The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-06-23
NOTABLE SPEAKERS
WILL ADDRESS, BIG
CONGRESS N CITY
SOME OF MOST DISTINGUISHED
EXPERTS IN THE LAND HERE
AND COMING.
ADVANtE GUARD HAS ARRIVED
Exhibit At The Central High schoGt
viii be One Of the Most interesting
Features OF Sociological Meeting
List Of Speakers.

Never in its history has Columbia
had within its borders larger array
of distinguished students of the peOb.
lens of health, hygiene, sociology, 20.
cial life, etc., that will be here and
address the Sociological congress
which will convene at the Central
High School tomorrow night.
Among the distinguished speakera
who have arrived or who will be here
and address the conference are Dr.. l.,
J. Read, DR.. ]. A. Witherspoon, Col
Jno. S. Denton, probably Gov. Rye, DE-
H. H. s Shoulders, DR.. W. H. Singer
land, DR.. s. s. Crockett, DR.. WatsrL
field, c. c. Member and DR.. H. a.
Hibbs.
The speakers for the opening ses-
sion will be DR.. Witherspoon and DE-.
William H. Singerland, Of New York.
DIR. Read is the field secretary of the
Battle Creek Foundation for race bet
terment and will have with him the
identical exhibit shown at the Panama
Exposition. He is an able and force
full speaker.
DR.. Witherspoon is well known to
Maury countians, being one of tina
county's most distinguished sons.
DR.. Singerland is Of the Russell Sassr-
Foundation. New York, DR.. vincena
Kuhn is secretary of the Tennessea
Anti-Tuberculosis Association and En-.
Shoulders is secretary Of the state
board of health.
Col. Denton is chairman of the stats
board Of control, which operates ell 4
the penal and charitable institutions
Of the state and DR.. Crockett holds the
chair of nervous diseases at Wander e
bile, while DR.. Hibbs Of New York, iss
director of the American Inter-
Church College Summer School.
A unique and useful and unequalsdss
feature of the congress will be ther;
elaborate exhibits in the Central High.
school building which will opent
promptly, but not before o'clock to-
morrow, for public inspection.
Some exhibits as follows: One o.
the best Of the American Medical So
cietyi. Children's Bureau at Washing
ton, D. c.; Battle Creek Panama En-.
hibit; U s. Public Health Services
State Health Inspector Eskew's ex-
hibit on Pure Food and Drugs.
Some striking features Of Congress
besides the usual line of speakers fer
public programs are: l.. The reports
on local, city and county conditions
2. The Better Babies Contest. 8. The
town and county picnic dinner on Sat-
urday.
General Secretary Mccullough, OF
the Southern Sociological Congress,
and associate. Secretary G. A. Water.
field, arrived at the Bethel House this
morning. These, with w. G. Headrick,
the extension secretary, are the work.
ing staff.
At work heartily with them is the
large local committee, whose chair.
man is the Rev. w. B. Kicks and some
others of whom are W. p. Woodbridge,
Jno. w. Fry, Mrs. Jno, NJ Burns, Mrs..
D. D. Little, Miss Mamie Akin, Prsk.
R. L. Harris, Prof. L. s. Duke, Prof.
R. Lee Thomas, Miss Charlotte Hen
derson, Mrs. ]. J. Parish, Mrs. 3. p.
Turner, Mrs. Eugene Anderson, Mrs.
J. M. Robson, Miss Mary Jones.
A meeting of all local committees
was called for p. m. today at Meth
odist church.