Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-11-18
lHpsss is 10 nake k0cWa Qppor
Iunitits Of South.
flaElGn REPRESENTATIVES |AVI|EO
In Addition to tho Speeches, There
Will be Complete Survey Of
Southern Possessions and Possibili-
ties by Means Of Charts. Etc.

MONTGOMERY. Ala. Nov. 17.-The
committess of arrangements CT tn"
Southern Commercial Congress today
nailed to the ambassadors, ministers
: and consuls accredited to the United
1 States from all foreign countries, an
Z Invitation 10 attend the Congress III
Washington. The letter TO the amhas-
I, saaiors tsuccinctly sums up III bricl
the whole scope and purpo'c OF the
7 Southern commercial Congress. 1t
says.
.srhe purpose of this Congress is to
make kr0wn TO the world the many
atipreme features Of Opportunity-in'
lnstrial. commercial and Agricultural
that exist In SCuthern States.
"ln addition to The speeches which
will be important in themselves, aud
which will be authoritative along
each line. there viii be Raihert to.
sether for the first time, Il ccmp!"t>
etiryey of Southern possessi"ns and
Possibilities. by means of charts dia
grams, etc.
The program first takes NJ. as You
will see. the important s'rj'ct 81
health conditions as the though ~
Z the foreign world needs parti'u!ra'
: eniightenme III IN this direction. oar
program ends WITH a caretut s:a'"
ment Of educational conditions In III"
sonth; for We are convinced that
when the south Is more justly under
stood along the two lines III ntioned.
there viii come to 1t an accelerated
sdevelopm ant in keeping with the extra
ordinary gifts OF Nature along the
Important lines of minerals, water
ways, water powers forests and eli
mates"
Surgeon General Walter Wyman.
OF the Public Health and Marine
Hospital Service who will definitely
tell the ira about health conditions
In the south, has held the following
important positions: President OF the
First and Second International SAM
tary Conventions Of American Re
public: Chairman Of the Information
al Sanitary Bureau or American Re
pnblics: Chairman OF the Section on
Public Health of the international
Congress on Arts and Sciences at the
st. Louis. Universal Exposition: Preai-
dent OF the Section on State and NUM-
einal Control at the recent Interna-
tionnl Congress on tuberculosis OF
the American Public Health Associa-
ton, 1929: President Of the Associa-
ton of Military Surgeons. l9"4-5.
Vice President and Acting President
of the American National Red Cross.
1894, and member Of the Board OF
Consultation of the American Nation
al Red Cross rs recognized.
The Program follows:
/. Southern Health Conditions. Gil
mats and Temperature. Surgeon Gen.
Walter W. Wyman.
:. The Influence OF the Panama
Canal on the Industrial Development
Of the Nation. Gen. Luke Wright.
Secretary of War.
SPORTS OF the South and Foreign
Trade, VI. ]. Sanders, New Orl ans.
4. Water Courses Of the South.
John A. Fox. Arkansas.
6. Southern Railroads aud Their
Needs, John F. Wallace. New York.
6 Water Powers. Frank S. Wash
burn, Nashville. Tenn.
Z. Coal Resources. Prof. l. c. Glenn,
Nashville. Tenn.
2. Iron Resources. f. c. Eckei.
Washington, n. c.
3. General Mineral Wealth. G. W.
Hayes. Chief Geologist. Washington.
y. c.
10. Cotton Monopoly and Cotton