Navy Dental Corps.

NUMEROUS appointments are being made by the Surgeon-general of the Navy to the list of reserve dental surgeons. These appointments are of applicants who are included in the current quota of the selective draft, and are given until December 15th to enter the military-naval service.

Army Dental Corps.

IT WILL be several weeks before it is possible to announce the result of the examination of candidates for appointment to commissions in the Army Dental Corps. Some appointments may be made in advance of the approval of the completed list in order to appoint those who would otherwise be beyond the age limit.

No action has been taken in regard to the promotion of officers of the regular dental corps in accordance with the act of October 6th, several questions of the construction of the law, notably in the matter of the service in grade factor, remaining to be determined.— Army and Navy Register.

Regulations Under Selective Service

Law Affecting Dental Students.

SECTION 151в of the new selective service regulations concerns especially medical students and hospital interns registered under the law. It became effective December 15th: "Except in the following cases, no registrant may enlist voluntarily in the military or naval service of the United States.

"Under such regulations as the Surgeongeneral may prescribe, and on receiving permission from the Surgeon-general to do so, any medical student, hospital intern, dentist, dental student, veterinarian, or veterinary student may enlist in the Enlisted Reserve corps of the Medical department, and thereafter on presentation by the registrant to his local board of a certificate of a commissioned officer of the Medical department of the army that he has been so enlisted, such certificate shall be filed with the questionaire, and the registrant shall be placed in Class V, on the ground that he is in the military service of the United States. There is no other ground VOL. LX.-7

on which such persons (as such) may be placed in a deferred classification."

The effect of classification in Class V is to exempt or discharge from the draft. Regulations to carry out these paragraphs will be issued by the Surgeon-general. The effect of the new regulations will be to extend to firstyear medical students, after December 15, 1917, essentially the same privileges in respect to army service as are now enjoyed by students of the second, third, and fourth-year classes. The approval of the Surgeon-general will be granted to such students in well-recognized medical schools only.

Since, under existing conditions, it is extremely unlikely that further calls for the present draft will be made before December 15th, the fear expressed by first-year medical students that they may not be able to continue their medical course is unwarranted, if they have not already been cited for the draft by their local board. In that case the Medical department has no authority-Journal of the American Medical Association.

Assignments.

Army Dental Corps.

Week ending November 24th.

1st Lieut. George Krakow, now on temporary duty with 35th Engineers, Camp Grant, Ill., assigned to permanent duty with that regiment.

Army Dental Reserve Corps.
Week ending November 24th.

1st Lieut. Albert Mehrer to Fort Slocum for duty.

The following to Chicago, School of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Northwestern University Dental School, for instruction: 1st Lieuts. Jack W. Scherer, James V. Sparks, Frank S. Leonard, Floyd D. Leach, Earl T. Young, Sherman M. Fowler, Max C. Frazier, Donald M. Gallie, Jay H. Lee, Brien B. O'Bannon, Merton M. Postle, John Voss, Everett E. MacGibbon, Walter McN. Morgan, and George D. Siewert.

1st Lieut. Alexander W. McClean to Fort Worth, Camp Bowie, for duty.

1st Lieut. Charles Steffens to School of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Northwestern Uni

versity Dental School, Chicago, for instruction and return to station.

The following to Camp Wheeler, Ga., for duty: 1st Lieuts. Deazil C. Barnhill, Clifton E. Donnell, and Ira D. Funkhauser.

Week ending December 8th.

Francis R. Steirly to Camp Fremont, Cal., for duty.

1st Lieuts. Louie T. Austin and Ray D. Curry to Presidio of San Francisco, Cal., for duty.

1st Lieuts. Fay T. Brown, Norman C.

Spencer, and Harold A. Stone to Garden City, N. Y., concentration camp and supply depot, for duty.

1st Lieut. Hervé C. Manon to 30th Engineers, Camp American University, for duty. The following first lieutenants to places for duty: Leroy C. Andersen to Camp Lawrence J. Hearne, Cal., and Magnus A. Gerde to Fort Barry, Cal.

1st Lieut. Alphonse L. Senecal to Philadelphia, School of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Evans Dental Institute, for instruction, and to Fort Slocum for duty.

J. W. BEACH, N. Y.
H. J. BURKHART, N. Y.
M. B. ESHLEMAN, N. Y.
F. W. Low, N. Y.
H. A. PULLEN, N. Y.
H. L. WHEELER, N. Y.
L. L. BARBER, Ohio.
S. D. BOAK, Ohio.
H. C. BROWN, Ohio.

To Every American Dentist. By J. W. BEACH, Chairman, Buffalo, N. Y President Wilson has asked that every resource for winning the war be utilized to the very limit. The dental profession forms one of the greatest resources for making our army efficient. You are an integral part of this great source of help to your country. Will you meet this responsibility as an American citizen should? Of course you will!

HOW CAN IT BEST BE DONE?

Join the League now, and assist in its great work. Ten thousand new members are needed right away. If you are already a member, we ask you to get at least five more as soon as possible. The mouths of the men in our new national army must be made healthy and dentally fit before going to cantonment, and we must help to the limit of our ability. The Preparedness League of American Dentists is a recognized agency for carrying on this work under the direction of the Surgeongeneral's office, the National Dental Association, and the Committee on Dentistry, subcommittee of the Council of National Defense.

J. D. MILLIKIN, Calif.
A. W. VINEY, Calif.
C. J. LYONS, Mich.
H. E. FRIESELL, Pa.
E. C. KIRK, Pa.
J. V. CONZETT, Iowa.
B. H. SMITH, Md.
F. T. MURLLESS, Conn.
M. F. FINLEY, D. C.

There are forty-five thousand dentists in the United States. Six thousand belong to the League, and have done the major part of the following work: July 16 to November 3, 1917: Fillings 60,946; extractions 35,909; cleanings 2,233; crowns 133; bridges 184; plates 165; unclassified operations 6,891— total 111,061. Thousands of operations not listed were performed prior to and since these dates.

If every one of the 45,000 had done his part, what a splendid showing we could have made. It is not too late to become a part of this great work for increasing the fighting power of our army. We know you are with us. Don't let the Germans show all the efficiency! Let's show what we can do!

We've got to work together to win this war. Do your part by joining the League today, and we will give you real, properly directed work to do.

For membership send one dollar ($1.00), payable but once, to the Preparedness League of American Dentists, 131 Allen st., Buffalo, N. Y. (Kindly inclose business card to avoid mistakes in name and address.)

Idaho Board of Examiners.

THE Idaho State Board of Dental Examiners will hold their next session in Boise, Idaho, January 14 to 17, 1918. Address

A. M. JACOBSEN, Sec'y,

255 E. Center st., Pocatello, Idaho.

North Dakota Board of Examiners. THE next regular meeting of the North Dakota Board of Dental Examiners will be held in Fargo, N. D., beginning Tuesday morning, January 8, 1918. All applications and credentials should be in the hands of the secretary ten days prior to the date of examination. For application blanks and further information, write to

W. E. HOCKING, Sec'y,
Devil's Lake, N. D.

South Dakota Board of Examiners. THE South Dakota State Board of Dental Examiners will hold its next examination at Sioux Falls, S. D., beginning January 7, 1918. All applications must be in the hands of the secretary by January 1st. Fee $25. Address ROBERT JASMANN, Sec'y, Scotland, S. D.

Massachusetts Board of Examiners.

A MEETING of the Massachusetts Board of Dental Examiners will be held in Boston, Mass., February 11 to 15, inclusive, 1918, for the examination of candidates for registration. All applications must be in the hands of the secretary on or before February 2d. For further information address

GEORGE H. PAYNE, Sec'y,

29 Commonwealth ave., Boston, Mass.