The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11

ter state that the governor has no right to call out the troops or to declare mar tial law for such a purpose.
 It is altogether probable therefore that the governors efforts will be quietly but determinedly directed toward the en- forcement of the law through the usual channels, and the first thing following today's conference is expected to be the customary indictment and trial of those persons against whom there may be suf- ficent evidence to justify such proceed ings
 Just what would be done in the event of failure to convict, if there should be found undoubted evidence of violation. it is impossible now to state. If the gov ernor has any plan in view after that he has kept pretty quiet about 1t.
 Prohibitionists here who say they have investigated conditions over the state, claim that the prohibition sentiment in the country counties has been consider ably strengthened during the last few months They assert there is far less drunkenness, fewer assaults and that labor conditions are so much improved that outside of the big cities the people are delighted with the new conditions. They profess considerable indignation over the reports as to conditions In Sa-
 vannah.
 FnySiCldHS AtC AidtfuCas Recent announcement that the Baptist
 ministers of Atlanta had determined to take up psychical study not only with
 a view to furthering their efforts in the saving of souls but for the purpose of the treatment of physical ills of the body has rather aroused some of the medical profession of Atlanta, and an interesting discussion Is on.
 The doctors. number of whom have
 been interviewed, think it not only pre- sumptious but dangerous for the minis
 ters to take up the business of body healing and they do not hesitate pub licly to say so.
 "It is a thing the church has no bus mess fooling with says one prominent physician. q am bitterly opposed to this
 movement. and think 1t should be taken up immediately by the people and crushed i in the beginning"
 | Others declare 1t a very dangerous move ment and assert that the treatment of
 disease is a thing which the church | should have nothing to do with. The movement had its origin early this week when following a presentation oi | the subject by Dr. Len G. Broughton | the Baptist ministers decided to take UT | psychological methods for the purpose oi | assisting members of their congregations | in getting rid of certain bodily ills which | they believe are more or lesS inentdllS | superinduced and which cannot be readi | ly reached by medicines.
 1 The idea of the ministers. according te | one of them, is rather to supplement thar l interfere with the work of regular phy , sicians.
 | Tn his discussion of the subject pr | Broughton gave an example which cam' | to his attention years ago when he wa | practicing nedicne. The malady failef l to yield to ordinary remedies. and pr | Rroughton then sought to convince thu | patient that he did not have any disease | at all. the result of which was, througf l operation of the mind, convalesceuce ant | ultimate recovery.
 pr. J. M Crawford. one of the phy l sicians who discusses the subject, say pr. Broughton ought to have been prose | cuted for this, because if the diagnosf | was right In the first place the tendency | of his action was to delude the patien | into the belief that he was beyond dan | ger which might have resulted throuSl | nep,ect of treatment in an incurable con | dition.
 | The physicians do not deny the virtu l in the psychic treatment, but they stat | that in no sense should 1t be made t' | supplant medical attention. There ar | some places where the ministers and th | doctors work together. the minister lead | ing the patients mind whle the docto looks after the bodily ills. In such case