Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-05-20
CORDIAL WELCOME
 FOR THE DOCTORS
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(Continuad From Page One.) cated the establishment of State Board of Health and State License Board to pass upon qualifications o1 prospective physicians and surgeons.
 Dr. Clegg also complimented the Federation of Women's Clubs for their active work in behalf of the move ment for the relief and control o1 tuberculosis in this state. He de- c1ared that unusual harmony exist ed among the physicians in this state and that it was better to cooperate than to compete.
 The meeting was presided over by Dr. B. D. Luck, third vice president. The welcome address of Mayor W. l.. Toney and Dr. c. K. Carruthers and Dr. Lenow's response were exception ally we'll presented. Mayor Toney extended cordial welcome to the delegates. He said Pine Bluff was q city of progress and Improvements the home of factories, foundries, hos nitals and schools of the highest type, as we'll as churches of every denom- ination. It has 10 or IF miles of payed streets, he said; B or 40 miles of sanitary sewer, making it the healthiest city in Arkansas with death rate that was better than any other city it's size. Mayor Toney classed the doctors as the most in- telligent body of men in Arkansas. He was liberally applauded.
 Dr. Carruthers' Welcome.
 Dr. Carruthers in welcoming the visitors, said:
 MT. President, officers and mem hers, of the Arkansas Medical Society there are few duties more pleasant than that of acting as host to ones friends. particularly when they art distinguished guests. The pleasures and comforts which the welcome wis itor receives in our homes are very
  cation at being permitted to show how |, open-hearted we can be to those wht challenge our respect and our love This is no less true of official, socia and municipal bodies than it is o individuals; and, so, 1 have pecuila = pleasure, acting for the Jef1erso1 County Medical Society, whose repre- sentative I have the honor to be, il i, welcoming to our midst the physician! and surgeons who compose the Ar II kansas Medical Society, together Witt their wives and daughters.
 II assure you, Mir. President. tha l. it was a source of deep regret when ', some time ago, we found ourselve : unable properly to care for and en certain this body; but l am pleased to say that since that time Pine Bluf ' has made such substantial progres 1T along many lines that it is not prob q able that any other distinguished as sociation will ever again be turne
 from our doors for want of Suitabl
 and sufficient accommodations; be " cause to the broad hospitality whic IS we have ever been ready to offer, W n have added excellent convention eS
 banquet halls, well-appointed hotel and hostelries, and many comfortabl 70 private homes.
 We welcome this medical societ.
 first of all. because it's members large > ly are strangers, and ibecause tn SC Good Book warns us to Be not fol Q. getful to entertain strangers; fc
 thereby some have entertained angel
 not tell but that seated in this pres " ence is some physician or surgeo s who shall, by the discovery of a. sovereign remedy or method as v
 unknown to medical science, becom
 indeed an angel in the midst of su
 fering.
 .But not alone to you gentleme do we extend our welcome. Thel lie comes to my mind at this hour tf he unselfish sympathy and encourage
 ment which a certain physicians vii
 very we'll known to me has been
 him; and as l remember that sue
 a physicians wife is known to evel other practitioner in Jefferson Coul ut ty: yes, as remember that no ma of in this County could practice med ,v cine except as there was in his hon
 q sensible wife who believed in hin
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