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EDITORIAL. 
statement recently published in an Arizona paper (which, with 
much other data, we have received through the courtesy of one 
of our esteemed collaborators, Prof. M. H. Reynolds, University 
of Minnesota, who has the honor of numbering Dr. Norton 
amongst his “ old friends’’), commenting upon his resignation, 
“ Stockmen have forgotten what a local quarantine is.” 
Those who know him will be very sure that his fine manli¬ 
ness and his energetic, clear-headed business ability have never 
done otherwise than gain public respect and confidence for our 
profession. The lives and the work, of such men as Norton re¬ 
mind us over and over that our rank and recognition as a pro¬ 
fession and the public respect we hold as a profession depends 
largely on the showing made by the individual veterinarian in 
his home neighborhood. 
Dr. Norton is about to realize a long cherished dream, that of 
owning and operating a model dairy farm, on a large scale. We 
wish him all success—not for the money. He doesn't need that. 
We will all wish him success for the real social service he can 
render. 
Mule Proves Better Than Motor-truck in United 
States Army : Pursuing our former contention that actual 
demonstration and not sentiment must decide as to whether the 
horse-drawn or the motor truck is the more practicable and eco¬ 
nomical for general trucking*, and therefore the one which will 
endure, we have extracted the following statement of Colonel R. 
N. Getty, Provisional Regiment, United States Army, from the 
New York Tribune of June 21, which shows that even the slower 
mule has won a victory over the motor-truck in the Army 
service: “ The automobile demonstration has been such as to 
warrant the conclusion that it is unwise and unsafe to supersede 
army mules and wagons with the troops, by any other form of 
locomotion.” We also extract from the Second Annual Report of 
the New York Women’s League For Animals: “ Although auto¬ 
mobiles are increasing, all the business traffic below 14th Street 
is still being done by horses, and it will be for many years.” 
