THE CADUCEUS.
POWER OF BONDS
FOR GENERAL GORGAS.
Despite the ever-willing pocketbook
of our patriotic citizens when a Lib
erty Bond issue is to be floated, many
have only very vague ideas as to the
actual use of their generously proffer
ed fortunes. The following gives a
very fair pstimate of the final pur
chasing power of the bonds:
One $50 Liberty Bond will render 666
soldiers relatively safe from typhoid
or will make about 400 operations pain
less.
One $100 Bond feeds a soldier for
eight months.
Three $100 Bonds clothe a _soldier
and feed him for one year in France
One $500 Bond buys supplies for
the headquarters company of an in
fantry regiment.
One $1,000 Bond buys six cases of
operating instruments for a base hos
pital and $1,500 worth of bonds will
buy a motor ambulance.
Two $1,000 Bonds buys a motor
truck.
$5,000 worth of Bonds will equip a
company of infantry with rifles.
$6,000 worth of Bonds buys one Lib
erty Motor.
*9,000 worth of Bonds will provide a
rolling kitchen for a field artillery
brigade.
$10,000 worth of Bonds fully equips
three hospital wards of fifty beds each
with beds, made up and linen in re
serve, chairs, tab’es, mirrors, foot-tubs,
120 towels, pa.iamas, and bath robes
$50,000 worth of Bonds will con
struct a base hospital with 500 beds.
$100,000 worth of Bonds will buy five
combat planes.
—By Private A. W. Griswold.
SOLDIERS’ CLUB NOTES
The following news-editorial from
The New York Times has been turned
In to The Caducous by one of the
enlisted men wha has been an admir
er of the methods of our Surgeon Gen
eral.
While it is pretty generally under
stood that General Gorga's will succeed
himself in the olfice of Surgeon Gen
eral for the duration of the war yet
the article at hand rings true in its
argument for other leaders of Amer
ican forces.
■‘The peaitions of several national
medical associations to President Wil
son asking that the services of Sur
geon General .William C. Gorgas be
not lostto the government during the
war because he will reach the statu
tory age of retirement, sixtv-four. on
Oct. 1. reflect thedesire of the Ameri-
canpeople, who know the "career of
General Gorgas and how, brilliant and
merited his international reputation
is.
“At sixty-four a surgeon- or scientist
—General Gorgas is both—many be at
the meridian of his usefulness. Some
of the most eminent medical men in
this city are well past that age, and
they still practice their profession. In
France and England there yould be no
question of retiring an army surgeon
of the attainments of General Gorgas
while the war lasted. It would be con
sidered fatuous, without the shadow
of reason. The President has authority
to keep the present surgeon general
in active service, notwithstanding the
statutory requirement, and it would
seem that it was not necessary to
memoralize the President to hold
fast to our most distinguished army
doctor.”
1ST SGT. ON FURLOUGH
Hospital Sergeant P. J. Dempsey,
first sergeant of the detachment, is in
Philadelphia, Pa., enioying a well-earn
ed ^ furlough of nine days’ duration.
This is the first occasion since last
Christmas that we have been without
the kindly, guiding hand of our es
teemer leader and his absence is felt
in many quarters. Until his return,
July 9, the affairs of the detachment
are under the capable supenusion of
Sergeant First-Class Chester B. Leigh
ton.
OPERATING ROOM tRAGEDY.
Three patients in recovery room.
Number one and two having recov
ered, are calmly waiting to be remov
ed to ward, when number three wakes
up and the following conversation
takes place:
No. 3 to patient on his right: “Say,
buddy, what were you operated on
for?”
Oh, I was operated on for appendi
citis a week ago, and they sewed a
couple of sponges up in me, so I had
to be opened up again today.” ■
Turning to patient on his left:
“What were you operated on for?’
‘Oh, they left a pair of corceps in
my side when they operated on me
a week ago, and they took it out to
day.”
Just then the Major rushed in and
veiled: “Has anyone seen my hat?”
No. 3 fainted away.
SERGEANT T. S. HARRINGTON.
HOME HOUR.
Home hour was held at the Soldiers’
Club Sunday afternoon between 4 and
5 p. m. Refreshments were served
by the ladies of Charlotte on the
porch and terrace.
Don’t be doped by. some of the ad
vertisements of today. Many a dollar
has been wasted on the soldiers and
burdened them with gifts impossible
to carry. Why not follow our adver
tisements and buy him what he needs?
Editor Verlin Harrold has returned
to his home in Indiana on a ten-day
furlough, well-earned by his-earliest
and conscientious labors in making the
Caduceus the paper that it is today.
In his absence the editorial end of the
Caduceus is being carried on by Avery
D. Toohey.
DANCE MONDAY.
I^ast Monday a dance was given to
the members of the various bands
who had so generously given their
services for the dances which are
held every i ednesday and Saturday.
A royal good time was enjoyed by
all.
THE MEDICAL CORPS
There irn'^o’la4^r«p^®nT'’® personal demands,
ineie IS no law to send these men to serve In war torn lands
They freely go, they gladly go, with healing in their hands’
ThTbarril’^rs ^ achievement lost.
They cist tL* wills ’ ’.'J crossed,
they cast the hard earned prize aside, nor stop to count the cost.
BEGINNERS’ CLASS,
The first dancing lesson was given
to the soldiers of the newly organ
ized class last Tuesday night. There
was a good sized crowd present and
every prospect of rapid improvement
was' shown.
1 think the surgeons more than most, are truly great of sniiT ’
Their many chanties, if told, would fill a lengthy scroll- ’
Their daily, countless kindness makes more than bodies whole.
^he food we hasten oversea*.
Pna w ^ ®hve our threatened liberties
God bless the medics who enlist to safeguard all of these
By private'T. J. QUINN.
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