The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-11
CAREER MAKES
 IMPORTANT RULING Police Judge Cannot Commit Boys to Industrial School A NEW BANK EXAMINER L. P. Hosmer of Greensboro is Named Assistant-Board of Trustees of
 Industrial School Meets
 Here Today.
A NEW BANK EXAMINER

Montgomery January 10.-(Special J. Under ruling of the attorney general no boy can be committed to the Boys Industrial school at East Lake by any mayor justice of the peace or judge of a police court The statutes say that such commitment may be made by judges of the supreme court, chancellor. judge of probate, circuit julge or judge of any city or criminal court It is also provided in section 1864 Of the code that boys between certain ages convicted in courts of this kind may be sent there. In neither case does the attorney general find reason to believe that this can be done by a judge or & solicitor.
 Concluding an opinion for John Purifoy. public examiner, who has just checked over the rolls and finds boys sent there by mayors and justices Of the peace, the attorney general says: 'I am of the opinion that neither of these sections au- thorizes a commitment to be made to this school by the mayor or the judge of a police court of any city or town, or by any justice of the peace, or by the court of justice of the peace. The statutes
 
 various city, circuit and criminal courts and inferior courts of the state, as well as by the judges of the courts mentioned and by judges of probate"
 There are at this time 200 boys at this school. which, at s1OO year each, Is costing the state s2O,00O a year. There has been belief for some time that the school is carrying too many boys, or, in other words. boys that were not lawfully committed, so the governor has been look ing into it with view of determining what can be done. AS result all boys there without legal assignment by a legal court, will either be sent home or have their cases passed upon by judge whose authority is made up from the expressed words of the code.
 Studying Iniunctions.
 A. Bland, traffic manager of the Au- gusta, Ga, chamber of commerce, Is in the city to study rate injunctions, de- siring to inform himself on a South Carolina situation. Fertilizer rates in South Carolina, enjoined by the Sea- board Air Line. seriously affect the bus mess of Augusta, and MT. Bland is trying to find out all about the Alabama cases now pending in the courts.
 Garber is Back
 Attorney General A. M Garber, who has been attending the rate hearings in Louisville, is at home, but will go right back Only one witness has been ex- amined so far, the chief engineer Of the Louisville and Nashville road. The hearing will run several weeks yet. The hearings to be held at Savannah will open January 25.
 New Bank Examiner.
 Gov. B. B. Conner, on Monday, ap pointed L. P. Hosmer of Greensboro an assistant examiner of banks, making the second and last to be authorized by the recent extra session of the legs lature. Judge T. J. Rutledge. the ex- aminer, will now have two assistants, the other being Ralph Garner, ap- pointed last fall. MT. Hosmer is son of Rev. Dr. s. M. Hosmer. presi- dent of the Southern university at Greensboro.
 Boys School Trustees.
 A meeting of the board of trustees of the Boys Industrial school at East Lake is called for tomorrow. in Bir- mingham. The request for . meeting came from Mrs R. D. Johnston, head of the board, and Gov. B. B. Conner is expected to be present. he being ex- officio member. J. A. Wilkinson. com missioner of agriculture. is also to be on hand. It is thought that matters of extreme interest are to come up. for only a few days ago one of the state examiners made an investigation of the school and the cost of 1t, anticipating, no doubt, this session.
 Making Young Doctors.
 w. R. Brassell chief clerk to the department of health, and G. W. Will liamson, statistician of the department, have been busy all day registering the ffty-odd men seeking license to prac- tice medicine in the state. In the mean time in the office of Dr. W. H. Sanders, the state board of medical examiners was in session, the object being to pro vide for tho proper tests to be given the boys. Beginning with this examination only graduates of reputable collegs will he allowed to take tho examinations. The following doctors are the members