Senator JOHNSON. I would like to ask unanimous consent to insert in the record a statement on the part of the osteopaths and their situation. If there is no objection, such insertion will be made. (The statement submitted by Lawrence L. Gourley follows:) STATEMENT OF LAWRENCE L. GOURLEY, ATTORNEY FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC RELATIONS OF THE AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION The Selective Service System has consistently applied the same formula for the deferment of medical, dental, and osteopathic students and interns. When preprofessional students were deferrable, Selective Service applied the same formula for the deferment of premedical, predental, and preosteopathic students. These professions have consistently been treated by the War Manpower Commission and Selective Service on the same footing. On the other hand, the Ellender bill, S. 637, singles out premedical, medical, predental and dental students for treatment on a different footing from preosteopathic and osteopathic students. There are six recognized colleges of osteopathy and surgery in the United States. These colleges require 2 years' preprofessional college work before entrance into the professional college. To obtain an osteopathic degree, the osteopathic student must spend a minimum of 4 school-years in the professional college and, after graduation, the student undergoes an internship of at least 1 year. There are 57 accredited osteopathic intern training hospitals. Present Selective Service policies recommend the deferment of osteopathic students and interns, but not preosteopathic students. The same thing is true of medicine and dentistry. The average enrollment in the six osteopathic colleges for 7 years prior to the war was 1,781. In 1944 the enrollment was less than 50 percent of that number, and it continues to decrease. Osteopathic physicians have a vital part in maintaining the health of the Nation. There are more than 10,000 osteopathic physicians and surgeons serving the public health on the home front, many of whom have applications pending for medical commissions in the armed forces. More than 500 are serving in the armed forces in other than their professional capacity. The practice of osteopathy is licensed in all the States. In more than half the States, the license includes major operative surgery. Osteopathy is the only school of medicine, other than M. D.'s, which is recognized and licensed in all the States and whose practice includes obstetrics and major operative surgery in most of the States. If the Ellender bill is enacted, it should be amended to include preosteopathic and osteopathic students. Specific amendments for that purpose are herewith appended. The suggested osteopathic deferment quotas follow the same proportionate basis as those proposed in the Ellender bill for medicine and dentistry. The amendment on page 5 is based on a formula proposed by Dr. Fishbein, of the American Medical Association, when a similar bill (S. 783, by Senator Murray) was pending in the Seventy-seventh Congress, to wit, that deferments be granted only to students attending schools whose graduates are eligible for licensure in a majority of the States. (See p. 22 of hearings on S. 783 of 77th Cong.) AMENDMENTS PROPOSED TO S. 637 BY THE AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION Page 1, line 8, strike out the words "medical doctors" and insert in. lieu thereof the word "physicians." Page 2, line 6, after the word "dental", insert the word "osteopathic,". Page 2, line 7, strike out the word "or", and, after the word "predental", insert the words "or preosteopathic." Page 3, between lines 18 and 19, insert the following: (C) The number of men enrolled in the program for the purpose of permitting them to pursue first-year preosteopathic education and training shall not exceed six hundred and fifty at any one time. Page 4, between lines 17 and 18, insert the following: (C) The number of men enrolled in the program for the purpose of permitting them to pursue second-year preosteopathic education and training shall not exceed six hundred and fifty at any one time prior to the end of the third month of the academic year and shall not exceed four hundred at any time after the end of the third month of the academic year, and after the end of such third month shall not include anyone who has not been accepted for admission to the earliest subsequent entering class of an accredited osteopathic school following the satisfactory completion of such second-year preosteopathic education and training. Page 4, line 19, strike out the word "or", and insert a comma. Page 4, line 20; insert after the word "dental" a comma and the words "or preosteopathic". Page 5, between lines 5 and 6, insert the following: (C) The number of men enrolled in the program for the purpose of permitting them to pursue first-year, second-year, third-year, or fourth-year osteopathic education and training shall not exceed four hundred in each of such classes at any one time. Page 5, line 15, after the word "dental," insert the word "osteopathic". Page 5, line 16, strike out the word "or", and insert after the word "predental" a comma and the words "or preosteopathic". Page 5, in lines 21, 22, 23, and 24, strike out the following language: "medical or dental education and training at any schools except medical and dental schools whose graduates are acceptable to the armed forces for commissioning as medical doctors or dentists." and insert in lieu thereof the following language: medical, dental, or osteopathic education and training at any schools except medical, dental, and osteopathic schools whose graduates are eligible for licensure as doctors of medicine, dentistry, or osteopathy in the majority of the States of the United States. Page 6, line 1, strike out the word "or" and insert a comma. Page 6, line 2, insert after the word "predental" a comma and the words "or preosteopathic". Page 6, line 10, insert after the word "dental," the word "osteopathic." strike out the word "or", and insert after the word "predental” a comma and the words "or preosteopathic". Senator JOHNSON. The hearing on S. 637 is declared closed. (Whereupon, at 1:55 p. m., the hearing was closed.) JOINT HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON SURPLUS PROPERTY OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO STUDY AND SURVEY INDUSTRIAL REORGANIZATION SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS ON THE ALUMINUM REPORTS OF THE SURPLUS PROPERTY ADMINISTRATION, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, AND SURPLUS WAR PROPERTY SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO STUDY AND SURVEY PROBLEMS OF SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISES PARTS 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 OCTOBER 15, 16, 17, 18, AND 19, 1945 Printed for the use of the Committee on Military Affairs, the Special |