Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1918 — U S. WILL ENROLL ALL DOCTORS [ARTICLE]

U S. WILL ENROLL ALL DOCTORS

Every Physician in Country Is to Be Listed. National Defense Council Will Mobilize Them for Civil and Military Work. Washington.—Dr. Franklin Martin, chairman of the general medical board of the council of national defense, explains the scope and function of the volunteer medical service corps, in which it is proposed to enroll every legally qualified physician in the country, including women, without reference to age or physical disability. "It is a method of recording all physicians who are not yet in service and of classifying them so that their services when required w t ill be utilized in a manner to inflict as little hardship on the individual as possible,” Doctor Martin writes. “It is a method by which every physician not in uniform will be entitled to wear an insjgnia which will indicate his willingness to serve his government. “The object of the corps is to place on record all medical men in the United. States; to aid the army, navy and public health service in supplying war needs; to provide the best civilian service possible; to give recognition to all who record themselves. “Civilian service will be supplied under a fixed plan. Every one in the corps, will receive proper credit for service rendered, and ample medical attention will be assured for all requiring It. There will be four tentative classes, consisting of fit-to-fight men under forty, reserves under flftyflve; hom? forces over fifty-five, and inellgibles. Reserves may be called on occasion for army, navy, public

health and civilian service, the home forces being those able to perform only civilian service.” ~ Service of members of the corps will be called and rendered in response to requests from the central governing board. In which the management of the corps will be vested. State boards will appoint executive committees to receive applications for enrollment in the corps and will make recommendations concerning them to the central governing board.