WHERE CAN WE 



FIND A DOCTOR? 



LIST 20 COUNTIES WHERE STUDENTS WILL TAKE PRIORITY 

 ON MEDICAL STUDENT LOAN FUND 



FARM groups have been asking for 

 the past 20 years with increasing 

 frequenqf, "Where can we get a 

 doctor to replace old Doc Jones?" 

 The answer: farm communities 

 must send one of their boys to medical 

 school and make a doctor out of him with 

 the expressed purpose of his returning 

 to their area to practice. There is no 

 way that any governmental agency, state 

 or national, can furnish them a doctoi 

 they want, according to Dr. Harlan Eng- 

 lish, chairman of the rural medical serv- 

 ice committee, Illinois State Medical So- 

 ciety. 



The farmers must grow their own. Dr. 

 English says. The same is true of nurses. 

 If farm families are going to have nurses 

 in their areas it will have to be their own 

 daughters who take up nursing. 



What about the future as viewed from 

 1948? You can't expect to keep your 

 boys and girls who take up medicine and 

 nursing "down on the farm" unless you 

 build them a workshop; any more than 

 you can farm today without reasonable 

 tools and a good machine shop. 



What is the workshop for your boys 

 and girls in medicine? It is the 50 to 

 100 or 200-bed hospital that is serving 

 your area or the one that you and the 

 other folks about you vote to build and 

 operate, says Dr. English. 



While you are sending your boys and 

 girls to professional schools, get in touch 

 with your local Farm Bureau and find out 

 what the hospital plans are for your com- 

 munity. The State Health Department 

 has surveyed our state and advised, after 

 adequate study, the location of various 

 sized hospitals in various towns of the 

 state. These hospital areas cross county 

 lines and are set up for the maximum 

 benefit of all Illinois citizens. Since 

 one-third of construction costs, under this 

 plan, must come from local sources, 

 bonds will have to be voted in some 

 places for building purposes. In others, 

 a tax levy will be necessary to support 

 them. 



No group outside your own commu- 

 nity can or will build and operate a hos- 

 pital for your people, according to Dr. 

 English. You can get state and federal 



aid for building, but, to operate a hos- 

 pital, only the local community resources 

 can be used. 



The answer to the type of health fa- 

 cilities you want for your farm folk lies 

 in your own hands, says Dr. English. 

 You can't get something for nothing, he 

 believes. You have to put your boys 

 and girls in the medical service or you 

 won't have a new "Doc Jones." City- 

 bred doctors and nurses won't come to 

 your rural towns. 



If one of your boys or girls needs help 

 — medically, scholastically, or in some 

 cases financially — consult the president 

 of your county medical society (ask any 

 doctor, he can tell you who the local 

 president is) or your County Farm Bu- 

 reau. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 and the Illinois State Medical Society 

 have set up a medical student loan fund 

 for boys in the 20 Illinois counties in 

 the worst need of doctors, in an effort to 

 show you how to help yourselves. 



These 20 counties are: Calhoun, John- 

 son, Pulaski, Jasper, Schuyler, Fayette, 

 Scott, Washington, Bond, Cumberland, 

 Jo Daviess, Clark, Clay, Edwards, Han- 

 cock, Brown, Hardin, Effingham, Jersey 

 and Pope. 



Farm boys who have completed their 

 college work in pre-medics, with good 

 grades, and who are eligible, can borrow 

 money from the loan board; but that is a 

 program for the counties in direst med- 

 ical need. The future country doctor 



Floyd E. Morris Dr. Horion English 



lives on a farm today and is going to 

 Blank Township High School. Farm 

 families will have to educate their own, 

 and equip their community so the boys 

 and girls will be glad to come back home, 

 concludes Dr. English. 



Dr. English is chairman of the rural 

 medical service committee of the Illi- 

 nois State Medical Society. Floyd E. 

 Morris, lAA vice-president, is chairman 

 of the lAA medical committee. 



lAA Annual Meeting 

 To Be Held Nov. 15-18 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 will hold its 34th annual convention 

 Nov. 15-18 at the Hotel Sherman in 

 Chicago. The 1947 meeting was held in 

 St. Louis. 



AFBF To Meet 

 In Atlantic City 



The American Farm Bureau Federation 

 will hold its annual meeting in Atlantic 

 City, N. J., the week of Dec. 12-16. 

 Many farm folks are interested in a 

 travel tour to this meeting similar to the 

 trip by chartered train taken by lUinoians 

 to the AFBF San Francisco convention in 

 1946. 



Ed Barnes has transferred as farm 

 adviser from Richland to Macon county. 

 A 1936 University of Illinois graduate 

 and ag teacher at Bunker Hill and Herrin, 

 Barnes has been in Richland county for 

 about seven years. 





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