The Twin City star., 1913-02-22
INDICATIONS OF
REAL PROGRESS
Fifty Years Of Freedom Fore
cast Great Future.
power IN UNITED EFFORTS

lessons From the Achievements Of
Young Physician Who Has Gained
Wide Distinction For Special Knowl-
edge-Made Good az State Delegate
to international Medical Congress.
Louisville, Ky.-With all the forces
Of organized professional and business
life actively engaged In the various
lines Of work for the amelioration of
conditions among the masses Of Afro
Americans in the United States. great
or 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 In America.
The success Of DR.. Pinder M. Flack
of this city is evidence Of what one
can do whose mind Is full Of hope and
who believes In the great possibilities
which lie in the distance for the man
who knows how to overcome Difficult
ties. This fiftteth year Of freedom
should mean much to the race in moral
stamina and encouragement. The
story of DR.. p. M. Flack, which fol-
lows, is both interesting and inspiring:
DR.. Pindar M. Flack, son Of B. r.
and Mary G. Flack. was born at Alex
ander, N. O., Nov. Is, 1878; attended
the county schools from six to nine
years Of age, then took an academic
course at Asheville, N. @. 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 he 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 a department Of Loyola univer-
Ety.
He returned to Louisville and began
in larger way the practice of surgery.
Since that time he has been quite sue
cessful In his profession. He has filled
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 he was appointed by Acting
Governor w. ii. Cox as a delegate to
help represent Kentucky at the inter-
national congress on tuberculosis,
which convened In Washington. The
sessions covered three weeks. he ac-
cepted and was one Of the three col
ored delegates present among 5000
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 he
visited the following hospitals for the
care Of sick colored people-viz: The
Freedmen's at Washington, the Mercy
and the Frederick Douglass hospitals In
Philadelphia. He studied their struc-
ture, their methods Of sanitation and
modus operandi generally 30 that ne
might carry back to his home city help
ful hospital suggestions and to his CO.
laborers improvements in surgical tech
nique.
He is an Indefatigable worker for the
uplift Of bis people, being at present
an active officer In his church, on the
Y. M. G. A. board and president Of the
Falls City Society Of Physicians, Sur
geons, Pharmacists and Dentists.