The Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 8, 1918: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces
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The Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 8, 1918: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces
World War, 1914-1918 -- Periodicals; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Periodicals
Frequent entertainments and concerts are given.
Afternoon tea is served every Saturday, at which
some American lady acts as hostess.
REGISTRATION--The Union keeps an accurate index of all men who
register at its Paris headquarters or at its
London Branch, 16, Pall Mall East, S.W.1. It is
anxious to get in touch with all college and
university men in Europe, who are therefore urged
to register by MAIL, giving name, college, class,
European address and name and address of nearest
relative at home.
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AMERICA'S BEST MEDICOS
AT WORK FOR THE A. E. F.
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Incomes of Specialists in the Overseas Command
Would Total Enough to Pay off the
National Debt.
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If the incomes of all the well-known American specialists who have come
to France to look after the health of the A.E.F. troops were lumped
together they would be enough to pay off the national debt of the
country and then leave sufficient to satisfy a camp store-keeper.
This is no pipe dream or a simple newspaper yarn, but the plain truth.
Some of the medicos from the United States have given up earnings of
such big figures they should only be mentioned kneeling. Where they
gathered in half a million at home yearly, they are accepting a major's
three thousand and service allowance, in order to see that Bill Jones
from Kankakee or Sam Smith from Pleasantville has the proper treatment
for warts in his stomach or barnacles on his thinking apparatus.
[Illustration: Ward in an A.E.F. Hospital, Showing Some of the First
to Pay a Visit to "Blighty."]
In addition to separating themselves from large wads of coin and all the
comforts of home, they have brought over the staffs of their various
hospitals, who know all their funny ways of operating, from how best to
cut a man loose from his appendix to painless extraction of the
bankroll. They have also brought along all their collections of patent
knives and scissors, the only thing they left behind being the doctors'
bills that would take a year's service as a doughboy to meet the first
instalment.
A Fear to Forget.
Nearly everyone has an ingrowing objection to going to a hospital, or
acknowledging he must take the count for an illness, because of fear as
to what treatment he may draw.
Forget it!
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