The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-11-22
MRS. WILSON A MEMBER
0F WOMak'S AUXILIARY OF
COMMERCIAL CUNGRESS

crrss
Mrs. Wilson accepted the position
-, October IL, in Philadelphia when
she and Miss Jessie Wilson held a
conference with DR.. Clarence }.
owens, Managing Director OF the
southern Commercial Congress, rela-
tive TO the purposes OF the Congress
and The plans for the WOmans Aux
i!iary.
Mrs. Wilson is a naive OF Georgia
and is intensely interested not only
in the development of the South but
also of the nation along lines OF
general education, vocational edu-
cation, and in the solution OF all
economic problems, both urban ana
rural, as they relate to the home as
, well as TO the business world.
The first congress OF the women
tf the South will be held in Mobile,
| iiahama, at the time of the fifth an
Eual convention Of the Southern
{ commercial Congress and both will
H. concdcnt with the opening of
the Panama Canal
The full cabinet OF national OIL
GERS will be announced in a foW
! days. |, will include the following,
NJ: Active President; Vice Presi-
dents; Treasurer; General Sccre-
tary and an Executive Committee.
President duncan L. Fletcher will
appoint State Presidents for the SIX
teen States included in he territory
o. the Congress. These will in turn
appoint their cabinets and county
! presidents Tn" county president
viii or.anizc clubs of fifty, one clLb
for a county.
l)r Owens made The announce
IL III Of the selection. Of Mrs. Wade
II I'tNl'l
Il, rotary. Mrs. hampton is the
d;Hsh,or- in-laW Of G,.ner2l Wad"
Champion, Of South Carolina. Sh"
viii he located in The Southern
IHaiIding and viii work in co-opcra
ton With Mana@in& Director Owens
al Tho 'pDnrD.t
The aims OF tie N'omar's AuNi!
larry Mill hn the same as for ia
.rlt horn Commercial Congress. tn.
pCwcr Ct ORGANIZED effort Of the wO.
men Of tn" country Will be brought
10 bear ON The questions The con
gross is now cndeaNoring to solN e
: \ f,w of these problems are nationa
as Vocational Education in tn,
United States, the investigation o
l the European system of co-Operativ,
agricultural credits and the rclatio'
Of the United States to the Panam.
Canal and the Latin American colln
tries This last subject has becOn,
: international in its scope With re-
: spect to the foregoing. he Southern
commercial Congress is recognizes
hy departments of the Federal GOV
eminent and by many national or
Q ganizations. as holding a position o
{ rational leadership.
Other activities of tho Congress
: are with respect to the following
Morgan Memorial at Panama; Sou
thcrn Exhibit; Drainage; Uniform
Tax Laws; breaking up Large Plan
tations; Publicity; Waterways: For
cstry; and Vital Statistics.
The southern Commercial Cor
"rcss called the conference on voca
ticnal education. held in the Scna
Office Building last December tina
federated the national fcdcration
Oh this subject and>has actively con
Quoted the campaign since.
The Southern Commercial con
:ress called the conference on Rur,
Credits held in Nashville. Tom
last April, presided over by Hon
, David l.uhin. OF Rome, Italy. whic,
- h2e resulted in the plan new fun,
worked out to send a commission Il
, Europe next May to make a study o
D The systems in operation with m,
I view OF solving this question for tn,
American farmer. Many national or
2 SahizaIi"nS have given endorsement
; To The plan. the comm;a ion will .,
, from New York, April 80
= The Southern Commercial con
= sf2Ss will hold its fifth Coprress n
a time 10 enable the thousands n
III lcSates to 20 10 the Canal for III,
z Icl mai opening ceremonies. In 1hcs
Plans the Congress has tn, rndorca
! ment of the Department o. State y
the United States and of the Pa,
American Cnicn Secretary Kpo
I and Director General Barrett ar
z giving active cooperation.