The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-08-28

Opaque. ln6y Will lSI YOU lOlho hhO"
what people beyond the radiance of
your effulgent influence may think OF
you and the answers may enlighten us
on the arcana of metropolitan tradi-
tions. Assuring you of the best OF
motives and denying all intentions OF
abusing hospitalito by over inquisi-
tiveness or pragmatically exposing
family skeleton, turn to more seri-
GUS discourse.
Hospitality stirs the emotions and
nurtures those sentiments that make
for the brotherhood of man. the goal
of all religion and ethical philosophy.
We love praise. We are pleased to
have the other fellow endorse our opin-
ions. We are apt to think those who
endorse our opinions have sound judg-
ment. So when l have journeyed a
thousand miles to get to this city and
you meet me and say, welcome! well
come, you have done finely! Glad TO
see you," ETC.. gratitude is as natural
as wetness after a rain. (And this is
true whether we accept the dictionary
definition or the genuine practical
meaning a lively anticipation of IA
yors to come.") Have you not shown
sound judgment, great wisdom and dis
cernment in praising my actions in
coming here? Therefore, when | say,
Mr. Mayor, Master of Ceremonies, La
dies and Gentlemen, we are profound
ly grateful for your hearty welcome
YOU can accept the assertion as doubly
sincere, as our gratitude does not rest
upon the shifting sands of superficial
courtesies and urban pOliteness, but
securely anchored in the clay and rock
of human pride and human selfish
ness.
Zone of the sweetest rewards at a
journeys end is the benediction "wel-
come" The happiest bit of patriotic
elouuence ever heard was a Fourth
of July rhetorical hyperbole which de-
scribed the American Zeit Geist as an
eagle resting his right foot upon the
Allegheny Mountains and his left upon
. the Rockies, with his right wing sooth
ing the wakeful Atlantic and his left
stirring the sleepy Pacific; dipping his
tail into the warm waters OF the Gull
and his beak into the icebergs of the
North, his scream reverberating
> around the world, heard in every
, cline and understood in every tongue
, bidding welcome to all who love
! liberty and will do justice to find shell
: ter under the shadow of his mighty
e wings.
+ Where can the American spirit bc
: found better typified than in this grea
metropolitan city, the financial hear
: of earths mightiest nation? And wht
! should be better prepared to appreciate
the warmth and sincerity of genu
!, inc American welcome than the Medi
! cal profession? This ancient prOfes
g sion whose existence is c9val with hu
= manity (When the first man felt tn
. first pain, there was, no doubt, som
effort made to relieve it; then it wa
K that the Medical profession was born.
u This ancient profession needs no in
" PRODUCTION to you nor eulogium from
c me.
IL But hospitality invites confidence
1t is therefore meet, that in respons
L to your cordial welcome, | should sa
IS something of our intentions here, tn
object of our Association and the pei
sonel of it's membership.
n Conceived in no spirit of racial ez
clusiveness, fostering no ethnic antas
IT onism, but born of the eXigencies o
u American environment, the Nationa
Medical Association has for its ot
e iect the banding together for mutua
q cooperation and helpfulness the me-
and women of African descent who ar
Il legally and honorably engaged in tn
practice of the cognate professions @
d Medicine, Surgery, Pharmacy and Der
y tistry Our Association is not an i'm
tation but an evolution; not a schisr
n but a creation; not negative protes
e against existing conditions, but pos
tive advance toward that adaptabilit
o to environment which finds its highes
expression in the survival Of the fl
a. test. The fit triumph over environ
t. ment, while the unfit succumb to it
obstacles. This Association is a de,
lie laration to the world that we are anon
le the fit and mean to survive
Looking back we feel ourselves tn
N just heriters of all the past glories
Is Medical Science and Medical Ar
It. Looking forward we are hopeful of b.
lie ing worthy participants in the col
r quests of the future. Standing in tn
present we repeat the words of Burke
o. Applaud us when we run, console U
IS when we fall, cheer us when we r
is cover, but let us pass on, for God
q.