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Show " : ' ' ' Health and Beauty -By- -,- DR. SOPHIA BRUNSON The Government Is To Educated 5,000 Physicians a Year Five thousand young men are to receive free medical training a year. They will be- educated at the expense of the government, and will be given $50 a month besides. be-sides. These students will be in uniform and subject to discipline like other enlisted men. These young men will be ordered or-dered to medical school, just as others are ordered to combat duty. But suppose they are total losses so far as medical material is concerned, what will be done with them ? They will be put back into the ranks and others will fill in the places left vacant by them. This project is expected to be in full swing this month. The program pro-gram has been contemplated since the draft age was lowered to 18 years. This means that Uncle Sam must also give these youngsters college educations as well as pre-medical pre-medical training. Fifteen months will be allowed for pre-medical work, then three years in an accredited ac-credited college, after which they must serve a year's interneship. Even though rushed through at this rate, it will require a little over five and a quarter years be lt . fore they will be ready to serve in the Army or Navy. . The government also expects to educate dentists, veterinarians, physicists, chemists and other specialists- The Army and Navy intends to assign about 15,000 soldiers and sailors to colleges eah year for special training. A picture of what Army-style pre-medical education may be like was painted in a recent address by Brigadier-General Joe U. Dalton, "Soldiers will be under the direction direc-tion of a commandant who will be responsible for discipline and control. Housing, feeding instruction, instruc-tion, and other services, will be provided by contract between the institution and the Army. "Soldiers will rise at 6:30 and from then until taps at 10:30 that night, their day will be as rigorous rigo-rous as it was during the basic training which they took before being sent to college by the, government." gov-ernment." These students will be expected to take full advantage of their opportunities, and to be fully prepared pre-pared for the strenuous work that will be required of them in Uncle Sam's service. |