The Indian Review January 1914 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of all Topics of Interest

They are not to be accepted as infallible and the longer the inteval between the time of the events andothat of the narration the greater is the possibility of error and the more will the influence of legend be noticable. [...] Aside from the fact that the participation in the exhibition by the governing states of India will be tremendously appreciated by the people of the United states and indeed is looked forward to as the greatest courtesy that India could render to the United States there is the further fact that there will be assembled at the exhibition the colunercial representatives of the nations of theJPANTIARY [...] The climate of San Francisco and of California in general is probably the most temperate in the world and the scenic attractions that abound within easy access of the exhibition city and the numerous holiday festivals that are the perennial features of the western country. make California probably the acme of locations for the holding of so universal a celebration as the Panama-Pacific Internatio [...] The reforms which they urge upon the attention of the Commission are the improvement of their pay and prospects the discontinuance of the bond system under which they are now recruited the abolition of septennial examinations for promotion the enhancement of the vacancy reserve the rlaxation of the leave and pension rules and the separation of the Sanitary from the Medical Service. [...] In making the suggestion the memlfrandum is not unmindful of the yeoman services rendered iefthe Indian Medical Service officers in Civil employ to the country and the people at large and to the growth of the Medical Science in India ; but it considers that a stage has been reached in the development of the science and of the country where a change in the organization of the "Medical Sevice can