Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1916 — Dr. C. E. Johnson to Be Lieutenant In Medical Corps. [ARTICLE]

Dr. C. E. Johnson to Be Lieutenant In Medical Corps.

C. E. Johnson, who made application some time ago to AdjutantGeneral Bridges, offering his services as a medical officer in the event of war, has been designated to take the examination for first lieutenant and has been called before the examining board for next Thursday, April 27th. He will become an officer in the medical corps of the national guard.Anticipating trouble in Mexico the war' department has been paying special attention to tropical diseases and their prevention and a recent bulletin issued to line officers dealt with typhus and other disease common to that climate.

Many of the leading surgeons and medical men of the country have had their names placed on the reseive list of the army or the guard subject to call, and Dr. Edward Clark, the Indianapolis surgeon, is one of these. He recently received, a letter from the war department asking him how soon he could respond to a call if it was made and he answered that he could be ready in an hour. Dr. C’ark makes many thousands of dollars a year but his patriotism is of the type that would sacrifice every private interest for the good he could be in saving the lives of soldiers and thus promoting the cause, of America. To offer to do this in a time of peace and to make the preparation for service is very commendable and Dr. Johnson is deserving praise for the sacrifices he is making. Examples like these should appeal to every young man who should feel it his duty to enlist at once with the national guard and to secure as much training as possible in order to better care for himself and perform a greater service to his country.