The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-10-15
soUTH'S GREAT FUTURE
THE AMAZING GROWTH TOLD nv
COMMERCIAL CONGRESS-
CREATE ENDOWMENT FUND
Company to Be incorporated in Dis.
triet of columbia-system of
Membership Fees.

Atlanta, Cain sober business
phrases nearly four score delegates
sppointed by sixteen Southern COVER
prs Friday foretold an amazine
foWth in wealth and population fol
the South within the next ten years
e Representing the agriculture and bust.
ness OF every section of Dixie, the del.
egates are to assist the executive com.
mittee OF the Southern Commercial
Congress in working out nonpolitical
and disinterested plan for promoting
Development of the South's millions
of unoccupied acres and it's vast un.
used water powers, the enlargement of
its business and industry both by it's
own inhabitants and through judi.
cious advertising of it's resources all
throughout America and Europe. AS
an aid TO those objects the delegates
drew up new constitution for the
new national congress, which was
adopted by the executive committee.
Its salient features follow:
To promote and develop the inter-
ests of the following sixteen states:
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missis-
sppi, Missouri, North Carolina, Okla
homa, South Carolina, Tennessee. Tex
as, Virginia, West Virginia.
To collect and disseminate infor-
nation regarding the resources and
advantages offered in those states for
the safe and profitable investment of
capital; the South's attraction for the
homeseekers, artisans and laborers,
and to urge on the national govern
ment proper legislation for conserva-
ton, river and harbor Improvement
and transportation facilities; to pro-
mote the development of the South's
resources with its own capital; to OBJ
tain establishment of commercial,
manufacturing and other enterprises
and foster those already existing; to
encourage patriotic and national senti-
ments throughout the South and else
where in the nation, and particularly
to promote the desire for greater ma
mote the crearIon of institutions of
material resources; to promote and
develop proper immigration and fos-
ter the establishment of such organi-
cations as may develop desirable i'm
migration into the South; to encourage
good roads and the extension of rail-
road and trolley transportation; to pro-
mote the improvement of educational
and other conditions which tend to de-
velop the natural resources; to provide
for q permanent establishment of the
Conservation Congress, enlargement
Of its activity through a permanent
endowment fund and through enlisting
active interest of individuals, corpo- |
rations, municipalities, townships,
counties, states, commercial and other
organizations of the national govern
ment, and by securing from time to
time their financial support.
For handling the endowment fund
the Southern Commercial Congress
Company is to be created, incorporat-
ed under the laws of the District OF
Columbia. A system of membership
fees is provided for, ranging from
life membership for 81, 900 contributed
to the endowment fund and various
cooperation memberships, to member
ships within the reach of individuals
able to contribute only small amounts.
board of thirty-two governors is
created, consisting of the president,
first and second vice presidents and
twenty-nine others elected at annual
meetings.