Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26
SOCIOLOGISTS
HEAR FROM
MRS. FELTON,
SEVERAL PAPERS READ AND I'M
PoRTANT RESOLUTIONS ARE
ADOPTED BY THE C0NCLAvE.
ToDAY'S PROGRAM.

The second days session of the Georgia
state Sociological society was opened yes
terday at $3.50 o'clock in the lecture room
of the First Methodist church with a dis
cussion of the paper read by DR.. r. G.
Bankston, OF Birmingham, Tuesday on
THE Nemesis of Life-Ignorance." DIR,
r. r. Kline, of Atlanta, who presided,
called on f. S. Key Smith, of Rome, to
open the discussion. Mr. Smith said in
part:
1T is the duty of society to help those
who are unable to do anything to uplift
themselves. II a man has any amount of
education he can use II to advantage.
Education ought TO go with the growth of
men. God saw fit TO endow US with mind
and we ought to use it. Parents owe it to
their children and to society to educate
them
Mr.. Smith was followed by Rev. ]. c.
Solomon, of Atlanta; c. It. Douglas, editor
Of The New South of Douglasville; DR..
George II. Price, of NASHVILLE; L. L. Par
ham and DR.. A. r. Holderby, all of whom
made strong speeches for advanced edu-
cation
A letter was read to the convention
from DIR. George Brown, secretary of the
American Congress Of tuberculosis, of
Atlanta asking that the body appoint
commission to represent the Georgia State
Society of Tuberculosis at the American
congress in st. Louis in 1904. A resolution
was then introduced by DIR. ]. Lawton
HERS, of Savannah, providing for the APP
pointment of a commission of ten MEM
bers. which was unanimously adopted.
The commission, which is to be appointed
by the president of the society, will be an
nouneed today.
Further recommendations were made by
the sociological committee of the Tri-
State Medical society. which were read
u OVn nf haGa al
for legislation that would prohibit the
sale of any article or preparation con-
tanning opium or cocaine, except on the
order of a physician and the other for the
establishment of a state Industrial school,
statel asylum for inebriates and a state
asylum for the treatment Of tuberculosis.
Dr.. ]. Lawton Heirs, of Savannah, read
an interesting paper on 1.-THE States Du-
ty I'm Caring for Consumptives," in which
he held that 1t was the duty of the state
to provide an institution for consumptives
where they could be isolated or make 9TH
er provision for them. Dr. HERS also read
a paper on Diseases and Sanitary Condi-
tons"
The feature of the afternoon session
was paper by Mrs. W. H. FELTON,. of
Gainesville, which came first on the
program. The others who read pa
pers were DIR. George H. Prid. Of Nash
Vile; Rev. c. A. Langston and Alex w
Stirling. of Atlanta.
MORNING SESSION, THURSDAY, 9
A. NJ.
Auditing committee report-Rev. L. B,
Davis. chairman.
Permanent committee report. The Negro
Problem, It's Influence on the White Race
Rev. c. B. Wilmer chairman.
Paper, Consideration of the Southern
Negro as a. Sociological Factor-Dr. T. o.
Powell, Milledgeville. ...-
Paper. The Race Problem of the South
Rev. c. B. Wilmer, Atlanta.
Permanent committee report; publica-
ton. lectures and distribution of litera-
ture.
Permanent committee report; legislation
and uniform laws. --..
Election of officers at II a. m.
Selection of place of next meeting; In
stallation of new officers.