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EDITORIAL. 
which should be fully discussed prior to the convention, and 
the Review tenders its pages cheerfully for such a purpose. 
NOW AID THE ARMY BILE. 
We lay before our readers this month a copy of a letter sent 
forth by the Committee on Army Legislation of the American 
Veterinary Medical Association to all veterinarians known to 
them, asking their aid in furthering the bill to be presented at 
the present session of Congress to secure a better status for the 
veterinarian in the United States Army. In order that the 
subject may be made very plain to those of our readers who 
have not given the subject much thought, we also reprint the 
circular of information prepared by the committee. There will 
scarcely be a recipient of this appeal who will not heartily ap¬ 
prove of it, and who will not honestly decide to accede to the 
request of the committee for moral support through his influence 
with the Congressman of his district and the Senators from his 
State. But the trouble is he does not act; he delays, postpones, 
until it is too late. The time to see your representative or Sen¬ 
ators is at once,—as soon as you read this warning. If they are 
absent, sit down and write them as strong an appeal as you can. 
If you have friends of influence with your congressional repre¬ 
sentatives, have them also write. Whatever you do, do it now ; 
and you will some day be proud to say that you were instru¬ 
mental in securing the Veterinary Corps of the United States 
Army. 
u The Automobile Gazette ” (sometimes called the New 
York Herald ) has apparently added to its various attaches “ a 
runaway editor,” with a staff of very energetic reporters, for 
since it began its tirade against the horse (which became neces¬ 
sary to boom the stock of the automobile trust) no animal of 
the genus equus has kicked over a trace in the city of New 
York without having the incident exaggerated in its columns. 
Almost every morning it incites its readers to abandon the 
horse as a dangerous animal by giving a column or more to 
