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,O En like NORTHWEST DISTRICT DEUTAL SOCIETY x or Nebraska Pres. - F. L. Blessing, D.D.S. Ord, Nebraska Vice-Pres. - A. I. Ridder, D.D.S. North Platte, Nebraska 286-A Sec!y-Treas. - W. H. Luers, D.D.S. Grand Island, Nebraska RESOLUTION , VHEREAS, the American dental and medical professions auste established the worldis highest standard of dental and medical care, thereby helping the United States to becone the healthiest major nation in the world; and, WHEREAS, the experience of all countries where government has assumed control of dental and medical services has shown that there has been a progressive deterioration of heälth care to the detriment of the people; and, WHEREAS, the great advances which have been made in the profession of dentistry under the stimulus of private practice would be impeded by enactment of a federal system of compulsory health insurance, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the North west District Dental Society does hereby menorialize the Congress of the United States not to enaet any legislation containing the principle of compulsory health insurance, and # That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the President of the United States, to each Senator and Representative now in the Congress from this state, and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate of the Congress of the United States, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Council on Legislation, American Dental Association, 222 East Superior Street, Chicago 11, Illinois. F. L. Blessing, President 7. L.Bussing V. H. Luers UNLurs. x Dated this 28th day of November, 1949.