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...passed" as other work is passed, counted for a degree, and forgotten. The course of training is for the individual man that he may become a better soldier? No one is working for marks, no one is trying to hoodwink an instructor, no one is doing the minimum of study, who is fit to be an officer and a leader of men. That student cadet who allows his study of the work he has undertaken to slip by as most men have allowed their college work to slip by, is not gaining something at a small cost...
These men will become members of the Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps, under the National Defence Act of June 3, 1916. The minimum salary for a driver in the Ambulance Corps...
...Government will pay members of these units a minimum of $24 a month in addition to necessary expenses, and at present a bill is before Congress authorizing a substantial increase in pay for the men in the Medical Enlisted Men's Reserve Corps. It is expected that this bill will be passed...
...wastage of warfare is appalling. Were it not for the tremendously increased efficiency and knowledge of our medical men and surgeons such wastage would in a few months thin below the minimum of fighting power the strongest armies. Fortunately we are not bound by the ignorance which in the wars of a half-century ago caused the losses of innumerable lives through fever, contagious diseases, and gangrene. The knowledge given to the world by Pasteur and his followers has enabled the medical corps of all the warring armies to restore in the shortest time and with the least loss...
...undertaking of the American Government. A training camp is to be established under the direction of regular army officers within two weeks in the neighborhood of Philadelphia, and the men will be regularly enlisted in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army, and will receive at the minimum the pay of privates, which is about $35 a month (depending on legislation now in process of enactment). In addition the men who enlist, presumably for the period of the war, will receive uniforms, transportation and sustenance...