Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-10-10
BOOSTING OF SOUTH
URGED At MEETING
OF TRADE LEADERS,
Representatives From Many
Commercial Organizations
Gather in Memphis for AIT
South Conference
rnr As.ociated Press.l

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. $40 the ma
ton. through a telegram sent Presidsn.
Taft, the all-south conference. following
organization here today, extending inva-
tation to the citizenship of the United
States to travel through the south and
the southwes in going the two Panaln
exposiions, be held in California In
1915. Z Leland Hume OF Nashville wis
selected chairman and A. w. McKeaHiI.
of Charleston. S. c., secretary. Joseph
B. Babb. of the Birmingham Chamber 81
Commerce. was appointed chairman or
the committee on plan of action. c.
Grover Dave. managing director of the
Southern Commercial congress. WASH
ington, was named chairman of the COM
mtitee on national statement, and this
committee sent the following telegram
to the president:
sN INVITATION TO TAFT.
Recognizing your interest in the south
as an important factor in~national de-
yelopment and strength. and your ufs-s
varyig friendship shown by your public
acts, the aIl-south conference, in session
at Memphis. sends greetings to the MAJ
ton through you as president of q unlt-
ed people. The south as a whole Is DDS
sirous that it and its prospects should
be more fully understood by the natl ~.
at large. f
"The an-south conference. therefore,.
invites the nation to visit the souin
during the semi-centennial reunion Dc
1913 to 1918 in order not only that tt .
natio may read the history of the part
amog the fields of strife. but also fhiFt
the nation may come TO realize hrFw
marked and nationally important q rls-
covery the south has made. shown IN
municipal advancement unusally heaIfEt-
L. cond tions. commercial enterprise
and agriculture leadership.
The heart of the south is warm with
national impulses and it's own progress
along the lines of constructive endeas y
or are perhaps preparing to give aid in
all national problems along these san
lies. To see the south is to ,blieye In
it. and we ask to have our progress
masured by actual sight, rather than DIV
the reading of cold statistics"
GOVERNORS INVITED.
kilograms are to be sent to the gov
ernors of all the states.
Representatives from many COM
mercial ordinations of the vari-
Gus cities of the south and others
interested in the commercial and indusi-
trial uplift of the south gathered h ne
tociay in what is known as the All South.
conference. F-s 81 ff
Commencing Tuesday and lasting two
days, there viii be a convention Of 1he
secretaries Of the southern commercial
organizations. Many Of. the visiting sesi-
retartes are also delegates to the ALI
South conference. e
PLANS FOR BOOSTING. &
Tie general topic of discussion at the.
conference will be the promotion III
tourist travel in the SOUTH. thus bring
ing before the visitors the development
of this section of the country; 20 increase
the knowledge of the municipal activities
of tire southland and to explain the adj
vantages, of traversing this portion ~
the United States on the way II the
Panama canal exposition
Addresses will be delivered by local end.
visiting delegates prominent in the q
ganizations they represent.