The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-12-30
mankind.

mankind.
Nowadays an international convention
is an event of note. A socialist gather
ing in Switzerland, monetary confer
ence at Brussels, a trades congress at
Liverpool, a Federation of Labor at Phil
adelphia, all attract attention ON both
sides of the ocean, and their proceedings
are reported with more or less Of detail by
the press of all languages. What. then,
shall be said or what cah be thought Of
twenty-ons worlds congresses-for that
Is the number whose organization has
been effected to this writing-twenty-
one international assemblies, and some
of them called upon TO consider
so many themes that il will be
necessary for them to reassemble into
twenty-one divisions. Two hundred
and fifty, possibly 800. congresses in
ALI The idea - IN these days when.
as was SAID just now, even a single
congress is an event of worldwide
importance and interest--seeins to 10
chimerical, to be beyond belief OF NO
eomplishment. And yet each and every
congress will be held just as surely ns
ON the 1st day of May the touch OF an
electric button will start the machinery
the world that the Columbian exposition
is an actual, living fact.
Itwould require columns, if not pages.
to tell of what has been done and what
remains to be done by the congress aux
iliary. Soon after the old year has given
place to the new, and before we have
done with speeding the parting and
welcoming the coming guest" half
million of envelopes will go out from
the Chicago postoffice. They will be di-
rected to as many people Of eminence ia
their respective fields at home and
abroad, and the contents will ask their
personal participation in the particular
congress with which their interests are
identified.
The first month of the fair will Wit
ness the Inauguration Of the opening
congress-that relating TO women'a prog
ress. This will be on May 16. On the
22d the representatives OF the public
press will come together, and 10000 ed
itors Of as many publications are u 10
included in the list OF Invitations One
week later the departments cA4nedienip,
corr Frising four divisions, wilibe Ia ses-
sion. June will witness the rallying Of
the friends of temperance, OF moral and
social reform and the representatives, Of
commerce. and finance. In July men
and women identified with music In all
its branches, with literature as authors.
Librarians, philologists and advocates OF
equitable copyright, and with education
in all its various phases, will gather to-
gether.
August will be q busy month, with It's
q -
lists and architects, of men who have
made jurisprudence and law reform, po-
litical and economic reform, social SCI
ence, international arbitration and city
government a life study. The conven-
tions of dentists, pharmacists and those
interested in medical jurisprudence will
be held during the second week Of the
month and so will the asseinblage Of
those identified with science and philns-
ophy September will open with tho
great labor convention, 10 be followed
by the worlds parliament Of religion. IN
which every sect, denomination and
faith from Baptist 10 Buddhist viii
have its representatives, while ia Octp-
Der the friends of Sunday rest, Of pub
lie health and the agriculturists nf
the country will be afforded an oppor-
tunity of taking council together.
The permanent Memorial Art palace.
in-7vhicf all OF the congresses Will ba~
held, is rapidly arising on tho lAke
front, whore formerly the state expose
tion building held undisputed sway IL
will have two audience rooms, each 10
seat between ), 600 and 4 900 peopls, while
twenty smaller rooms will afford acconl-
mediation for from 300 to 700 partici-
pants each. HENRY NJ. HUNT.