverty and ignorance, and who in darkness still await the light."

Mr. Morgenthau said that the new organization proposes to assist the peoples in a material way by providing agricultural implements in, populous countries where present methods are archaic and inadequate. Teachers of agriculture will be sent to peoples who are most backward in knowledge of modern scientific methods.

A party of American specialists, among them eminent physicians, also sailed on the Leviathan to assist Mr. Davison in strengthening Red Cross activities.

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