The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-13
FOR
 GREAT CONGRESS Meeting at Atlanta Will Draw Big Attendance PROGRESS OF SOUTH Growth of Past Fifty Years Will Be Reviewed By Prominent Men
 From Each of Sixteen
 Southern States

Washington, February 1o.-Typifying which just 50 years ago were uniting for a struggle of arms, the third annual meeting of the Southern Commercial con gress in Atlanta, Ga, March 8, and 10. arrangements for which have almost been completed by the executive committee at it's headquarters here, will stand forth prominently in pointing out the south's physical recovery and demonstrating It's importance to the nation. While indus trial, commercial and agricultural prog ress and possibilities of the south will stand pre-eminently throughout the ses- sions, solidification of the north and the south in the development of the nation will be set forth as never before.
 The programme will bring together men from all walks of life, many of them with national and international reputa- tion, in order that every phase of the south and it's resources may get full treatment. Such national political figures as President Taft, Colonel Roosevelt, Gov erner Woodrow Wilson, Secretary Dicl1in- son and Secretary Wilson will speak Among the national business figures who
 
 Pittsburg, George w. Perkins of New York; Edward Hines of Chicago and Will liam G. McAdoo of New York Speakers from the educational world will be Com missioner Elmer E. Brown of Washing ton and Chancellor Houston of Wash ington university St. Louis.
 Unique Part of Programme
 A unique division of the programme will be that entitled 'The Solid South of Bus mess" Tn this division one man will speak for each of the 16 states covered by the work of the Southern Commercial con- gress, thus bringing to light the latest business status of each state.
 On the third day there will be IA sec tion meetings, held simultaneously. The chairmen of these section meetings are themselves distinguished along various lines The section meetings and their chairmen will be-
 Agriculture, Victor P. Olmsted, chief of the bureau of statistics, department of agriculture.
 Commerce, Bernard N Baker. Balti- more, president Shipping league of Balti- more.
 Commercial organizations. Aloph Boldt, secretary chamber of commerce.. Hous- ton.
 Education, Commissioner E. E. Brown, < nited States bureau of education.
 
 Louisiana conservation commission, Jena Louisiana.
 Good roads, Director Logans Walter Page, office of public roads, Washing ton.
 Health surgeon, Gen. Walter Wy man, bureau of public health and ma rine hospital service.
 Immigration T. " Powderly, bureau of immigration and naturalization, Washington, D. c. H
 Insurance Maj. A. c. Sexton, Bir- mingham, Ala
 Land reclamation. Edward Wisner, New Orleans.
 Mines and mining, Director J. A. Holmes, bureau of mines.
 Real Estate advertising, Robert Jem- ison. Jr.. Birmingham. Ala
 Water resources. John H. Finney Washington, D. c.
 Speeches By Prominent Men
 In each sect.Sn there will be three or four speeches by men equally distin- guished. Tn the section devoted to ed ucaton President Carleton B. Gibson of the Mechanics institute of Rochester N. Y, will speak on "Technical and In- dustrial Education for. the South" President s. C. Mitchell of the Uniyer- sity of South Carolina on "Education for Constructive Leadership State and National" and T. H. Harris, state su- perntendent of public instruction in Louisiana. on Taxation as Related to Education"
 in the section devoted to agricul- ture Commissioner F. J.. Watson of South Carolina will speak on "The Ce- reals of the South;" Professor Bennett of Paris, Tex, nationally known for his command on the subject, '"The Ma tional Importance of Cotton Fiber" Dr. W. A. Withers of West Raleigh, N. C.. on "The Rainfall and Growing Pow CTS of the South as Explaining Its Az ricultural Monopolies,' and J. A. Ev- ans of Shreveport, La. on ''Diversifca- ton in Southern Agriculture."
 These discussions will lead to a number of resolutions or affirmations regarding the south as an integral part of the nation and as closely related to the later growth and development of the nation. se sl0, ya.f.4s.s ,s
 As the, climax of the meeting will come the speech of President Taft on "A Greater Nation Through Greater South"