The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-11-24
TENNESSEE STATE
VETERINARIANS HERE
IN ANNUAL SESSION
OPENED AT BETHEL HOUSE THIS
MORNING AT 10000
O'CLOCK.
MAI OR ELECT ntlMAN WELCOMES
interesting Facts Embodied in the
Presidents Address Showing the
Progress and Advancement of the
rofession-Lecture at Court House
TUESDAYS Daily.l

Tuesdays Daily.)
The State Veterinary Medical Soci- |
ETY. opened it's sessions at the Beth |
ell House parlors this morning at a
few minutes after 10 o'clock with
prayer from DR. A. G. inwiddie.
After the prayer DR.. Dinwiddie ask
ed that he be allowed to say few
words and on being granted the priv
ilege, said that he was a little more
than II years OF age and that he
could remember when a 'hoss doctor"
would hardly dare to come in at the
back door, and that he congratulated
the society on the fact that they not
only came in at the front doors now,
but they had become to be recog-
nized necessity. Following DR.. Din
widdie, Mayor-elect Jos. M. Dedman
delivered the address of welcome in
a few we'll chosen words. In part
he said:
Il assure you, gentlemen of the Vet
Urinary Association that it gives me
great pleasure to welcome to our city
and county a fraternity which is so
important factor in the life of every
community.
"The Importance of extended inves
tigation in the science of your art has
been recognized since the early ages,
but if | am not mistaken the first vet
Urinary college was established in the
latter part of the eighteenth century
in Great Britain. and in Great Britain
as we'll as in it's colonies the veteri-
marian has long held a position along
side of his medical brother. Latter
day research revealing as it has the
relative effects Of human and animal
diseases, has placed the veterinary
profession on a plane second to none.
Every layman must realize the
acute Importance of having in his
community a scientific veterinary sur
geon for the human family is heir to
many diseases that are prevalent in
the lower animals. Recognizing this
fact. it shall be my purpose, as an Of
1fcial Of this town to lay more stress
on the sanitary condition of the va
rious animal headquarters than has
been done in the past.
"Maury county, which you have
Ihonored with your presence, has pro-
Iduced many illustrious sons whose
Lives have emtlazoned it's name on
the map of the world. This hotel in
which you are to hold your sessions
islands of the former site of the little
log cabin law Office of President Jas.
TX. Polk. But while Maury county
has been made famous by her sons,
tshe has been made no less famous by
Having produced the king of Pacing
lSires" Brown Hal 2:121a, and his son,
Star Pointer 1904, the worlds first
1.-TWO minute harness horses. The
champion COWS, Landseers Fancy,
blossoms Bell and Ethel End, are also
IMaury county products.
/ Il welcome you, gentlemen of the
Tennessee Veterinary Medical Asso-
citation, not only to the good county of
Maury, which has been so APPLY call
ed by John Trotwood Moore, our own
poet, the "dimple of the universe"
but also to the beautiful little city of
Columbia, and in behalf of Mayor Bid
die, whose presence here is prevented
by sickness, l present to you the keys
of the city"
DR., Giltner. mayor Of Murfreesboro,
and a member of the association, re-
sponded most appropriately. His
speech was a short but a happy one.
The address of the President, DIR.
George r. White, was full of inter-
esting facts concerning the progress
of veterinary practice and its proper
recognition in the State. Twenty
years ago there we're not more than
2 four or five qualified veterinarians in
Tennessee; today there are 1873, and
a large percent of these are graduates
of. recognized veterinary institutions.
Six years ago was the first leg:sla-
ton ever enacted relative to veteIina-
ry practice, ana in 1911, this act was
+ amended, thus improving the rogula-
tons and putting the act on higher
plane and emphasizing its Importance
in a more satisfactory way And
while this law was extremely liberal
there has been no disposition on the
part of the profession to impose on