The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-20
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Dr. McAdory Says Effort Is Always Made to Inject Personalities Into
 Fight

Dr. W. P MeAdory yesterday made the following statment on the situ- ation within the Alabama Medical as sociation:
 There has been q great deal said in the press of the state concerning the supposed fight in the state medical association that is to be pulled off here. April 9.
 This Is no new fight, but to my personal Knowledge has Teen active ly waged in the association for the past seven years. al which time those leading the fight were termed the tag nostics,' anarchists. or what they want to call us. We got six votes out of l91 Votes but gradually education will do great things and now the fight is not Jefferson county but general
 q notice from the transactions that this same fight has been going on for over 25 years.
 Jefferson County Medical society. through it's representatives, started the fight and unfortunately as in ev- erything else in the state all that you have to do is to say Jefferson county wants 10 control things and 1t is like throwing a red flag in a bulls face, even if Jefferson county pays one-fifth of the taxes of the state and has ;i H.
 Now what the Jefferson County Medical society has fought for:
 Il. To have each county society rep resented according to the membership of the county society, or on the basis of the population of the county. Az the present time each county in the state has two representatives; Jeffer- son county with 800 members has the same as Cleburne county with five tpb ,i As we see it the Cleburne county so- ciety pays dues $1.50: the Jefferson County Medical society about S450
 70 According to the charter of the association, only eounsellors are elig- ible to hold office. There are today 139 counsellors in the state medical association and the Jefferson County Medical society, with a membership of 300. does not see how. out of 2500 doe tors in the state, 139 should be the only chosen few to receive honors or emoluments from the association Seven years ago the Jefferson County Medical society offered, through it's representatives, two resolutions: First that the county society be represented according to membership; second, thst { every member of the association that had been a member of an affiliated county society for five years should he eligible to hold the offices of the association.
 ''In the fight seven years ago and each year since the principles involved were ignored and personalities were brought in even at the expense of state ink and postage
 50 you see now the so-called fight in the state medical association pr Sanders has brought it around as a fight against him personally, not a fight to change the method of organ 'zation to suit the times. Unfortunate ly, as I have before said the doctors and the people of Alabama have be. come educated until they will no long. CT stand for it.
 Seven years ago the slogan thai Jefferson county wanted to control the state association, which worked so wei at that time, no longer holds good he physicians of the state recognize the fact that at the time of the or ganization NJ. A. $. A. the plan was good. but that now there Is no place for the present method of organiza- ton
 With 2500 doctors in the state tC te told that only 139 of the number are qualified to hold office of the as. sociation, does not sit well and tht sop, that if you will keep quiet, we will elect you counsellor sometime. has worn out.
 "The idea that a man has to be member of his county society five years before he can be elected a coun sellor: that he must be a counsellor for 10 years before he can be stat, health officer. which places only s men out of 2500 who are, according t. law, eligible to hold the cffice of stat, health officer.
 There is no one ln the state bur
 that will admit that D-. Sanders is { man of high personal Integrity ant good health officer for the state, bu he cannot live always and the thu, has come for some changes to be mad' in the methods of organization, so tha when he should drop out we could 9. least elect an efficient health officer q saw an article purported to have | come from Dr. Sanders in which h, l said that pr. Yarbrough's article il | regard to his resigning and the loving cup was instigated by Jefferson county | for political purposes. It is the sam'
 red flag in the bulls face. holla tt I the people of the balance of the stat, | that Jefferson county wants to contro | the earth.
 "The membership of the Jefferson county society is going to do wha I they think best for the medical pro | fession and the public health of tn people of Jefferson county and mak | such recommendations for the sane t te accomplished for the people of thu state regardless of personalities O. prejudces which pr. Sanders has en | deayor to inject into this proposition | and feel that these will be ignore,
 hen it comes to the final results" I