The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-27

relenting, fundamentally and with
I out stint"
Treasured Friendship
One of the treasured memories of
DIR. Hurry was the friendship of DR..
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of
the telephone, who died several
yeers ago. ~
DIR. Hurry told of his friendship
with DIR. Bell sometime before his
death and asked it be used in his
obituary.
Tbs acquaintanceship of the two
men began at New England health
resort. A chance meeting developed
an unusual friendship.
Annually thereafter they met in
the East to discuss scientific prob
lens and relate the experiences of
their work DR.. Hurry was fire.
quently a guest in the Bell home
in Washington, d. G.
Funeral services for DR.. Hurry
probably will be held Monday, it was
said at the home. Arrangements are
being held up awaiting word from
Frank w. Hurry. a brother, of st.
Paul, MINI. Burial will be in Crown
Hill Cemetery \,
DR. Hurry was a thirty-second de-
gree Mason, being a member Of the
Mystic Tie Lodge. No. 398. He was
also charter member of the
Columbia Club, and belonged to the
University Club, the Contemporary
Club and the Literary Club.
Disappointment
Defeat of the full time health Of
ficer measure OF which DIR. Hurry
was author, in the 1928 Legislature
probably was the greatest disap-
pointment In his life.
When the bill was voted down
DIR. Hurry rose to his feet dramatic
ally-but could not speak. Heart
broken oven the defeat of efforts of
more than a quarter century, he
left the Chamber.
His race for election as Republican
Representative from Marion county
was based on the hope to enact the
measure.
Although members of the 1928
Legislature acknowledged the bill as
one OF the most progressive studies
in public health betterment ever at
tempted by the State, the bill went
down to an inglorious defeat. Legis-
lators argued it was too revolution
airy.
From all quarters of the United
States the measure was championed
by public health officials.
Gradual Improvement of health
conditions in the State has beer at
tributed to the fight of DIR. Hurry
before the Legislature. At nearly
every session of the State Assembly
he proposed some progressive
measure.
In 1899, DIR. Hurry obtained pas
sage of the first pure food and
drug act, enacted in the United
States. The law became a model
for other States and eventually was
passed by Congress.
Other Laws
other laws which DIR. Hurry
sponsored were: Quarantine law,
1909. the sanitary food law, 1909;
a law for the sterilization Of the
unifit. 1907 declared unconstitu-
tional by the State Supreme Court,
1926 a law defining nuisances,
1918; sanitary schoolhouse law, 1918;
medical school inspection law, 1911;
infant blindness law, 1911; hydropho-
bia law, 1911; anti-rat law, 1918; rem
ovated butter law, 1911; clean milk
can law, 1913; hygiene laboratory
law, 1915; and the antitoxin law,
1919.
For a few minutes he sat in the
speakers chair in the Senate
Chamber, when visiting the last
seventy-fourth Assembly few days
before it adjourned
Tribute Paid
There is not a spot in Indiana
which has not been influenced by the
life of DIR. Hurry" said Dean Fred
erick r. Henshaw of Indiana Dental
College, Pennsylvania and Walnut
SITS, who has known DIR. Hurry for
thirty years.
He knew dentists in every town in
Indiana and kept in touch with their
activities. His interest in dental ed
ucation began in the early eighties |
In 1881 he became teacher of chemis
try at Indiana Dental College and
was professor, of chemistry until the
time of his death.
AS president of the board of trus-
tees for more than thirty years, Dr. |
Hurry had an active interest in the
institution as a whole. For years
he worked for the combination of
the dental school with Indiana Uni
versity School of Medicine.
Victory for Him
Recent action Of the Legislature
for union of the two schools was
the result of his years Of effort
Dean Henshaw said only few days
ago DIR. Hurry expressed joy over
the plan to merger the institu-
tions whe nhe called at the deans
office for a little chat.
Whenever he came to the school
he would drop in my office and we
would talk fifteen or twenty minutes
no matter how busy / was. His |
constant flow of bright remarks ac-
cumulated into grains of philosophy. |
On the last occasion of our meeting
we congratulated each other over
the merging Of the schools" said
Dean Henshaw.