The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-23
Adoption of Fox Plan of Unified Health Urged by
 Medical Committee
DELEGATION LEAVES MEETING PLACE WHEN
 REFUSED ANSWER
foung Men of Community Club Alp. pear Before the Board and Urge County Officials to Preserve
 Health of County

 l Parke urging the adoption of the Fox | plan of unified health yesterday morn ing before the board of Revenue, hot words were exchanged as the result of the apparent discourtesy shown the delegation from the Jefferson County Medical society
 "This meeting has developed a mighty peculiar situation" said Dr. Par<e. his face pale and his voice trem- bling with emotion. "and want to say officially that chairman of the board of health I have some responsi- bilities before the law and some dig- nifty when I appear before another CO., ordinated branch of government. I must say that it is mighty peculiar situatiOn---
 Dr. Parke then left the room with pr. D. F. Talley, pr. W. B. McAdory and Dr. E. M. Mason, the members of the board of health.
 GWIN IS AMUSED As Dr. Parke and the medical delega- ton left the. room, President Jere w.. Gwin, of the board of revenue. smiled and said:
 Well, the old boy has some dignity and it's been ruffled. Now what do you think of that?" To the reporters and for publication, President Gwih said:
 T have nothing to say" Last night after he had cooled off, pr. Parke made the following statement to The Age-Herald regarding the affair be- frr ar1 op ,1,,x morning. pr. Parkes statement follows:
 STATEMENT OF DR. PARKE We appeared before the board of revenue this morning." said Chair man Parke, 'ro talk of cooperation,
 as the board of health and the board of revenue are co-ordinated branches of the county government The board or health, under the law supervises and elects all officials and the board of revenue, under the law, appropri- ates all the money.
 After bringing our respective duties to the public I gave a short review of the Fox plan of unified health system and urged it's adoption by the board of revenue as it had already been adopted by the board of health and the Jefferson County Medical so- ciety and the city of Birmingham. Following the bringing of these facts we requested an appropriation of s26, ,4S0 in order to install the unified health system and then finally re- quested at least an indorsement of unified health system, plan that has not as yet met the indorsement of the board of revenue
 We were unable to secure any ex-
 pression of purpose or any reason for
 the speeches. attitude adopted, and
 shall so report to the Jefferson County
 Medical society,"
 A DRAMATIC INCIDENT
 The scene that resulted in the departure of Dr. Parke and his delegation from the offices of the board of revenue yester- day at noon came following the presenta- ton of pungent arguments for the Fox health system by a delegation of young men from the Community club.
 One of the dramatic moments of the discussion between pr. Parke and the county board was when, after repeated requests by the chairman of the board of health for an expression of the attitude of the board of revenue, he was asked the following question: %N
 ''I'll ask you one question:" said Frank hewitt to Dr. farkc, after long and embarrassing silence follow ing the conclusion of the remarks of Dr. McAdory, "and that is, how are we to appropriate money for this health system that has already been appro- priateds"
 "I do not know," replied Dr. Parke, "ofYiciaIIy, of course. I do not know. hut as private citizen, If you you want my personal opinion I can give it to yOu--quicl<--plain and now" All the time Dr. Parke was speaking he was advancing toward the members of the board of revenue and it was evident that he was in deadly earnest. EMBARRASSING STATEMENTS There was another embarrassing silence and then President Gwin said: Frank Hewitt was elected by large majority of the people. If you have any charges to prefer against him, go ahead and try to have him removed. Person. ally, I will say that your opinion as a pri- vate citizen would have no effect on this board one way or the other." MT. Hewitt then interjected as re- ply to Dr. Parke, who was looking straight at him that he realized that there were several ways in which the money could be raised.
 But I do," said pr. Parke. T believe we should have some expression from the board, something to report back. Again there was silence while President