Current Comment

PROFESSIONAL PRINCIPLES AND GOVERNMENTAL CONTROL  The medical profession of the United States has been engaged now for some thirty-five years in opposing the establishment of a federal bureaucracy for the development, control and distribution of medical care. History indicates that medicine not infrequently is the first line of attack by those who favor governmental domination. Once medicine is brought under central management, other professions, industries and trades succumb. A recent issue of the periodical called The Theatre, distributed with programs in the theaters of New York City, considers the attempt in connection with consideration of an education bill by the present Congress to provide for the allocation of $1,000,000 for the establishment of a national theater. Although this idea has been before the theatrical profession for almost ten years, it has now been revived after an abeyance during the last war. Commenting on this subject, Mr.