scribed, and paid in, in just thirty-eight minutes. A Dodge touring car was purchased by telegraph from a firm in Chattanooga, was promptly delivered, and is in use at the camp. A quotation from a letter of thanks received from one of the dental officers places this work in an aspect which is important, as follows: "When the high officers of the camp see our car, and when the instructors in the Sanitary, Cardio-vascular, T. B., X-ray, Orthopedic, and other schools see it they know that the members of our profession are backing us for all they are worth and that we mean business. All such things serve to send dentistry higher and higher in the estimation of the men around us, and through these things to stimulate us, we hope, to drive so hard that some day when the old standards of dentistry emerge from the war clouds, their colors will be flying high, and Uncle Sam and the whole world will turn to our profession and say, 'Well done, good and faithful servants.'" The League may not be able to supply cars for all the military camps, but we are undertaking to furnish cars for at least ten more. We are at this moment awaiting the decision of the authorities as to which camps are most in need. As soon as these camps are selected, the state directors will be advised and asked to co-operate in collecting funds towards the car for the nearest camp. After paying for the two cars already purchased and delivered, we are pleased to report that we already have a goodly sum left in the treasury of this fund. R. OTTOLENGUI, Chairman, SPECIAL NOTICE. Stenographers and Typists Wanted-Men and Women. You are urged, as a patriotic duty, to enter the Government service in Washington, D. C., for important war work as stenographers and typewriters. Women, especially, may thus aid in the nation's great effort. Men also are needed. Those who have not the required training are encouraged to undergo instruction at once. Tests are given in 550 cities every Tuesday. The Government maintains a list of available rooms in private houses in Washington and is erecting residence halls to accommodate thousands. Full information and application blanks may be obtained from the Secretary of the Local Board of Civil Service Examiners at the postoffice or custom-house in any important city. JOHN A. McILHENNY, President, U. S. Civil Service Commission, WASHINGTON, D. C. PORTIONS of an additional circular to Editors give the following additional particulars: "In the matter of housing in Washington, it may be said that the Room Registration office of the District Council of Defense, at 1321 New York ave., has on its list more than 4000 rooms which have been carefully inspected and are available for new appointees. The usual charge for rooming accommodations with board, that is, the two principal meals of the day, is $40.00 a month, but in order to obtain this rate two persons must ordinarily occupy one room. In addition, the Government will soon erect residence halls, including cafeterias, for the accommodation of Government employees in Washington. . . . "It is perhaps unnecessary to say that an efficient civil service is as important as the armed forces in the prosecution of the war." JOHN A. McILHENNY, President. SOCIETY NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS NOTICES should reach the Office of the DENTAL COSMOS not later than the 11th or The National Association of Industrial Dental Surgeons. THE National Association of Industrial Dental Surgeons was President-DR. CARL E. SMITH, The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. Second Vice-president-DR. G. L. EPLING, Pocahontas Fuel & Iron Co., Treasurer-DR. R. I. HUMPHREY, International Harvester Co., Chi- Secretary-DR. E. L. PETTIBONE, 6503 Detroit ave., Cleveland, Ohio. (Presented before the fiftieth anniversary meeting of the Dental Society of the State of New York, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., June 13-15, 1918.) LL life, from the standpoint of health and disease, is cell life. The chemistry of the world's activities is developed through the functional activity and protoplasm of the cell. The first forms of life, unicellular organisms, are lawless in their activities, multiplying without limit as food and environment is secured, and the stronger destroying the weaker. The normal type of microbe lives on the weaker animal and on the plant type of life, completing its existence from lack of food or the resistance of the host. It then dries into spore form, to again spring into action under suitable conditions. The lawless existence in unicellular organisms in contrast to multicellular life does not occur naturally. When the multicellular organisms appeared, true death entered the world. Under necessary control of growth and function through community existence, they became the prey of the unicellular organism. Man should not complain of the action of these organ VOL. LX.-66 isms, because through them occurs the evolution of the world, and the bad effects of certain germs under abnormal conditions may be far outweighed by the good they do. If one considers the countless numbers of unicellular organisms, many so small as to require the highest power of the microscope to be seen, and many of whose existence we know and yet have failed to identify, it will be seen that, of these, few in proportion to the total number are destroying agents. The greater part of the disease germs are under the control of man's intelligence, if he has the power to enforce the preventive measures known to the world today. It is through such measures, applied in earlier life, that during the last thirty years the life of man has been lengthened a number of years. The microbes causing disease in man eventually bring about a stage of his life in which sudden death occurs from affections of the heart, brain, and kidneys, between the ages of fifty-two 963 |