Show PRESIDENT GIVES ADVICE TO he creates laughter and applause in his address before an assemblage of them in washington washington june 5 before an assemblage sem blage that crowded the national theater president today opened alie eleventh annual convention of the association of army Sur geona of the united states when the president and party arrived the marino band under director Sen telman struck up hail to the chief and the audience responded with vigorous applause bishop tsat delivered the invocation and major hen derbon then introduced the president who spoke as follows mr president gentlemen I 1 am glad to have the opportunity to bid welcome to the members of this association and their friends today the luen of this association combine two professions fes each of which is rightfully bield in high honor by all capable of appreciating alie real work of men alie profession of the soldier and the profession of the doctor conditions in modern civilization tend more and more to make the average life of the community one of great bortness boft ness and of great bac compared to what has been the case in the past and gentlemen together with all the advantages that have come from this softening of life this rendering it more easy there are certain attendant disadvantages also it is a very necessary thing that there should bo some professions some trades where the same demands are made now as have been made in the past upon the heroic qualities in a man and those demands are made alike upon the soldier and upon alie doctor and how much more upon those who are both soldiers and doctors upon the men who have continually to face all the responsibilities and all alie risk faced by their br othera in the civilian branch of the profession and who also in the time of war must face much the same risks often exactly the same risks that are faced by their brothers in arms whose training is to kill and not to cure laughter and applause it has been my good fortune gentlemen to gee your body at work in the field to see them carrying the wounded and dying from the line themselves as much exposed to danger as those they were rescuing and to see them working day and night in the field hospitals afterwards ter wards when even alie intensity of the strain could hardly keep atheni awake so bagged fagged out were they by hav ing each to do the work of ten ap 1 I welcome you here I 1 am glad to A have the chance of seeing you and wish S to say a word of congratulation to you upon this association all our modern life we have found it absolutely indispensable pen sable to supplement the work of the individual by the work of individuals gathered into an association without this work of association you cannot give the highest expression to the vidual endeavor and it would be a y great misfortune if the military mem bars of the surgical and medical probes h did not take every advantage of their opportunities in the same way J that is taken by the members of the medical and surgical professions alio are not in the army or the navy or the marine hospital service but who are in t civil life outside I 1 am glad to see you gathered in this association and just one word of warning perfect your solves as scientific men able to work with the beat and most delicate ap and never for one moment forget especially the f higher officers among you that in time of need you will have to do your work with the scantiest 3 ble apparatus aughter and applause and then your usefulness will be proportioned not upon the adequacy of the complaint that you did not have apparatus enough but upon the way you have done with what you have loud applause remember that and remember also this applies especially to the i higher that you have got to supplement in our calling the work of the surgeon with the work of the administrator applause YOU have got to be doctors and military men and able administrators I 1 think you whan the president concluded he returned to the white house with hia party the marino band laiying the star spangled banner as they left the theater commissioner mcfarland then made the formal address of welcome in behalf of alie citizens of the capital and dr adams delivered nn address in behalf of the medical teion numerous other addresses were made in with music by the marine band the patriotic airs of the band were heartily cheered by the audience |