The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-23
DENNY TO MEET WITH
COMMITTEE TONIGHT
To Discuss Details of Free
Dispensary Campaign
STARTS NOVEMBER II
Dinner Tonight at Country Club to
Members of Executive Committee.
To Open Headquarters Next Mon
day at the Hotel Hillman

DR.. George Denny. president of the Uni
versity of Alabama will be in Birming
ham tonight to attend the conference of
the executive campaign committee of the
University Free dispensary, which in
about three weeks will launch a whirl-
wind eght-day campaign for fund of
Sl25.OOo to erect and equip a new free dis
pensary at Avenue and Twentieth
street. south. The conference is to be
held at dinner at 7:90 o'clock tonight at
the Country club.
Chairman Culpepper Exum of the ex-
ecutfve campaign committee and his COM
mitteemen will discuss with DR.. Denny
the preliminary details of the campaign,
which it is expected will be started No
vember II, the date. however. not having
been permanently fixed.
To Open Headquarters
Monday morning headquarters of the
campaign will be established in the ban
quet room of the Hotel Hillman. and these
headquarters will be maintained from
then until the close of the campaign.
During the actual campaign luncheons
will be served TO the 800 workers every
day in this banquet room.
The committee which will meet tonight
consists of Mr. Exum chairman; Maj. e.
NJ. Tutwiler. Robert Jemison Sr. w. p.
'G. Harding. w. Ky Crawford, Walker
Percy, William Ryan, William II. Kettig,
Frank II. Crockard. Hill Ferguson, M.
v. Joseph. Hugh Morrow, James ]. Smith,
James Bowron, John w. Sibley, Sterling
Wood, r.. S. Munger, l.. C. Morris, Frank
p Glass Otto Marx, Richard W. Massey
and John l.. Kaul
1t was announced yesterday that the
right had been secured from the Blr-
mingham Railway, Light and Power COM
pany TO place banners and slogans on the
span wires of the trolleys during the cam
paign.
To Confer With Ministers
Chairman Exum and DR.. Denny. next
Tuesday at luncheon at the Young
Mems Christian association, will meet
with the ministers of the city, and a con-
ference will be held to inform the minis
ters of the details of the plan, what the
dispensary Is. what it is for. what 1t is
doing and what it wants to do. The min
isters and church workers of the city are
becoming much interested in the dispen-
sary, and it is believed they Will give
good support to the campaign after they
have been made thoroughly cognizant Of
all features of the dispensary work. They
already look upon a dispensary as fine
type of practical charity, and as an excel
lent opportunity for highly efficient
method of social service.
The dispensary heightens the standard
of a community, keeps down disease and
epidemics, and to do this 1t has to keep
people clean; 1t has to teach them how to
keep their bodies clean and their food
clean and their minds clean. to GER
tain extent. and the church workers be-
lieve that it is far easier to make a Chris
ton ont of a man with clean an0
healthy body than otherwise. The dispen-
sary is and will continue to be COM
pletely charitable institution. 1t is a
place where the poor and needy and I'M
fortunate of this community can secure
as skilled medical and surgical advice and
aid as can the wealthiest citizen Of the
city with his specialists.
The dispensary Is to keep people from
getting sick; the hospital is to take care
of them after they are sick. For that
reason It is claimed many of the largest
cities OF the country are today building
dispensaries in preference to hospitals.