PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

[摘要] TWO things have disturbed our members: first is the appeal for Federal Aid; second, the dictatorial manner in which the appeal for Federal Aid was presented. 1st. All must realize by now that there exists an acute financial situation in many medical schools. This has had the earnest thought of the Committee on Medical Education of the AMA and the deans of the Association of Medical Colleges who met just two weeks ago.The educators are fully apprized of the reasons against such a move which would eventually mean the loss of their liberty and State Medicine; they realize that the Supreme Court has ruled that subsidies imply control; they know that Government operation is wasteful, inept and graft-ridden; they see the Army build unnecessary hospitals, the Navy, the Public Health Service and Veterans and some sub-departments likewise, and then they cry for more competent men to run ill-conceived and duplicating projects; they see full Army Camps open and unnecessary staffs on duty; they note the senseless unnecessary demand for more medical schools and for more medical students; they note government dispensaries are kept open—and to prove the need for their existence count every visitor that enters; they wonder how one could justify the purchase of a yacht for the study of fish and wildlife; they have not forgotten the WPA nor the relief measures for schools handled by Federal Agencies during the war; they have not forgotten the PWA, the NYC, The Lanham Act, the GI Bill and the CCC's; they know it will be more costly in taxes for any community to get funds through the Federal Government; they know that once they accept subsidies they cannot turn back; they feel that in the end one will have a "Police State," and we pediatricians will have a Pediatric W.P.A.

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