EDITORIALS 



WILLIAM J. GIES 



In our last issue we announced two changes in our editorial 



policy: (a) the creation of a new department, " associat'wns and 



societies," and (b) the reservation of the Space on the inside of the 



Further changes ^^^^ cover of each issue for notices pertaining 



in our to "professional opportunities for biochemists/' 



editorial pohcy i^ ^.j^jg jg^^g ^^ ^j^.g relatively more Space than 



ever to " hiochemical news, notes, and comment." We"are happy 

 to announce that, with the special help of colleagues in various 

 parts of the country, we expect to make this department of the 

 BiocHEMiCAL Bulletin increasingly more interesting and valuable. 

 The names of our colleagues, who have already accepted our invita- 

 tions to assist in this work, are printed at the head of the department 

 (page 215), as " sectional contributing editors." Insucceeding is- 

 sues we hope to add the names of others of our colleagues who will 

 actively cooperate with us in making our "news" department both 

 professionally and personally of particular service to biochemistry 

 and of special value to biochemists. 



We publish, at page 129, a timely and interesting report on the 



Growth of the Status of the Medical Brotherhood, by its presi- 



Medical dent, Dr. Meltzer. In this report, Dr. Meltzer 



Brotherhood emphasizes the following important facts among 

 others : 



(a) The Medical Brotherhood, as an Organization and as a 

 moral influence, is a growing success, in this country and abroad. 



(&) The Medical Brotherhood is not an Organization of the 

 " peace-at-any-price " variety; nor is it an " anti-preparedness So- 

 ciety." It was founded solely for the " furtherance of international 

 morality." 



(c) The Medical Brotherhood is not "a veiled pro-German 

 movement." If it is, then such eminent and astute Americans as 

 President Nicholas Murray Butler and ex-Senator Elihu Root, of the 

 Executive Committee of the Carnegie Endowment for International 

 Peace (both advocates of preparedness for defence), have been 

 grossly deceived, and the whole Executive Committee of the Medi- 



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