The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-01-22
ABLE ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY
PROF. wooDLEY, DR.. WAT.
kiNs AND DR.. HIeHToWER.
DR.. DONALD ON NORMAL
Senator From This District Believes
Big School Will be Well Cared For
BY State Legislature. s233,ooo is
the Amount That Has Been Asked.

In point of enthusiasm, interest and
attendance, the second meeting of the
Educational Committee of the Com
mercial Club far surpassed any like
effort ever before attempted in this
city. The Auditorium was we'll filed
when Rev. e. D. Solomon, chairman
of the meeting introduced Prof. Wood
ley, the first speaker of the day.
Prof. F. 3. WoodIey.
Prof. Woodley began by saying that
the world today cared great deal
more for money than for human life,
and quoted statistics to back up his
assertion. He showed that out of
every 5000 murders only so were ex-
ecuted for the offense. He said
it was a crying shame that laws are
being so regularly enacted to sub
serve special interests and leaving
those that were of paramount import
ance to be broken at will, with little
effort being made to enforce them. 1t
is said that in the couaties where
Birmingham and Memphis are located
there are more murders in a given
length of time than in the whole of
England, with all its vast popula-
ton and congested conditions. Why
don't the city of Hattiesburg have
meat and milk inspectors, who would
see that the premises of the dairies
and the markets were in sanitary con-
dition? Why is it that farmers, who,
innocently perhaps, kill cattle infect
ed with tuberculosis and disease, are
allowed to peddle it from house to
house without any precaution being
taken to prevent transmitting
the disease to human beings? He
urged that the citizens of this COM
munity get together and lay this i'm
portant matter before the city author
tiles. He said there should be an
examiner appointed whose duty it
would be to examine each child be-
fore it was allowed to enter school.
To see that the child had no symp-
toms of typhoid, diptheria or the
many prevalent diseases caused
by diseased eyes and throats. He
cited an instance of one family
living in Hattiesburg which has five
children; two OF them were Ill at the
same time with scarlet fever and the
other three were allowed to go on to
school with no precaution or care
taken to prevent the spread of the
disease to other families.
He pointed out another instance
where the city authorities should take
active measures. Referring to the
grocery and fruit stands that allowed
their goods to remain uncovered and
unprotected from contamination by
iies-the great purveyor of that dread
disease, typhoid fever, he advocated
the enactment of stringent city laws
which would compel dealers to pro
tect the lives of the consumers OF
their wares. The present sewerage
system he said is alright, but 1t does
not reach far enough; does not take
in near all the territory II
should. He compared the value Of
man at different ages of life and end
ed by saying that from material view
of the situation, it was a great dea.
cheaper to pay taxes than it was tC
pay funeral expenses. Prof. Woodley
had the close attention of the audi
ence from the beginning to the end o
his address and at its conclusion wa.
heartily applauded.
Or. A. r. Watkins.
Rev. e. d. Solomon in INTRODUCING
DR.. A. F. Watkins paid that gentle
.man an eloquent tribute and referre,
to him as Bishop MATERIAL and hor
ed the day would come when DIR. Wat
kins would preside over the delihsra
tions OF the Mississippi Conference. DR.
Watkins subject was "Bible Laws O.
Sanitation" The Jew believed in tn,
old days that health was an especis
blessing Of God and-that disease wa
curse. He cited instances in tn
Bible where the people were admor
ished 70 eat only certain things The,