The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-05-01
MADE ON
 DEPENDENT CLASS Lieutenant Governor Cunning ham Speak to B'Nai B'Rith CHARITY WORK THE THEME The Ideal Man Is He Who Supports Himself and Famlly-The Law
 of Life is Work-HeIp
 for the Helpless.
CHARITY WORK THE THEME

The feature of the introductory session of the thirty-second annual convention of the district grand lodge No. 27 Independ- ent Order of BNai BRith, which will be duly assembled this morning at 10 o'clock was the address of Lieutenant Governor R. M. Cunningham who spoke on "The Dependent Class"
 The address was delivered at Temple Emanual under the auspices of the local Intellectual and Culture" committee of which Rabbi Morris Newfield is chairman. In spite of the inclement weather the temple was filled to overflowing Dr. Gun ningham's discourse was pronounced an exposition of the mission of charity.
 In addition to the address this musical programme was carried out last night: Organ preludge, Mrs. Florence Heinberg; violin solo, Miss Regina Heinberg; vocal solo, Mrs. Joseph Lowensohn.
 The Lieutenant Governor who was in- trodueed by Dr. Newneld said
 Having accepted an invitation kind ly extended by Dr. Morris Newheld to ad- dress you on this occasion and having been informed that on tomorrow the B'Nai B'Rith, charitable and benevolent organization of the Jewish people, will meet in this city, l have chosen for my subject the Dependent Class
 Arthur Mcdonald, in his Abnormal Man. says: If the average man in the community is taken as the normal type and individuals are classified according to their degree of likeness or unlilSeness to him. there will result in general the fol- lowing divisions:
 " The normal class of individuals who greatly exceed all other classes in num- Der These in every community consti- ute the conservative and trustworthy ele ment and may be said to be the back bone of the race.
 9. The dependent class, as represent ed by the inmates of aims houses, char ity hospitals, asylums for orphans and the homeless and similar charitable insti- tutions.
 8. The deliquent class found in all penal and reformatorv institutions.
 4. The defective class. comprising the insane, feeble minded, idiotic and im- beetle.
 " D. Men of genius or great talent
 The same author informs us that ac- cording to the census of 1880, out of 50- o00,00o of inhabitants in this country there were a little less than 50000O or about 1 per cent of the whole population, who be- longed to the classes of abnormal man. towit, the dependent delinquent and de- fective classes.
 State Care.
 "All of these are charges upon the com munity and the state attempts the care and keeping at an enormous cost, of the delinquent and defective classes but does not make adequate provision for the dependent classes. Therefore, these must depend largely upon charity and philan- thropy for sustentation.
 onffr trff f,,fo o..1 childhood is wholly dependent but that does not concern us here but is never theless a subject of transcendent import ance The dependent classes may be sub divided as follows:
 "1. Infants and children who are with out lawful or natural support-parents, relatives or guardians embracing or phans, abandoned children, and children without known parentage etc.
 The Divisions.
 % Infants and children whose lawful and natural support is inadequate, use- less and worthless.
 "3. Adults who are temporarily or perm anently disabled by physical disease or injury, thereby being temporarily or permanently disqualified from making their own living. This embraces the old
 A. The natural pauper. or one who has made more or less effort, and abandoned further effort for himself, and thrown himself upon the community. nothwth- standing he has both physical and mem tai capacity for work. This is a special type of the dependent classes.
 There are others not included In these classes. but the above embraces the vast majority of dependents
 Sect of Church.
 "To help and assist all these is the uni gf r..Il cieties, philanthropic institutions. the or ganized and unorganized charitable every where, and is also to sume extent the policy of the state and its municipal sub- divisions. To all of which we should say Amen There Is, however, a scientific aspect to this question, which deals with the causes of human dependency, and which if understood and practiced would largely prevent the class of dependents, and which would. in many instances, af- ford ample and practical remedy. It is along this line that the subject Is pre- sented to you this evening
 Tn dealing with this subject society in it's brOadest sense must be considered as a whole. and man, the individual or integen of this society, must also be con- sidered. The relations of society to man, and of man to society are the burden of the discussion. From one man and one woman segregated in the garden of Eden from the rest of the universe, or from seregated communities of men, scat tered throughout the world as the first or primal inhabitants. the aboriglnes, the present population of the world has de- seconded or been evolved In either case there has been vast change. From the one spot in the garden of Eden, or from scattered independent unaffiliated com munities of savage men. world commun- ity a worlds commonwealth, worlds civilization. a worlds society, related, interdependent, affiliated. have been evolved The facts that the population of the earth is made up of different races and nationalities, with different religions, languages, governments, institutions, etc, different natural and al ficial environ ments etc., and with different potencles as organized social entities and as n- dividual units, do not alter the one great fact of world wide relation of man kind in sympathy hope, aspiration in- terest, necessity and destiny. A world distributed commerce. a world diplomacy, a world opinion in the affairs of naton- al political units. worlds interest in the welfare and happiness of these, all attest a world civilization. differing In degree only, and all tending in the same direction to-wit. the bettermen of man. To trace the changes occurring between primal man and the present giving their causes order relation etc, would be to review the worlds history with all of its religious. politics wars, sciences, art. philosophies. literatures, etc., a task for which no one man is equal. An aiIusion to the general principles can only be made to-wit:
 Law Of Life.
 s.1 The universal law that annliea to l