The Washington herald., 1912-02-18
Reserve April s, 9. and 10, I9I2-NASHHILLE, TEN
Progress of the Nashpille Programme.
General summary.

NbHcAuCLdlOn VI lue IOilONlnK COff-
nents upon the Nashville programme
will show these important points:
First-The programme as a whole is
intended to defiRe the South's Educa-
tional and Agricultural Recovery, thus
using the year 1872 as one of the five
meetings from 1911 to 1915 that will em-
phasize in the national mind the marvel
GUS transition that has gone forward
since the days of desperate struggle.
: Second-The series of conferences ar
ranged are intended 10 touch all basal
considerations upon which a greater ag-
Ticultural and educational development
OF the South may be safely placed. |
These conferences, running through the
afternoon of April and the morning |
of April 9, are intended to reach out and |
interest every man Of broad vision and
purpose in the entire South.
Third-The great Knapp Memorial Ex- |
ercises are intended TO impress upon the |
nation the grateful thanks Of the South |
TO every man of good intent who comes |
TO her and throws in his heart and soul |
with her problems.
Fourth-The section meetings on the
morning of April 10 are intended TO pro- |
vide all interested in rural development |
with one or more practical ideas that
can be carried home and applied to the |
personal problems of the listener.
Senator Bailey Coming.
Senator Joseph W. Bailey will speak
on the morning of April s. His subject |
will be THE Mississippi Valley" This |
Grafton is expected to set forth, in |
clearer terms than ever before. the i'm
portant part the Mississippi Valley has
played in American history and the i'm
pOrtant part that il is destined to play
in the future. Senator Bailey, born in
Mississippi and achieving national repu-
TatiOn from Texas, was a student in |
Nandarbf1f University His
in Nashville will enable thousands to |
hear this famous orator.
DIR. CraIEhead Coming.
Dr. E. B Craighead. President of Tu-
lane University, New Orleans. Louisiana, |
will address the opening session of the |
Congress on THE South's Educational |
BenefaCtors." He is an educator and |
orator Of national note. His subject was |
selected because, while the Congress is |
proving by the meeting in Nashville |
The SOuth's Educational Recovery" IL |
is realized that there should be placed |
on record the names and labors of the |
leading men and women, both North and |
South, who have assisted in bringing to |
pass the rapid educational transitions Of |
the past forty years.
Minister EEan Coming.
Hon. Maurice F. Egan. Minister OF the
United States at the Court of Denmark |
will, by special permission of Secretary
of State Knox, absent himself from his /
post for several weeks in order to ad-
dress the Southern Commercial Congress |
on The Cooperative Dairying System |
of the Danish Farmers and render |
other great services. The Danish system /
has in a few years made the rural por- /
tions of Denmark wonderfully prosper
GUS Minister Egan will address the first |
session OF the Congress on the morning |
Of April s. Immediately after the con-
vention ends. on April 10, he will start /
a thirty-day tour of the South, covering |
the following States and dates:
KentuCky-ApriI II. Il, Il
Missourf-Aprll Is l6.
Arkansas-April II, IS
TeXas-APril 70. 20, n %, %
LOUlsiana-April -, p
Mississippi-ApriI g q.
AIabama-April %, 80
GeoTGia-May l, >
South Carolina-May 3 l.
North Carolina-May s, :.
Nirginia-May s, @
David Lubin Coming.
BY special permission of the Depart
ment of State David Lubin will absent |
himself from his post in Rome. Italy.
as delegate from the United States to
the International Institute of Agricul-
tUre. in order that, by conferences and |
hy speeches, he may familiarize TO the /
United States the cooperative credit !
systems worked out satisfactorily under
European conditions. From April l to
April he will meet a select committee
Of two or more men from each State of
the Union gathered in Nashville to de-
liberate carefully over the features of
these cooperative credit systems, in or
der that, by careful judgment, men most
deeply interested in the rural develop
ment of America may decide whether
the Raiffeisen system or any variant of
it could with advantage be adapted to
the problems Of rural marketing and
general rural stimulus. Mr.. Lubin is a |
Californian, and to his remarkable genius
Is to be credited much Of the organized