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ness, decision and effect. We are credibly informed that a 
movement is now under way in the medical faculties to secure 
a modification of the law—a modification which shall mean for 
medical education in this State its elevation, not its eliminatiom 
the U. S. V. M. A. TO MEET IN OMAHA IN 1898. 
The balloting by the members of the Executive Committee 
of the National Association has resulted in the selection of this 
Nebraska city for the annual meeting of 1898, and we hasten 
to congratulate the association upon what we believe to be a 
very wise selection. The chief competitor of Omaha was 
Boston, and in choosing the former no reflection is cast upon 
the Hub, whose veterinarians are famous everywhere for their 
enthusiasm and pride in their profession and their hospitality ; 
but it is for the interests of the great and influential organization 
that this decision has been reached, and we are sure that upon 
reflection all members having its welfare at heart will so ac¬ 
knowledge it. For an association whose membership extends 
from the Atlantic Seaboard to the Pacific Coast the location of 
its annual conventions should be as nearly central as possible, 
and in this aspect Omaha as nearly meets this requirement as it 
is possible to obtain. The fact that the greater number of its 
members are resident in the East does not affect the question ; 
possibly if the West had received as much consideration it would 
not have been so. But it is not an Eastern, nor a Western, nor 
a Northern, nor a Southern association. It is of the United 
States, it is National. Its meetings should be equally accessible 
to all alike. While some have clamored for a session in Cali¬ 
fornia, we have steadily opposed it, because it would be mani¬ 
festly unfair to the Eastern members. Upon the same grounds 
we shall oppose the far East, the far North, the far South. If 
some national event should attract the members to a given point, 
such as the W^orld’s Fair in Chicago in 1893, may be policy 
to give them the advantage of the dual event ; but no extreme 
policy of arraying the West against the East should be indulged 
in. Everything for harmony and the welfare of the association, 
