DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - NEWSPAPERS - Washington Post, April 4, 1912 ----¤¤¤¤---- This file is part of the DCGenWeb Archives Project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm ********************************************* http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************* Contributed to The USGenWeb Archives Project by: Barbara & Dave (barbara-dave@adelphia.net) ------------------------------------------------- Washington Post, April 4, 1912, News Page 6 HOSPITALS UNDER THE KNIFE. The report of the Sternberg committee in defense of the management of the Tuberculosis Hospital fares badly at the hands of Representative Foster, who made an independent investigation of the institution. The Board of Charities has much to answer for, in view of this fresh arraignment of its policy. The ladies of the civic betterment organization who testified at the House committee hearing are fully corroborated in their revelations, be­sides which Mr. Foster has familiarized himself with existing conditions at other hospitals in receipt of government support. While he characterizes the Tuberculosis Hospital as the worst of all, the others are better only in degree. This low estimation of the work of the Board of Charities, coming from a congressman professionally qualified to pass judgment, more than ever bespeaks a general in­vestigation of the hospital service. Accepting the Sternberg report and Secretary George Wilson's defense of the charities board as having been made in good faith and to the best of their knowledge and belief, it seems probable that the controversy will turn on what constitutes the proper method of carrying on institutions of the kind in question. In particular, the Sternberg report, which is signed by persons closely associated with the crusade against the white plague in the District, sustains the general policy of the authorities as giving assurance of efficient and humane management, as against the high testimony to the contrary. Minor faults are admitted, but on the whole the charities board is given a clean bill of health. It remains for the House committee to probe the matter along this line and determine once for all whether the white plague shall be fought on the ideals as practiced by the board or on the ideals advocated by those who gravely ques­tion the wisdom of further tolerance of what is going on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Y. M. C. A. ELECTION RESULTS. George Otis Smith Is Chosen President for Another Year. The annual election of officers for the Washington Young Men's Christian Association was held last night. The following were chosen as directors to serve until May 1, 1915: Dr. W. K. Butler, H. Bradley Davidson, C. B. Hardlng, John B. Larner, Dr. Maurice E. Miller, Miles M. Shand, and S. W. Woodward. There are fourteen other members of the board, whose terms will not expire until 1913. The following are the officers chosen for the year: George Otis Smith, president; Henry B. F. Macfarland, vice president; Wilbur P. Thirkield, second vice president; H. A. Thrift, recording secretary, and John Poole, treasurer. For trustee, to fill the place made vacant by the death of John B. Sleman, jr., A. B. Brown was elected. A. M. Lothrop was elected to the advisory board. Short addresses were made by Percy S. Foster, George Otis Smith, and W. K. Cooper, superintendent of the local Young Men's Christian Association. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Growth of the Southeast. John E. Etchison, jr., a former Virginian, now a resident of Baltimore, is at the Raleigh. Mr. Etchison looks after the interests of a large Milwaukee manufacturing concern in the southeast Atlantic State. "That section of the country is just beginning to come into its own," said Mr. Etchison. "The commercial and industrial awakening and consequent development, is wonderful. Both the country districts and villages and towns are improving at a rate to cause any one, after a few weeks observation to acknowledge that within the next fifteen or twenty years the garden spot of this entire country will be right within the confines of the southeast Atlantic States. There is no limit to the possibilities of this section, and the particular beauty about the developments that are taking place is that they are promoted and even financed in large part by local people. "Politics in that section is beginning to warm up. I found much sentiment in all the States for Underwood, Clark, Wilson, and Harmon."