The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-30
MOTION DED|CATES TUGGLE HOSPITAL
Says Question Of Negro Health Is Of Vital Im-
 portanCe To Whites

p0rtanCe To Whites
 The sixteenth street Baptist church was crowded to capacity Thursday night to hear pr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee institute, de- liver the dedicatory address of the Tuggle Institute hopital. Dr. Moton and his party arrived at noon and were met by several hundred colored people representing the local civic and fraternal organizations among the negroes.
 At'2:30 formal dedicatory exercises of the hospital were held in the audi torium at Tuggle institute, at which time Dr. Motor was introduced. The brief sketch of the early struggles of Carrie A. Tuggle, the founder, were described by w. B. Driver, as- sociate principal, who presided. Fol- Flowing the singing of plantation melodies and some selections by the Tuggle Institute band, a number of white friends who were present were introduced They included $. F.. Thompson Dr. B. L. Wyman and Dr. W. c. Gewin.
 At the close of the afternoon ses- sion, Dr. Moton and party were pre- sented to o. L. Bum, secretary manager of the Chamber of Com
 
 building Mr. Bum showed the vis- itors through the rooms and explained the functions of the several depart ments.
 Introduced By Fort.
 Judge William E. Fort introduced pr. Moton at the evening session and Robert W. Taylor of Sipsey, Ala, pre- sided. Judge Fort commended the work of Tuggle institute and re- ferred to the progress of the negro since emancipation. Booker Wash l ington and his work were praised and the speaker of the evening was presented to the audience.
 i Tuskegee's principal praised the citizens of Birmingham for the fine spirit of cooperation between the races, touched upon the subject of negro migration and commented at length upon the matter of health among the negroes. pr. Moton spoke | in part as follows:
 "The people of Birmingham have a great deal to be thankful for in l Tuggle institute. Both races have much to be thankful for The pres ence of a woman like the founder of community. The value of her la bors here for more than twenty years cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. They have been the kind of labors which money cannot buy and strangely enough, they usually come from people who themselves have no money but are dependent upon the gifts of others for the sue cess of their undertakings.
 Has Real Money Value.
 At the same time, there is a money value in the labors of Tuggle 1 institute This work had it's begin l af1 aff to n and dependent negro children from the temptations which beset boys and and girls of large city. The saving of hundreds of boys and girls from lives of error and shame is a saving to the city and to the state, | for nothing is more costly to the state than crime and the criminal | element. Then when these boys and girls are developed into manhood | and womanhood, the city and the county gain still more from this in | stitution. From all that 1 have l heard about it's work, there are num- bers of homes in this city that owe debt of gratitude for large part of their comfort and care to the ex- cellent training which Tuggle insti- tute has given to those who are now serving or have served in these homes. There are negro homes in this city whose foundations rest upon the interest and care and sym pathy of this good woman when young lives were in the making.
 "The city is further indebted to the founder and president of this in stitution for her work outside of the school itself. Her leadership of three organizations of women in this community extends her influence into thousands of homes and prac- tically every church of the city
 To-day we are gathered together to open up a new avenue of service for this institution or rather to pro- vide new facilities for the extension of the service which it has rendered in the past. This hospital is the promise of great blessings, not only to the institution, but to all who surround it. We have come at length to learn that strong, healthy bodies go hand in hand with clear minds and pure hearts. We have come to realize as Jesus Christ did that one of the first blessings that we can give to mankind is the au- vantage of a body that is soun1 and healthy. There Is much food for re- flection in the fact that the Savior of mankind. while he lived on earth, according to the record, gave as much attention to tie saving of mems bodies as he did to the saving of their souls. This hospital is es- to save men DOulcS anu I am sure that in many case, it will mean the saving of their souls also.
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 Affects White Race.
 Now this matter of health has a meaning for our race as a whole and not for our race only, but for the white race as well. In the provi- dence of God, white people and black people in the south touch each other very closely along certain lines al- though at present they may be wide ly separated along certain other lines. One of these lines of close as sociation is the matter of disease and health. Because of the presence of large numbers of negroes employed in the homes of the white people of the south, we cannot escape the fact that the health of the white people of the south, is most intimately tied up with the question of the health of the black of the south. So long as the food of white people is prepared by the hands of black people, so long as the garments worn by r any white homes of black people, so long will the health of black people affect the health of white people and white people must carry serious respon- sibility for the physical surround ings and the physical welfare of col ored people. And it works both ways. If an epidemic of typhoid fever or smallpox or the flu breaks out among colored people, sooner or later it makes it's way into the most exclusive neighborhood of white people. Or if, on the other hand some such form of disease is found