The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-03
DIR. HOBBS GIVES
 HIS OPINION ON
 BAPTIST HOSPITAL
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hospital costing $5Oo,o6o, in addition l to the site, was made possible. Such l a hospital would have easily stood out as. the largest and best hospital in tho city The railroad facilities of Bir- Imingham are the best in the south. Dozens of passenger trains carrying sleepers come and go from Birming- ham every day, affording quick and mfortable ingress and egress for sick people. It's present hospital ed capacity is one bed to each 1,600 of lpopulation, while the hospital bed ca fpacity of Alabama Is one bed to each 1,261 of population. It's surgeons are second to none In the south. and it's citiz~as have the. hospital habit.' The Baptists of loyal to the denomination as any in Alabama or elsewhere. The Birnng- ham district subscribed more than i$soO,o 900 of the s75.ooo.0oo campaign, or practically one-fifth of all subscribed in Alabama
 An article by g. Y. Jameson in the icurrent issue of the Alabama Baptist ,states that of the 2057 churches com | posing the Alabama Baptist convcn- ition. 5s gave $3s1,1s0 of the total of $7S1.564 given by all the churches of Alabama last year. Nine of these 5S l churches are in the Birmingham dis trict, and these nine churches gave a total of $132,067 of the $SS1,1S0. or more than one-third of that amount tand more than Sone-sixth of the total
 of 47S1.564. This is the record oi only nine of our churches. The others did equally as we'll whom their re- sources are considered. There Is nc icity in our state that can offer more decided advantages for the location Eof hospital than Birmingham. In jdeed the writer does not believe any other city can equal Birmingham's ad- iivantages as a location for our hos, pital.
 BOARD OF TRUSTEES
 i It was the failure of the board oX trustees of the hospital to live up to the instructions of the convention that brought the matter to the attention ot the board of directors of the conven- 1 in Article VI of the constitution of the
 Alabama Baptist State convention This article makes the board of iirec- tors the convention ad interim, with all the powers of the convention. The article also constitutes the board Of \ directors its agent to sell property etc. Article TX of the same constitu- tion confers upon the convention the broadest powers over all the institu- tions fostered by the convention These latter powers inhere in the board of directors between the annual sessions of the convention. These powers are never exercised unless there Is some unusual reason therefor, When the board of trustees of the hospital failed to carry out the in> structions of the convention, which instructions were adopted by unani- mous vote of the convention upon the unanimous recommendation of the commission now the board of trustees the board of directors felt 1t necessary to review the action of the said board of trustees. This was done. and the whole matter was referred to the nex, convention.
 1 The writer regrets the unfortunate Icondition that now prevails, but he must insist that the blame therefor liz any blame there is, rests not upon 1 the convention. nor upon it's board of directors. nor upon himself. (Sisned) J. R. HOBBS.