The Nashville Globe from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 3

NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1913. (mi in W. Thompson, Florida; John D. Wright, Georgia. PHARMACEUTICAL.

David A. Adams, Mississippi; Lee Alexander, Missouri; S. R. Coleman, Florida; Malevia E. Dye, North Carolina; Edwin H.

Durham, Texas; A. Lucius Ferguson, Tennessee; Florence Tenia J. Forde, Mississippi; Aaron Goodwin, Florida; A. J. Houston, Tennessee; Samuel Oscar Johnson, Ten rXto "Al i mmmmJ sit mi The Crack iL-'J Weed ilfore Coore Physicans.

As far as can be estimated, the-e are now practicinngn medicine in the Southern and Southwestn-i States, only about fifteen hundred educated colored physicians, to administer to the wants of a'jout eight millions of their own or one pyhsician to about 5,500 of the colored people. TM3 indicates tlat there is only about one-tenth as many colored doctors as there are physicians in this country for the entire population. With the exception of some of the higher Institutions of learning, supported by benevolent societies in the North, colored children and youth are taught entirely by teachers of their own race. The pulpits of Negro churches are served entirely by preachers of their own color. As scion as It is practicable it eeems advisable that the same condi- Professional Success.

In the early years of this work doubts were frequently expressed regarding the ability and fitness of colored physicians for the successful practice of this most responsible calling. The experience of the last thirty-two years show that these fears were unfounded. Their success in their professional work has been greater than their most sanguine friends had even hoped. They have been well received and kindly treated by the white physicians of the South, and have been liberally patronized by Dr. I.

Garland Penn Advocates the Progressive Doctor. Dr I Garland Penn, who was to have" been the commencement orator of Meharry for this year, advocates the progressive doctor. No man who nfQfcorrv in recent years r'-wXome than Dh. Penn Geo. W.

Hubtord Hospital Complete and in Service Continually. nessee; Benjamin F. Ledbetter, Mississippi; William Alonzo Patterson, Florida; E. A. Phillips, Alabama; S.

H. Reid, Alabama; William F. Richie, Texas; Norton Taylor, Mississippi; Charles A. Thomas, Pennsylvania; W. Thomas, Tennessee; Earllnn NURSE TRAINING.

Miss Hulda Margaret Lyttle, Ten. nessee; Miss Rhoda A. Pugh, Missis. Iippi; Mrs. Lula Woolfolk, Tennes see.

i AJr fi' Meharry Band. 1 tions shall prevail for physicians, dentists and pharmacists, i They are needed not only to care for their own people in time of slck-; neps, but also to advise them to 'adopt proper sanitary regulations and instruct them in matters pertaining to personal hygiene, and especially to render efficient aid in the prevention i and spread of contagious diseases. In I the fight which is now being made 1 against the Great White Plague Tu-J lierculosis the intelligent Negro phy sician can render most valuable ser-vvce. It is the testimony of the older Southern physicians that pulmonary consumption was almost an unknown I flicnQL-n orrmncr fho pnlnrnrl runn Via- fore emancipation. It is now one of the most common and fatal diseases, especially in the large cities and towns of the South.

their own people, and have been a potent factor in promoting good understanding between the two races. Their professional Incomes range from $500 to $5,000 annually, the average income probably being about $1,000 a year; they have provided themselves with good libraries and have well-furnished and equipped offices. The greater portion of them have purchased real estate and havo comfortable and in some cafes elegant homes. when he was here a few weeks ago. Being the newly elected corresponding secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society, his coming was that of an official.

Dr. Penn is making good in the great office to which he was i 1 1 s-j Vs' if eleeted at the General Conference in Minneapolis. He has already demonstrated in the eight months he has been in office that he is trained in executive and administrative work and as an organizer of forces he has ciety is now facing the greatest opportunity in its history. Likewise the Methodist Kpiscopal Church is undergoing radical changes in organization and education upon the benevolent mission of the church in world evangelization. Two laymen of superior ability as organizers are in the forefront of this work.

One Is a white man, in the person of Dr. S. Earl Taylor, one of the corresponding secretaries of the Foreign Mission Eoard at New York, and the other is a man of the Negro race. Dr. I.

Garland Penn, one of the corresponding secretaries of the Freed men's Aid Society. Each has been detailed by his Board to work under the Commission on Finance created at the last General Conference, as the clearing house of the benevolent boards of Methodism in the presentation, organization, and education of Methodists upon the joint benevolent appeal of that great church. Besides, Dr. Penn is the organizing genius of the Freedmen's Aid Society In the raising of the $100,000 in the twenty colored conferences of the church to secure the promised $400,000 from all Methodism, covering the $:.00.000 Jubilee Fund, authorized by the last General Conference for the education of the Negro. This fund is being arised independent of the regular Freedmen's Aid collections and is to commemorate the Semi-Cen-tennial Jubilee of the freedom of the Negro.

The Freedmen's Aid Society is facing the greatest prosperity in its history. Dr. Penn has a notable career back of him. In twenty-eight years of public service he has held but four positions, having been so successful in each as always to have resigned to take the other that was a promotion. For ten years he was a Principal in city schools at Lynchburg, resigning to go to ifche Cotton States and International Exposition, at Atlanta, in 1895, as National Commissioner.

At the close of the Expo sition he was awarded a gold medal for excellence of the exhibit. Shortly afterward he was elected one of the; for the men of wealth who are general secretaries of the Epworth making opssible the great strides in League and held office for sixteen medical research, years until promoted to his present "Along, also, with the progressive-position. 1 npss of the physician goes the evi- DR. I. GARLAND PENN, Corresponding Secretary Freedmen's Aid Society, M.

E. Church. He is an author, organizer, and platform man. As an organizer, Dr. Penn has to his credit the National Medical Association, along with other national assemblies.

Aside, therefore, from his official position as corresponding secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society, it is particularly fitting as the organizer of the medical men, to be Interested in the Meharry commencement, the semi-centennial year of the Freedom of the race. Dr. Penn believes every doctor should be a progressive. In speaking to a Globe representative he said: "We are living in a new and exceptional age. The age is new, because of the discovery almost dally of new truth on the one hand, and the urgent and pressing demands on the other for the discovery of truth, yet I hidden and unrevealed which the I needs of mankind demand.

Some one i has said everything is running at high pressure. It would seem too I much so, for high pressure may not, and many times does not, conduce to the finding of that truth in do I main that helps man. "It is the steady going, thoughtful, i persistent specialist and plodder that i is blessing mankind as he gets from what seemed to be oblivion, light and illumines our pathway. He gets the whole truth and makes the age new and exceptional, while the high pressure man gets but half truth and leaves us in mystery and doubt. High pressure is on the side of demand for truth, and In this sense only is con-: ducive to the finding of the truth.

The I world in all of its ramifications and in 1 all its problems needs only the truth to bring it right. "It is evermore the question of the inspired one. "0, that I knew where I might find Him." "As we find Him, we find his truth; 1 as we find His truth we bless mankind and as we bless mankind we remove burdens difficulties, disease and drought, and install in their place joy, happiness, love, peace health and life in individuals, families, races and nations. Thus we make the age new ex-I cepbional because truth is at work, Of the Eo-called learend professions I seeking to bless mankind and make I the age new and exceptional but one is beyond that of the physician and that one is the minister. i On sober thought as to the op portunity of the physician, one is tempted to place him in importance equal to the minister.

"But with us all it is the use of the opportunity that makes teh importance of our profession rather than the profession itselt. "In that sense I dare say there are many physicians a fhousand-fold more valuable to humanity than a similar number of ministers and vice versa. "Humanity is interested In the physi cian to-day as never before. The struggle is on between the material and the spiritual. Men are after dol lars without regard to the health of themselves or their fellows.

The insistence that we be spiritual which is to be God-fearing, simple and temperate ourselves, and thus seek the same for others, and to do unto others as we would others do unto us, has not the weight it should have, so that we may have a safe check upon ourselves in the mad rush for things material. "For material gain we segregate others, shutting out sunshine and air, drainage and natural sanitation, yea, the rights of others to liberty, health and happiness never enters into our thought when the question of Income pre-occupies, because the spiritual i3 lacking to make us see we are our brother's keeper. We disobey and we pay for it in disease of body and mind, hence the physician becomes a man sent of God, if he knows God's truth in the world that is an offset to man's error once committed. "In proportion as the physician knows the truth, he Is a Progressive. In the last heated campaign some one asked.

"What is a Progressive?" and the answer was "a progressive is one who says he is." The physician does not have to say he Is his discoveries make him so. "In no field of intellectual endeavor has more progress been made than in in medical research. "Some one has said, in a prominent magazine of the country, That with the present legislation in behalf of public health the 'discovery of serum after serum for the the cure of diseases hitherto regarded fatal, the education of the Individual on preventative rather than cures, it will be a disgrace to be sick and we shall all die of old age. "In discussing the physician as a Progressive, due regard should be had mankind. But recently we have had the spectacle of a man willing to pay a million if a son-in-lay could be cured of tuberculosis.

"In our thought we have been dealing with the physician In general and all that applies to any physician of our race. The Negro physician has made the greatest advance of any professional man In the race. He comes inOo the community tested by rigid examination. He has become a property owner fast. His contract with the dominant race in an ethical and business way has given him opportunity.

He has and Is making good. "There Is nothing in my life's career than I am prouder of, than haying called together at the Atlanta Exposition, In 1895; the Negro Phy- 'l BISHOP WALDEN, for Whom Walden University Is Named. dence that Deonle are willing to pay the price for that which really blesses sicians and organized what is 'now known as the National Negro Medical Association. "It is the most learned body of Ne-eto Drofessional men that meets in an organized way in America. "It is told of a distinguished Bishop that he took his son.

to now an emi nent man of letters, to Yale or Harvard and entered him when but a lad tor his course of training. "After making all arrangements and seeing to the boy's comfort, when he was about to bid him good-bye. the father said: 'son remember whose boy you "Later in life, when the father was relieved of duty and placed upon the retired and honored list of Bishops in his church, and was returning home to rest, the son, now a distinguished man himself, wired his father these words 'Come hiome, father, Temem-ber whose father you are." "Tin- young nu-n of Meharry should remember whos graduates they are. 1 feel sure Meharry and the Freedmen's Aid Society want always to lie proud of you, for one of the first questions I ask as I come into contact with physicians in my travels who are progressives if thpy hail from Meharry. Meharry will never go out of business as long as Methodism lives, but that grand and old man, Dean Hubbard, is approaching his fiftieth year of service and he wants to see Meharry unon the firmest foundation possible before he retires.

Meharry Annual Banquet. Another demonstration or the genuine hospitality and the big-hearted-ness of Dr. and Mrs. George W. Hubbard was seen on Thursday night when at the Meharry Auditorium the thirtieth annual banquet was tendered to the graduating class or the Meharry Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges.

One hundred thirty-eight graduates and three hundred twenty citizens responded to the invitation of Dr. and Mrs. Hub-lard to dine with them. No more beautiful night has presented itself this year. Fair Luna was at her best, apparently all in harmony with the occasion.

Promptly at o'clock Ihe guests began to arrive from every section of the city, and by 8.30 o'clock the spacious auditorium was a veritable garden of flowers, enlivened by beautifully gowned women and men in the conventional attire. As soon as the guest- began to arrive they were met by Dr. Josie Wells, who in turn introduced them to Dr. Kumler, president of Walden University, Dr. George W.

Hubbard, Dean of Meharry, and his wife. The reception hour continued from 7:30 o'clock until past 9 o'clock, prolonged on ac rm Si tyv 1 1 Vlt ft Meharry count of the tardiness in the arrival of the 1913 class picture, which is usually exhibited at these annual occasions. It was 9:15 o'clock when the picture was borne into the auditorium amid roar of applause from the visitors and friends of the graduates. They could scarcely wait until it waB placed 011 the platform that they surg ed around it, painting out their acquaintances and friends In the class. After half hour had elapsed in viewing the picture it was announced that while the march was being played It would be led by Dr.

and Mrs. Hubbard, who weuld be followed by the special guests who would sit at their table, the members of the faculty, the class and the guests. In the banquet hall which was brilliantly lighted and I beautifully decorated for the occa sion, the scene was inspiring. Unassuming and conscious of the" fact that a new epoch was dawning In Dean Hubbard arose and spoke modestly, saying that "if this present class was no mistake and un less they themselves were deceived, it was the most brilliant, thorough and competent, and certainly the largest in the history ot the school." At this announcement another lusky applause was given. After a few preliminary remarks by Dean Hubbard, he concluded by calling upon the class speaker of the evening, Henry A.

Walker, A. of Tennessee, who gave to the magnificent audience perhaps the most beautifully painted and well rendered banquet speech that has been heard in this banquet hall. Following him Dean Hubbard called upon the oldest mmeber of the faculty in point of service now living, Dr. H. T.

Noel, who spoke on behalf of the present class. For the Pharmaceutical Department Dr. Wm. Sevier spoke, while Dr. J.

Alonzo Napier responded on behalf of the Dental Department. For the Nurse Training Miss Minnie D. Woodard spoke. As a member of the Board of Examination of Students, Dr. John Ira Watson spoke.

Following these Miss Mary Spencc spoke on behalf of FisK University, while Mrs. Martha Wells Brown represented the State Normal and Dr. A. M. Townsend responded for Roger Williams University.

Mr. A. N. Johnson responded on behalf ot the- eit'zens of Nashville. At the close of these addresses, lean Hubbard, who assumed the duties of ma-trr of ceremonies In addi tion to his being host ot the occasion, pointed out some beautiful facts.

He referred to this being the thlrty-sev-entti anniversary of Meharry Medical College and that more than twenty-five hundred students had gone out from the university, and that since the opening of the hospital it had cared for three hundred fifty patients with a remarkable record of only nine deaths. During the speech-making a toothsome two-course menu was served. If Orchestra. 03.