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Show Washington, D. C. ARMY DOCTORS It was lost in the news shuffle, but Dr. John H. Musser of the Tulane university medical school, a member mem-ber of a special committee named by Secretary of War Henry Stim-son Stim-son to study medical conditions in . the army, made some startling admissions ad-missions recently at a senate committee com-mittee hearing on the utilization of doctors by the war department. Testifying before the Pepper subcommittee sub-committee on wartime health and education at a hearing in Pasca-goula, Pasca-goula, Miss., Musser was asked it the army had too many doctors. "Yes," he replied. "There has been too much indiscriminate recruiting re-cruiting of medical men without due regard for civilian needs." "Do you think that the army has utilized its doctors properly?" he was asked. "Definitely no," replied the Tulane Tu-lane professor. "The present system sys-tem of medical service in the army is based on a procedure that dates back to the Spanish-American war and calls for the recruiting of a disproportionate number of physicians physi-cians from civilian life." To illustrate his point, Doctor Musser pointed out that Tulane university's uni-versity's unit of doctors in the army medical corps had spent more than a year "twiddling their thumbs" at Camp Benning, Georgia, while awaiting a call for overseas duty. At this time, Doctor Musser said, there was a crying need for doctors doc-tors by civilians. Dr. Musser said he realized that the need for doctors was far greater than in the last war, but that the army medical corps wasn't making the fullest use of its personnel. WILD ANIMALS' HOLIDAY Since the army has a priority on guns and shells, there hasn't been much hunting for two years, with the result that wild animals are creeping up on civilization. Both farmers and state officials are demanding de-manding cartridges to drive off this invasion. War production board has received re-ceived urgent messages from state officials in every part of the country. Pennsylvania is alarmed at the boldness bold-ness of bears and deer. New York says rabbits eat Victory gardens. Louisiana needs shotguns to drive off the flocks of rice birds. This explosive situation was the last task handled by Maury Maverick Mav-erick before he left WPB's government govern-ment division, to become WPB vice chairman in charge of the small plants division. He tried to raise the civilian cartridge car-tridge quota from 12 per cent of normal to 50 per cent. At first, the army was willing. But that was before be-fore Cairo-Teheran. After the Big Three powwow the army hinted that it would need everything for the invasion, and declined to pass the ammunition. When the news reached the backwoods, back-woods, says Maverick, the deer did a dance, and bears celebrated with big bear hugs. COSMOPOLITAN CONGRESS The farm bloc is all-powerful In the house of representatives, but you'd never guess it to judge by the number of members who are real, active farmers. There are only 30. Lawyers, because of their natural bent for politics, continue to dominate domi-nate the house membership by an overwhelming majority. Out of a total 435 members, 234 are lawyers. Business men rank next, with a delegation del-egation of 60. There are 27 teachers and professors, profes-sors, 23 writers and newspaper men, 9 former government officials, 9 insurance in-surance agents, 4 doctors, 2 engineers, engi-neers, 2 dentists, and 2 certified public accountants. Only one minister holds a congressional con-gressional seat, Rep. Charles A. Eaton of New Jersey, former rector of the Madison Avenue Baptist church in New York city, although Rep. Walter H. Judd of Minnesota was a medical missionary in China for several years. The sports world is represented chiefly by Congressmen Joseph O'Brien of New York, former professional pro-fessional wrestler and football player; play-er; Samuel Weiss of Pennsylvania, a football referee who still officiates in National Pro league games; and La Vern R. Dilweg of Wisconsin, former for-mer All-America footballer at Marquette Mar-quette university. The rest of the membership hails from a miscellany of trades and professions, pro-fessions, including a number of laboring la-boring men, miners and mill workers,, work-ers,, two druggists Representatives Carl Durham of North Carolina and Harve Tibbott of Pennsylvania and a veterinarian, Congressman George W. Gillie of Indiana. CAPITAL CHAFF C. D. B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- ( men, privately denounces Bill Green's statement that the railroad strike would never have been pulled. Robertson says he and his men meant ever word of it. C Because of his interest in Communism, Com-munism, singer Paul Robesrjn has been prevented from making USO concert tours of U. S. army camps. The state department even denies him a passport to go to England, where he is immensely popular. j |