BOARD OF COUNCILORS. Dr. A. P. Overgaard, President, Fremont. Dr. J. C. Malster, Secretary, Stromsburg. Dr. H. B. Lemere, Omaha, First District, Douglas and Sarpy Counties. Dr. E. W. Rowe, Lincoln, Second District, Lancaster, Cases and Otoe Counties. Dr. J. A. Waggoner, Humboldt, Third District, Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, and Richardson Counties. Dr. H. L. Wells, West Point, Fourth District, Knox, Cedar, Dakota, Antelope, Pierce, Wayne, Thurston, Madison, Stanton and Cumming Counties. Dr. A. P. Overgaard, Fremont, Fifth District, Burt, Washington, Dodge, Colfax, Platte, Nance, Boone, and Merrick Counties. Dr. J. C. Malster, Stromsburg, Sixth District, Saunders, Butler, Seward, Polk, York and Hamilton Counties. Dr. F. A. Butler, Harvard, Seventh District, Clay, Fillmore, Saline, Nuckolls, Thayer and Jefferson Counties. Dr. J. P. Gilligan, O'Neill, Eighth District, Cherry, Keyapaha, Boyd, Brown, Rock, Holt, Grant, Hooker, Thomas, Blaine, Loup, Garfield, and Wheeler Counties. Dr. S. M. Moore, Gothenburg, Ninth District, Custer, Valley, Greeley, Sherman, Howard, Dawson, Buffalo and Hall Counties. Dr. E. A. Creighton, Red Cloud, Tenth District, Gosper, Phelps, Adams, Furnace, Harlan, Franklin, Webster and Kearney Counties. Dr. G. B. Dent, North Platte, Eleventh District, Red Willow, Hitchcock, Dundy, Chase, Hayes, Frontier, Lincoln, Perkins, Keith, Arthur, McPherson and Logan Counties. Dr. H. H. Bellwood, Alliance, Twelfth District, Deuel, Sheridan, Morril, Dawes, Box Butte, Sioux, Scotts Bluffs, Banner, Kimball and Cheyenne Counties. ARMY MEDICAL CORPS EXAMINATION.. The surgeon-general of the army announces that preliminary examinations for the appointment of first lieutenants in the army medical corps will be held on January 20, 1913, at points to be hereafter designated. Full information concerning these examinations can be procured upon application to the "Surgeon General, United States Army, Washington, D. C." The essential requirements to securing an invitation are that the applicant shall be a citizen of the United States, shall be between 22 and 30 years of age, a graduate of a medical school legally authorized to confer the degree of doctor of medicine, shall be of good moral character and habits, and shall have had at least one year's hospital training as an interne after graduation. The examinations will be held simultaneously throughout the country at points where boards can be convened. Due consideration will be given to localities from which applications are received in order to lessen the traveling expenses of applicants as much as possible. The examination in subjects of general education (mathematics, geography, history, general literature and Latin) may be omitted in the case of applicants holding diplomas from reputable literary or scientific colleges, normal school or high schools, or graduates of medical schools which require an entrance examination satisfactory to the faculty of the Army Medical school. In order to perfect all necessary arrangements for the examination, applications must be completed and in possession of the adjutant-general at least three weeks before the date of examination. Early attention is therefore enjoined upon all intending applicants. There are at present thirty-fiv vacancies in the medical corps of the army. AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SIDE TRIP EXCURSION NOS. 1 AND 2. Annual Meeting at Minneapolis, Minn., June 16 to 20, 1913-To Yellowstone Arranged by Minneapolis Committee of Arrangements, Dr. Frank C. Todd, chairman; Committee on Side Trip Excursions, Dr. H. H. Kimball, chairman. The Northern Pacific railway, co-operating with the officials of the American Medical Association, the General Committee on Arrangements for the meeting in Minneapolis, June 16 to 20, 1913, Dr. Frank C. Todd, chairman, and the Excursion Committee, Dr. H. H. Kimball, chairman, will conduct two special excursion parties to Yellowstone National park and re turn, leaving Minneapolis at the close of the annual meeting. Details of Arrangements. The trains will be solid special trains for our exclusive use and entertainment, consisting of one or more of the now famous Northern Pacific dining cars, standard sleeping cars, drawing room and compartment cars, observation cars with smoking rooms, bath, barber shop and library, making in all the finest trains ever gotten together by the Northern Pacific railway, which is equivalent to saying the finest that can be built. In the Yellowstone National park we will have our special four and six-horse stage coaches in charge of competent drivers and guides, and the best accommodations at the hotels in the park. These hotels will surprise. you with their excellent accommodations. All of the details of our trip will be completed before the train leaves Minneapolis, so that there will be absolutely no loss of time, enabling us to devote our entire time to the natural beauties and wonders to be found in the Yellowstone park. Another feature that will appeal to you is the "specially conducted" and the "limited party" feature, the number being limited to 125 passengers. Please note that this party is to enter the park via the official entrance, at Gardiner, Mont. In order to assure yourself of the accommodations desired, write at once to Mr. G. F. McNeill, city passenger agent, Northern Pacific Railway, 19 Nicollet House Block, Minneapolis, Minn., or to Dr. H. H. Kimball, chairman Excursion Committee, 204 Pillsbury Building, Minneapolis, Minn., advising as to the members of your parties and the accommodations desired. DOCTOR'S AND LAWYER'S FEES. In a conversation some time ago a prominent lawyer remarked to a physician of repute that the estate of a well-known "captain of industry," amounting to some forty millions, would bring the lawyers about a million dollars as fees. The doctor asked the lawyer: "Suppose the man were dying, but there being a chance of saving his life by a difficult operation, a surgeon should operate and save his life, would that surgeon be justified in sending in a bill for $100,000?" The immediate answer was: "Certainly not." "Well," asked the doctor, "how is it that the lawyers can charge such large fees?" "Because," replied the advocate, "a lawyer's fees are fixed by the courts." And the celebrated physician, whose office fee of ten dollars is often grudgingly paid, remarked: "You lawyers have solved the problem of self-preservation, while we are spending our time in the preservation of others."-Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. Dear Doctor: CORRESPONDENCE. Referring to "The Committee for Public Health Education Among Women," which was made a standing committee by the American Medical association, at Los Angeles, June, 1911, and which committee has representatives in forty-five states, Nebraska included, it seems to have been overlooked at the last session of the Nebraska State Medical association. The object of this comimttee is set forth in the following resolution and recommendation, passed by the Council on Public Health and Public Instruction, at the Los Angeles session of the American Medical association: "Whereas, The work of the Public Health Education committee is of great service to the community is lessening disease and stands for the work in which the American Medical association is interested, we resolve that this committee be made a standing committee of the Council on Health and Public Instruction to be known as the Committee for Public Health Education among Women, and that either men or women may be members thereof, and that this committee shall have charge of the dissemination of information concerning the nature and prevention of disease among women's clubs, mothers' and teachers' organizations, church and settelment groups, Young Women's Christian association, etc. "The Council on Health and Public Instruction recommends that the state and county medical societies co-operate with the Committee for Public Health Education Among Women and make the state chairman of the committee a member of the State Public Health committee and the county chairman a member of the County Public Health committee in those counties or states which have standing committees on public health, and in those counties or states in which no such committees exist, the Council on Health and Public Instruction request that committees be formed especially to co-operate iwth the members of the Committee for Public Health Education Among Women." Realizing that the object of this committee is as above set forth in the resolution quoted, and that it is in direct line with one of the purposes as set forth in Article 2 of our constitution, I trust I will be pardoned for exceeding my prerogative, in appointing Dr. Anna Cross of Crawford, Neb., a (pro tempore) ex-officio member of the Committee on Medical Publicity for the Prevention of Disease and Other Purposes. Dr. Anna Cross has been a member of the Committee for Public Education Among Women in Nebraska for the last two years, and I feel certain that the failure to cooperate with this committee through its representative, Dr. Cross, was an oversight on the part of the Nebraska State Medical association. I shall recommend that our by-laws be so amended as to make the representative of the national committee residing in our state a member of the Committee on Medical Publicity for the Prevention of Disease and Other Purposes, or the Nebraska State Medical association. But in order that no more time may be lost, I advise that these committees co-operate in the dissemination information which falls within their purview, until our next session of the association, when I trust some definite action will be taken. Yours fraternally, Odell, Neb. I. N. PICKETT, |