The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-07-25
FRIDAY, JULY rs, 1913.
President Bandy Explains,

In another column appears a com
municatiou from Dr. G. H. Bandy, the
president of the Volunteer State Med
ical Association, in which he at
tempts to justify his position that an
advertising bin due this paper should
not be paid In reference to the 40
nation made to a representative Of a
daily paper in this city the president
attempts to justify the acceptance of
that donation on the ground that 1t
was for services rendered to papers
in Memphis, Chattanooga, Knoxville
and Columbia. The president knows
full well that no such arrangement
was mentioned at the Association,
and that he is making words for the
daily paper representative The
president must remember that this
donation was made without any re-
striction. whatsoever, and in the at
tempt to clear up the situation he
llakes bad matters worse. We do
Tot desire to discuss this at length,
for it is not our purpose to do any
one harm. We are merely contend
ing for what is justly due us.
Again, the president says that the
Association desired to make a dona-
ton to the Globe, but that it was re-
fused This is true, for this paper
does not exist on donations Its poll
cy is to render the best news service
possible and to charge for advertis-
ing matter at reasonable rate. The
president admits that something was
said about advertising matter, but he
goes further and says the Association
took no action, when he knows that
the matter was left in the hands of
the president at that time and com
.mittee to be adjusted, and it was he
and the committee who ordered the
resolutions with cut of the late DR.. r.
r. Boyd printed For this service
a bill was submitted to him which
ne endorsed and instructed that it
he presented to the secretary.
president Bandy says in his com
munication that the Editor of the
Globe rendered him a bill. He is In
error in this for it vas not considered
that DR.. Bandy who is now president
was responsible for debt made by
the Association before he was elect
ed to the position he now holds. We
considered it the duty Of the retir.
ing president under whose admins
tration the advertisement was au
thorized to o. X. the bill. The new
president did not see it until it was
presented to him by the secretary
after the meeting had adjourned. The
president acknowledges that it is &
Just bill and That it should be paid
but he says, THE. fault is yours thai
this advertising was not paid for al
the meeting when the members o
the Association wanted to make you
a donation" Eut he overlooks thu
fact that the matter could not bC
adjusted at that time because a mem
Der of the committee said that h,
was not certain how much space tn
matter would take up, and at tn
time when the donation was spoKel
of and the advertising was mentione
by the committee, it was stated b.
a member Of the Association and on
in a position to know that the &C
vertising with the Globe had bee
provided for. This statement wa
assented to by the president. All c
this took place before DR.. Bandy wa
indicted into Office.
The president asks the editor
he does not know that meeting car
not be advertised in a paper afte
the meeting has been held. This
a matter that is entirely optioni
with the memt ers Of an organization
They can advertise just as well afte
the meeting as they can before. If
man has big sale and succeeds h
advertise a meeting after it has bee
that it will make business for hil
in the next sale; so If the officers
an organization desire to they ca
advertise a meeting after it has ee
held in the hope that It will slim