The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-07-15
Opening Session is Attended
by Nearly 100 Members
of Association.
PRESIDENT MAX E 5
Annual Address and Routine
Business is Then Taken
Up Regularly.

of the West Virginia Funeral Direct
ors Association was called to order
in the assembly room of the Waldo
hotel here this morning at 10 o'clock
by John A. McCabe, president of the
association. The convention will last
for three days.
After the invocation which was
given by the Rev. II. T. sMcCleliand
pastor OF the FIRST Presbyterian
church, Frank h. Moore. former may
or Of the city, delivered the address
.of welcome g. H. Watkins, Jr., Of
Wheelings responded to the address
Of Welcome
The morning Rrosfam was enhVen-
ed BY vocal solos BY A. y Smith, OF
this city, and j. A. Boley, Of PhiIadel-
phia.
The appointment Of committees and
offering resolutions and amendments
which were on the program were car
ried over to the afternoon session.
The afternoon session started at
80 o'clock with roll call and nearly
a hundred of the state funeral di-
rectors and embalmers answered the
call. The roll call was followed by
an address by John A. McCabe, OF
Grafton, president Of the associations
as follows:
Presidents Address.
eve have passed another mile stone
on our tourney to the grave, we have
added another year OF lifes burden
woes. and trials to the calendar of
yesterday, we have unconsciously, and
unthoughtedly, no doubt overlooked
the fact, that Time has entered the
household OF our lives and has taken
three hundred ana seventy one days
from the allotted portion of our years,
since had the pleasure of address
ing you in Grafton, in July, 1912.
ut is with a feeling of mans very
best affection and good will, that !
extend to you today my brothers, my
congratulations and happy greetings
Il endeavored at our last meeting,
to call your attention to a few very
important recommendations in the
conduct OF our association, and to a
few needed changes in our bylaws
also impressed on you as forcibly
as / could the necessity of frequently
refreshing your memory with the
beautiful sentiments and inspiring
lessons contained in, our code of
ethics. / have every reason to be-
lieve that you have proated materially
by following my suggestions, and that
our ethical code has found a happy
abiding place in your hearts.
"a Cultivate Spirit.
aa"oOt ameudsHi bylaws will be pre-
scented to you at this meeting for your
q Hflsftf4eaioIa :tHsy committee to
1hpaB Isis f9atteri F9tAE referred have
earnestly and diligently labored for
your sole benefit, and for the better
ment Of conditions pertaining to our
association. j nope that the report
Of this committee will meet with your
unanimous approval, ara if we en-
deavor to cultivate a spirit of give and
take. / feel satisfied that the labors
of this committee will be entirely
pleasing to every member.
) During the last year my brothers.
our association work has not been
crowded with difficulties and obstacles
and at the same time its vibrations
have not been as calm and placid as
they might have been. What little
disturbances we have had, were only
sufficient to allow your officers to
fell that they were duty bound to
render some service, no matter how
minute, In return for the honor you
have bestowed on them.
1T is extremely pleasing and graf
flying to me to be able to announce
to you today, that the little faults and
troubles that the officers of our as
sociation were called upon to adjust
during the last year. can be compared
to the troubles of child whose cares
and woes are soothed by kind word
and a little good advice.
But, my brothers, still hear the
of feeling existing between
members Of this association and the
board OF embalmers, called your az
tention to this matter at our last
meeting, and it seems to be our only
concern at the present time, to me It
appears without moment, yet to some
members of our association it seems
to be a matter of grave concern. how
ever. it matters little. how small the
breach, or trifing the cause. that has
brought about MISUNDERSTANDING OF