to work. The bigger the commissions, the bigger the specialist. However, real specialists are O. K. and should be encouraged. Many men could and do become good special men without a training abroad or elsewhere. It's always up to the man himself. It also makes a fellow a trifle tired to listen to some fellow who fits glasses and carves adenoids and tonsils for a living setting himself so far above his fellow man; who scoffs at the dentist and calls him a mere mechanic. We have plenty of this variety, too, and often their knowledge of dental subject is a trifle crude. These fellows frequently spot the glint of a gold crown and they have been known to remark, "Get that tooth out, you ought to now better than let some foolish dentist put such a thing in your mouth." There is no use trying to tell these fellows that the root is the part that becomes infected and not the crown. They would pass this same case as A number one if the crown was missing; and as to a porcelain tooth, they never recognize it at all. It's the shining gold they are after in more ways than one. I have decided the only way to handle this class of doctors is to "treat 'em rough" and tell the prospective patients to see Gifford for their eyes. After all, none of us are perfect and there is some good in most of us. We all have to try and learn each day. Be charitable to each other and if we will treat the other doctor as we would like to be treated, we all will succeed. We should remember that this "Big Stuff," being peddled in a million different forms will bring us all grief sooner or later. There is still much for even the wisest man to learn.-Dental Facts by Bradley F. Lockwood, D. D. S., Yankton, S. D. RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TEACHER OF HOME ECONOMICS FOR HEALTH HABITS OF HER PUPILS. One of the many responsibilities of any teacher is interest in the health of those in her charge and in providing healthful conditions for their school activities. But this responsibility is emphasized in the case of the home economics teacher, since nutrition, shelter, and right living, the three most vital factors in the maintenance of health, are her particular province. The well-planned course in foods, including the study of their preparation and use, should fit the girl or woman to select those foods which are most healthful for herself and her family. The study of clothing includes selection as well as construction, and hygiene is one of the factors governing selection. The maintenance of the health of the family is one of the big problems of the home maker. The training of either girls or women in any of these lines should be of such a character that immediate application is made of the principles involved. The teaching of foods or clothing to a class of girls has failed if what she has learned is not applied in her daily life. For instance, having studied the selection of food for body needs, does she order a good nutritious meal at the school lunch counter or bring such a meal in her lunch basket? Understanding the hygienic properties of various fibers and materials, does she clothe herself properly? Does the woman who is taking a course in home management arrange for healthful living conditions for herself and her family? These practices taught by the home economics teacher and added to and strengthened by the teachers of related subjects, such as physical training, general science, and physiology and hygiene, should become the health habits of the girls and women. The ways in which these habits can be developed by the home-economics teacher are manifold. Example is stronger than precept, and the teacher must practice what she preaches. She is usually a very busy person but she is expected, and should be expected, to look healthy, welldressed, capable and happy. She should never be seen eating a badly chosen meal, wearing an unbecoming or unsuitable gown, or performing her duties in an unsystematic or inefficient man ner. A second means to the end is the subject matter of the courses. Do the courses in food, clothing, and home management provide material and time for work on their health phases? Is the laboratory practice for these phases well developed? Does it receive attention even in the elementary courses? The length of time for a task should be regulated to the physical ability of the child and this implies knowledge of the physical nature of the child on the part of the teacher. The method of presentation of the subject matter should be adapted to this end. The work should be made alive and practical, the students should be inspired to apply principles and should develop an attentive and critical attitude toward conditions which affect their health. The equipment of a laboratory is not always within the control of a teacher, but she should attempt to have her laboratory approach ideal conditions. The ideal laboratory is so equipped that the maximum amount of work can be done with the minimum expenditure of energy. The laboratory, like the teacher, sets a standard for the student. Working areas should be of such size, shape, and height that correct postures can be maintained without effort. The teacher should insist upon correct sitting, standing, and working positions. Light and ventilation should be noted and carefully regulated. The members of the class should be taught to note and correct these conditions for themselves. This question of health habits is a part of that fundamental interest of home economics-right living. As such, the home-economics teacher should see her opportunity for developing health habits and make the most of it. Zella E. Bigelow. FELLOWSHIP WITH GERMAN DOCTORS. In a recent number of the Medical Record Dr. W. W. Keen contributes the following letter: I have thoroughly approved of your recent editorials as to German doctors, who, when peace is declared, it is reported, are actually, proposing to come to America and enter into practice! At the close of the "Appeal to the Civilized World" of the ninety-three German Intellectuals among whom appear the names of von Behring, Ehrlich, Haeckel, Neisser, Roentgen, Rubner, Waldeyer and Wassermann, all doctors, they say: "Have faith in us! Believe that we shall carry on this war to the end as a civilized nation to whom the legacy of a Goethe, a Beethoven, and a Kant is just as sacred as are our own hearts and homes. For this we pledge you our names and our honor." One of their thus accredited statements is that "the German army and the German people are one." Let us see what that army did. The armistice requires the German army to point out the wells that they have poisoned! So far as I know, this is the only occasion in history in which an act of barbarism has been officially confessed! Their atrocities in Belgium, France, Poland, and Serbia are known to thousands of witnesses. Those barbarities were the work of the army, with which, we are assurred, the German people "are one." They initiated the horrible poison-gas warfare. They permitted the "unspeakable" Turk, their welcome Mohammedan ally, to murder by wholesale the defenseless Christian Armenians, including thousands of women and children. Yet poisoning wells, using poisonous gases, and murdering innocent civilians-men, women and children are all prohibited by solemn treaties signed by Germany. But treaties are only "scraps of paper" to Germany. And after all these atrocities and these con stant violations of international law do these German doctors dare to come here and propose to obtain a living here as medical practitioners? Never was there a more insolent proposal. The Germans are whipped, but still defiant; beaten, but still unregenerate. Witness what Hindenburg said to his army two days after the armistice: "We leave the fight, in which for more than four years we have resisted a world of enemies, proudly and with heads erect." They must be taught many stern lessons in humility instead of the haughty arrogance which has been their national trait for years. If they dare to come, I hope that no American doctor will ever take any such man by the hand, and that no American medical society will admit a single one to membership. They may be sure that few, if any, American patients will ever patronize them. Let them stay at home, In time, when as a nation they have repented of their sins and brought forth fruits meet for repentance, and especially when a younger and better and cleaner generation has come on the stage, then, and not until then, may they be received into civilized society. CHIROPRACTIC BILL TWICE DEFEATED. A bill providing for a separate board for the licensing of chiropractors was defeated in the California legislature on March 26, by vote of 39 to 38. It was reconsidered on April 2, and again defeated, this time by a vote of 42 to 32. Correspondence LETTER FROM COBLENZ. March 17, 1918. Yesterday evening, I spent in Coblenz. This was 2 days after the great review of the First Division by Gen. Pershing. One of the aids whom I met in the Officer's Club told me the general was tickled foolish over the review; that he kept rehearsing it and smiling over it all through dinner that night. And I must admit that it was an interesting show although insufferably tedious. Imagine a great natural stadium formed by the hills-a mile long by more than half a mile wide, covered with a short greensward. Beginning at 11 o'clock in the morning, the various organizations, coming from every direction, began pouring over the edges into this bowl. There were the infantry regiments, the artillery with their long dark lines of carriages, the lively, light, mulepulled machine guns, the engineers, the signal corps, the various staffs mounted on spirited horses, hoards of glittering brass bands and a gallery of townspeople and camp-followers. The division drew itself up in ranks on the south side of this huge stadium, each organization taking its allotted section on the slope, with all the bands, now merged, in the center. The audience took its place on the opposite side. It saw 25,000 soldiers in that bowl all at once, and under arms which, of course, makes the effect slightly different from that of the crowd at a Harvard-Yale game. I could not but think of the power that lay in that complete though small army of thoroughly seasoned and trained men. With it, Washington could have won the Revolutionary War in about one hour. By reason of the artillery and the machine guns, it would have turned the tide for either side in the War of the Rebellion in less than a week. Napoleon never would have lost Waterloo with that army to boot. There we stood until half past two, waiting for the General, much of the time at attention. Only the band, now 150 strong, broke the monotony; nothing took the edge from the chill. At last having finished his dinner in some comfortably warm room in Montebaur, the general burst like a sunbeam over the hill opposite, mounted upon a matchless horse which he handled beautifully, and surrounded by those lesser well-dressed luminaries, his staff. I want you to understand that the general is a magnificent creature to regard. On foot, he passed through every file in the entire division, speaking personally to many of the officers. The waiting was interminable. About 5 o'clock he called all the officers and non-commissioned officers to the reviewing stand and made a speech which might better have been omitted. Then those to be decorated-about 60-marched across the field, all abreast, to the strains and grunts of the band; and the general, preceded by a crier and followed by a pin-fastener and by Generals Dickman and Hines, stuck the appropriate medals upon the breasts of the candidates beginning with the general at the head of the line and finishing with a little doughboy at the end. As he passed along, he spoke to each man and shook him by the hand. Thus I got my long-deferred D. S. C. That ceremony being over, we all stood by the general and watched the review as the division moved out of the amphitheatre. Although most of the organizations had risen early in the morning, marched from 5 to 10 miles and had stood about 6 hours in the cold with no other food than a hunk of bread, they now passed by with the step of a panther. They were under full pack. The lines were irregular, there was no marked time, there was no goose-step. But that great thick graceful column, moving so easily, so silently on the soft turf, producing in the beholder such a sense of reserve force, is a sight which will always remain in my memory. It looked as though it could have marched all night. Individually they loped along easily. "A great division" was the truest thing that General Pershing said. The next was the night of Col. Billy Dodd's party. Not caring much about dancing, it fell to my ot to entertain an old brigadier general similarly disinclined. We poured many libations so that "sick call" was an arduous ordeal for me at 7 the next morning. However, I have recovered at the present writing. W. W. Manton, M. R. C., Captain 6th F. A., First Division. New York City, May 7, 1919. Journal of Mich. State Medical Society, Grand Rapids, Mich. Gentlemen: I am enclosing an article taken from the report of a conference of shoe manufacturers recently called at our headquarters. The idea of such a conference grew out of the results of the physical examinations made by the Division of Health of our Bureau of Social Education, in its endeavor to promote health among women. Within the last 4 months such examinations have been given to various groups of girls in different occupations, and there has come forcibly to our notice the fact that an overwhelming number of women are wearing shoes, which, with narrow pointed toes, inflexible shank, in most cases high heels, pinch the foot, cause bad posture, and so incapacitate the wearer for freedom at work and necessary normal exercise, all of which affects the general physical condition. The shoe manufacturers who conferred with us on this question, showed great interest, and with their help we hope to encourage the wearing of good shoes, and make the purchase of them possible in all cities and towns in the United States. May we not have your co-operation in putting this matter of wearing good shoes forcibly before the readers of your paper? It will mean to the general well being of the American women to have the students and graduates in Physical Education, Medicine, and Nursing take a definite stand in this foundation for good posture, health and efficiency. Yours very truly, HARRIET WILDE, Director Physical Education. A Normal Shoe For a Normal Foot. Can the shoemaker build a shoe that will keep normal a normal foot? And having built it will the public be brought to see the beauty of the product? Not so many years ago we gave our admiration to the small, tightly laced waist. Today we laugh at it and to-morrow we shall be equally amused by the pencil-point toes and high heels that tilt the human foot to the angle of a horse's hoof. The war made low heels beautiful on Fifth avenue, and consequently on Main street; if it had lasted a little longer, women would, of necessity, have gone the whole way with the shoe problem. The shoes of the future will not be "prescription" shoes, they will not cater to deformities, but they will be built to conform to the normal lines of the foot. The National Board of the Young Women's Christian Associations through the Health Division of the Bureau of Social Education, has started a drive to get this shoe for American women and to popularize it. The Associations have all the health arguments. They have a national membership of four hundred thousand women to listen to them, but they cannot get this shoe without the cooperation of the manufacturers and dealers who make the shoes and determine the styles. To bring about this co-operation, a conference with leading shoe men was held recently at the National Board Y. W. C. A. headquarters in New York. The manufacturers have a difficult problem, but not an impossible one. They must produce a low shoe, with a low heel and a flexible shank that will allow enough exercise of the muscles of the arch to keep them strong, a shoe with enough room for the toes and a straight inner border because the foot is naturally straight on the inner side. They must make the shoe attractive to the discriminating taste by using their knowledge of leathers to procure variety and fineness of finish for both day and evening wear. Will the shoemaker do it: When he does, the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Asso. will be back of him. Every woman who wants to wear the "normal line" shoe must be able to get it. All samples of shoes will be examined, an alphabetical list made, according to States and cities, of all the firms that carry these shoes. your address blank applications for membership in the Medical Veterans World War, for the convenience of physicians in your Society who desire to join this organization. The former Medical Aide to the governor in your State has been requested to further this work and will appreciate the assistance you can render him at your annual meeting. Assuring you that your co-operation will be appreciated, I remain, Fraternally yours, HUBERT WORK, Temporary President. Chicago, Illinois, May 13, 1919. Dr. F. C. Warnshuis, Secretary, Dear Doctor: In compliance with a request received from the temporary president of the Medical Veterans of the World's War, we are sending you, under separate cover, a supply of forms for making application for membership in that organization, and also three copies of the Constitution and By-laws. Similar forms have already been placed in the hands of the physician who served as Medical Aide to the Governor of your State. We are advised that Dr. Work, the temporary president of this organization, has already written to you relative to this matter. Yours very truly, ALEXANDER R. CRAIG, Secretary American Medical Association. Application for Membership in the Medical Veterans of the World War. (Brief history of service, giving units, dates and positions held; use reverse of this sheet and attach additional paper if necessary.) ... M.D. (Full name of applicant.) Application for membership, with fee of $1.00, should be mailed to the Secretary, Col. F. F. Russell, M.C., U. S. Army, Army Medical School, Washington, D. C. Copies of the above application blank for membership in the Medical Veterans of the Worlds War have been received at this office from the American Medical Association and will be furnished anyone on application. It is incumbent upon all who can avail themselves of this opportunity to become members. Deaths The death of Doctor E. J. O'Brien of Cheboygan has been reported. His death occurred in Detroit. The deaths of the following doctors not members of the State Society have been reported: Doctor Harry G. Lundgren of Ironwood, and Doctor Elizabeth Pope Wescott of Lansing. State News Notes COLLECTIONS. Physicians' Bills and Hospital Accounts collected anywhere in Michigan, H. C. VanAken, Lawyer, 309 Post Building, Battle Creek, Michigan. Reference any Bank in Battle Creek. PRACTICE. Central Michigan town of 700. A No. 1 school, Baptist and Methodist churches. Very fine farming section. State roads. Average better than |