Cow-Doctors

Physicians and surgeons huffed and puffed last week when they heard that the will of the late Walter Lippincott of Philadelphia, son of famed Publisher J. B. Lippincott, assigned $25,000 to the Veterinary School of the University of Pennsylvania. Laymen, unembarrassed by that professional pride which obliges medicos to look down upon "horse-doctors," morticians and the like, were less scornful. The annual report of Dr. John R. Mohler of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry was also published last week and it showed that the well-paid veterinarian profession is not only uncrowded but actually undermanned. The 14 veterinary colleges in the U. S. and Canada turned out only 132 graduates last year. The Bureau of Animal Industry needs about that number of new men annually. Veterinaries are no longer "horse" but "cow-doctors." Aside from the growing pet industry and the need of veterinaries to help pet owners comply with inoculation ordinances, the growing population needs more and more men to keep milk wholesome, beef untainted, pork pure.