The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22
LOCAL PHYSICIAN
 ELECTED ID HEAD
 ALABAMA DOCTORS
Doctor Tally Is Chosen Presi- dent of State Association and Birmingham Selected
 for 1922 Convention
By FRED H. GoRMLEY
Montgomery Bureau, The Age-Hers 221-2 First National Bank Buildi

%S A~AAO NOAANuAcN
 Montgomery Bureau, The Age Herald
 221-2 First National Bank Building
 Montgomery, April 21-(Special.) ) Dr. D. F. Talley of Birmingham was elected president, and Birmingham was selected as the place for the 1922 meeting of the Alabama Medical as- soclation Thursday at the closing ses- sion of the annual convention, which was the most interesting and fur nished more excitement than any of the four days meeting.
 The interest was started with a reso- lution of Dr. w, P. McAdory of Bir- mingham, which proposed that all members who have been in good stand ing for five years shall be eligible to any office within the gift of the as- sociation. This provoked lively dis cussion but in the end the result was as it has been for many years. Those who favor no change won and the reso- lution went down to defeat.
 OTHER OFFICERS
 In addition to the election of D:. Talley as president, the association named the following other officers: pr. J. A. Howle, Electic, vice pres ident; Dr. H. S. Ward. Birmingham, and Dr. w. R. Jackson of Mobile, mem- bers of the board of censors; pr. J. B. Moxley of Luverne, Dr. S. l.. Burde- shaw of Headland, pr. V. G. Gragg of Clanton, pr. N G. James of Hayne- vile, Dr. A. M Walk-- of Carrollton and pr. J. B. Burleson of Hamilton, members of the College of Councillors the body from which all officers of the association must be selected.
 Another interesting moment came when Dr. Harry T. Inge of Mobile pro- posed that the new president appoint q committee of nine for the establish ment of College of Medicine in Ala bama. Dr. Inge charged that under the present system one man in the United States virtually has control of the medical system because he is able to say where physicians shall be turned out. He was named as the secretary oI the council of medical education of the American Medical association,
 MOVEMENT BEGINS
 Ihls IS accepted as the start of q movement for the start of another col lege of medicine in Alabama. It is re- called that for many years Mobile was the home of the medical department of l the University of Alabama and that hundreds of men now practlcing medi- cine Tn Alabama stepped from it's doors With their licenses in their hands.
 The medical department was in Class A, but Che council of medical education or the American Medical association reduced the classification to B and the oepartment ceased to exist because a medical man who has come from a Class institution cannot obtain the prestige sufficient to complete with Siass A men nor can he obtain license to practice medicine in many states,
 Resolutons offered at the session Wed- nesday urging that Dr. William C. Georgas be placed in the Hall of Fame as Alapama's second representative and that the new state laboratory soon to be erected be named the Jerome Cochran laboratory in recognition of the work of Dr. Jerome Cochran of Mobile. father of the Alabama medical system, were adopted by the unanimous vote of the as- socation.
 Opposition to the plan for the estab- llshment of health insurance which has been advocated by socialists and has received some consideration in state leg lsiatures In recent months was voiced strongly by Dr. Frederick R. Green. general secretary of the American Med lcal association, at an open meeting Of the Alabama Medical association.
 ITS ONLY VISION"
 pr. Green said the plan was a vision intended to increase production but would not nave the effect intended He eN- plained the plan as follows: It is pro- posed to enact such legislation as will create state fund sufficient to furnish free medical attention, nurses and maternity experience to all families whose bread-winner makes less than sl,O0o year. The. employees would pay two-fifths of the total, the employers two-fifths and the public treasury one fifth.
 The speaker said>. the plan was inn practical and that the public would be | carrying the whole load in short time | as employs would insist on increases in wages which would pay their share, while employers would increase the prices ot their products to meet this increase in | wages as it's own two-fifths of the spe- | cial tax Dr. Green said several coun- tries of Europe have tried the plan, which originated with Bismarck in Ger many in 1883.
 The time has come when doctors must | forget individualism in their practice and | must look upon their profession as one ,f the benefit of all mankind instead of | the persons the physicians happen to nave as patients at the time, according -o Dr. Green. He said at this time physicians give more thought to the ef- 'ect of disease in community rather han the effect on that particular patient: | n other words, that instead of neglect ing those things which prevent the | spread of the disease he is now taking whatever precautions as are necessary |