The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-12

mingham?"
 "Nothing," said Fred Winlxler, the we'll
 known attorney, "but when you consider that they are working on the most dif- flcult problems that could possibly COZ front legislative body, they are cer- tainly to be excused
 "I feel quite sure that before the ses- sion is closed Birmingham will be given
 square deal, and all her wants which are fair to the rest of the state will be granted.
 "I think they should pass a commission
 bill and that there should be five com
 missioners, appointed by the governor. am not the only person in Birmingham who is in favor of this plan, and I be- lieve it is the safest and the sanest 'I consider the passage of the loan shark bill the most important question before the legislature. There is no more inhuitous practice In existence in Ala bama, and beyond all doubt it should be immediately curbed. The men who are l living on our poor, ignorant population, extracting five and six times as much money as the original loan should be run out of the state.
 "I am not in favor of the bill to create Jefferson county road commission. l think the county commissioners or Board
 of Revenue is perfectly capable of hand ling this money, and I am eager to see
 the $l,0Oo,oOo bond issue voted by the people"
 ITO my knowledge the legislature has done nothing for Birmingham said J. D. Collins yesterday. Though they have
 been IS days in session, I have seen no bill passed and approved which would benefit this city.
 However, I think that Birmingham | could be very well satisfied if the legisla- | ture would just let us alone. l do favor change from our present aldermanic
 
 by the report, such does not exist here.
 The medical college is adjoining the col | lese while the one in Mobile Is four
 blocks away. Here the county maintains
 the hospital and is glad for the medical college faculty to have charge. In Mo
 bile the authorities want new build ing. In Birmingham the medical author ities instead of using the profits of the
 school on themselves have purchased a l 100- foot lot next door for extensions In 1 addition to putting in 5000 worth oi l equipment.
 l In a map prepared in the report by Mir. 1 Flexner is shown the present location
 of all medical colleges. And another
 shows what should be the location. In | that map Alabama has two. One at Bir- mingham and one at Mobile. The feas-
 ible map strikes out the Mobile hos
 pital and leaves the birmingham one.
 The state of Kentucky Is not allowed any,
 nor is tho state of North Carolina. and
 many addition states. They are scattered | over a wide area and In accordance, it
 is said, of what should be the location | of all medical colleges in the United States
 The Birmingham Medical college au- | thorities will exert a dignifed plan to | keep the legislature from giving addi- | tional help to Mobile. It is stated that if the entire learning of medicine is concen | trated in Birmingham there is a chance of
 securing a Carnegie endowment, but that | is a secondary consideration. The chief plan is to make Birmingham the logical | point and save the state an immense ap- propriation. and get in line for endow-
 ments.
 l It is probable that the Chamber of | Commerce will be shown how well 1t
 would be for Birmingham to take po- sition in the fight, rather than the med | ical fraternity, whose stunning of pub licity is well known and understood.