The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1913-03-01

sdge-Made Good a. State Delegate
to international Medical Congress.
Louisville. Ky.-With all the forces
of organized professional and business
life actively engaged I'm the various
lines Of work for the ameliOration of
conditions among the MASSES OF Afro
Americans in the United States, great
er things which make for manhood and
citizenship may be expected Of the
race in the future.
Fifty years Of effort. with many
handicapS backed by true ambition.
self reliance and unfaltering hope.
have wrought wonders In the moral
and intellectual condition OF the col
Ored race I'm America.
The success Of DR.. Pinder NJ. Flack
OF this city is evidence OF what one
can do whose mind is full OF hope and
who believes I'm the great possibilities
which lie I'm the distance for the man
who knows how to overcome Difficult
ties. This tiftieth year OF freedom
should mean much TO the race in moral
stamina and encouragement. The
story of DIR. p. NJ. Flack. which fol-
lows. is both interesting and inspiring:
DIR. Pindar M. Flack. son OF b. X.
and Mary c. Flack. was born at Alex
ander. n. c.. Nov. 10. 1878: attended
the county schools from six to nine
years OF age. then took an academic
course at Asheville, n. G. He entered
Swift's Memorial college at fifteen
years OF age and finished the normal
department at seventeen
At nineteen he entered the medical
department OF Knoxville college and
graduated therefrOm at twenty-three.
he Immediately located In Louisville.
KY, and did a general practice Of med
icIne for four years, during which he
decided to specialize in surgery. In
1905 be gave up his practice tempora-
rily and went to Chicago and took a
special course In surgery and applied
anatomy at the Illinois Medical college.
now q department Of Loyola uniyer-
sity.
He returned to Louisville and began
In a larger way the practice Of surgery.
Since that time he has been quite sue
cessful In his profession He has filed
the chair Of surgery at the Louisville
National Medical college for four con-
secutive years and has been officially
connected with the Red Cross santa
rum for eight years.
In 1908 lie was appointed by Acting
Governor W. II. Cox as Il delegate to
help represent Kentucky at the inter
national congress OH tuberculosis.
which convened i'm Washington. The
sessions covered three weeks. He ar
eepted and waS one Of the three rul-
ored delegates present among 5yHJO
from all quarters Of the globe.
He took an active part In helping TO
devise means for the work Of that i'm
portant body. While In the east lie
visited the following huSpitals for the
care of sick colOred people viz: The
Freedmen's at Washington. the Merry
and the Frederick Douglass hospitals in
Philadelphia. he studied their strur-
ture, their methods Of sanitation aud
modus Operandi generally so that tie
might carry back to his home city help
full hospital suggestions and to bis Gu
laborers improvements in surgical tech
nique.
He is an interchangeable worker for the
uplift Of his people. being at present
an active officer In his. church, on the
Y. If. c. A. board and president OF the
Falls City Society Of Physicians, Sur
geons. Pharmacists and Dentists-