The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-08

I SOF ] e~%4SN-c-9-&s-@ %-%-e-s-s-e-S-~ .-, NM BOUT two hundred physicians A and visitors are in Birmingham
 A today In attendance on the fourteenth annual meeting of the Tri- State Medical Society of Alabama, Geor- gia and Tennessee, which Is in session at the city hall. The meeting is scheduled to last today and tomorrow, adjourning tomorrow after the evening session.
 Nearly the entire morning yesterday was consumed in getting list of the delegates and visitors, their credentials, and in listening to the addresses of welcome of Mayor Drennen, pr. R. M. Cunningham, Judge J. J. Banks and the opening prayer of the Rev. John G. Murray. The address of President J. C. LeGrande was postponed until today.
 The programme for today Is reading and discussion of papers in the morning from to F o'clock. and the same at the afternoon session from to o'clock. The evening session will close at g o'clock when the doctors will adjourn to attend a banquet in the Turn Vedien hall on First avenue.
 The programme for tomorrow after noon includes the election of officers at the morning session. As far as Is known there is no slate. and no one has any idea as to who will be nominated. The afternoon and evening sessions will be consumed in reading and discussing pa- pers
 Convention Opens.
 
 convention with prayer, asking the blessing of God on the physicians and their work for humanity.
 Mayor Drennen, in behalf of the city, welcomed the visitors and extended to them the courtesies of the city. In brief statement he showed the expendi- lures of the city during the past twelve months for improvements of all kinds, including the city hall, the streets and 1 sidewalks, the fire department and oth- CT departments. He also showed that the improvements during the next twelve months would far exceed those of any previous similar period.
 The Birmingham Railway, Light and power company. he said is making im- provements in it's system which will make | equal to any in the country. He also said that these improvements would rep resent an enormous expenditure of near l ly $1,000,000. In conclusion the mayor welcomed the physicians and said 1t was pleasure as well as an honor to have so representative body of men to come l to the city, and that he hoped they would come again in the near future.
 Judge Banks Speaks.
 Judge J. J. Banks welcomed the physi- clans in behalf of the profession of Bir- mingham. He said that the lawyer and the physician were kindred In many ways the one treated the body of 6 man and the other treated the financial portion of a man. He said the professions of Bir- mngham were glad to welcome their friends. the physicians and that his wish was that their visit to Birmingham should be pleasant and that they should carry away only pleasant remembrances.
 Dr. R. M. Cunningham. lieutenant gov ernor-elect, made an address of welcome I in behalf of the Jefferson County Medical society. He asked to be pardoned for bragging little on Birmingham and the district, but called attention to the fact that it was the best equipped with natu- ra1 resources of any place in the south 1 that it was growing and prospering with 1 the new south. He said that Alabama had started the movement to have an or l ganization of the doctors of the south and the country and that the movement had grown and been fostered until 1t was now national affair. He welcomed fhn hodx tV1 t1a af 4Aa G-~t zation of the kind formed.
 Papers Read.
 | President J. O. LeGrande asked that inc address of the president be postponed until some later time in the meeting, | when it would be best to deliver it. | The programme of papers to De read was then commenced, the first being Sociology and Industry; Relations Be- tween Them" by c. E. Douglass of Douglassville. Ga. He said sociology was the great power by which the world was brought into closer touch and by which some day he believed the question of la bor and capital would be settled D. L. Wilkinson of Montevallo, Ga. then spoke on Some Further Remarks on the Medical Supervision or the Edu- cation of Boys and Girls.'' He said that it had been found by careful research that the boys and girls of our schools were not properly taken care of and that large per cent of the school children were afflicted with some disease, and that he believed board of physicians should be put on the state board. of education, He also urged that more careful supervi- sion of the conditions of children should be made in the schools
 Afternoon Session. 'The Negro as a Criminal and His In- fiuence on the White Race" paper by Louis Edelman of Huntsville, caused great deal of discussion at the afternoon session, members taking different sides and arguing them fr1IIv. f,, bis ,,a ,,o~ r,.,