The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-03-22
THE COMMERCIAL
CONGRESS WHICH
MEETS IN APRIL
A LIST OF VITAL SUBJECTS TO
BE DISCUSSED BY ABLE
MEN.
Quotations IN The SOUTH
Men Of National Standing on the
Program and Joe w. Bailey VIII
Speak on the mississippi Valley
Rural Banking Considered.


! WASHINGTON, d. c., March 20
The details of the Fourth Annua
Convention of the Southern Com
mercial Congress which will be hell
in Nashville, April 8 to 10, are nov
nearly complete. More than a hun
bred and fifty speakers of nationa
and international reputation vii
take part in the meetings. The ide;
running through the program is tt
demonstrate THE South's Agricul
tural and Educational Recovery.
This is the second in the series o.
five annual meetings paralleling the
years of the war and intended tt
show the contrast of conditions
The following conferences are an
ncunced:
Better Baling of Cotton; Chair
man, Harvie Jordan, of Atlanta.
Drainage Laws; Chairman, A. w
McKeand, Charleston, 8. G.
Forestry; Chairman, Chief For
ester Graves, Of the U. S. Forest
Service.
Health; Chairman, DR.. Oscar Dow
ling, of Louisiana.
Roads and Bond Issues; Chairman
P. D Sargent, Asst. Dir. U. S. Office
Of Public Roads.
Waterways Development; Chair.
man, L. J. Henderson, of Pensacola.
Fla.
Extension Teaching in Agricul.
ture: Chairman, A. M. Soule, Athens,
Ga.
Cooperative Marketing; Chair.
man, J. L. Coulter, of the Census
Bureau
Page Bill; (Senate 81 Chairman, c.
w. Burkett, Editor American Agri-
Gulturist."
The following section meeting
will be held:
Pine Beetle; Chairman, DR.. A. D.
Hopkins, of the Bureau of Entomo-
logy, U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture.
Small Grains; Chairman, H. B.
Derr, Bureau of Plant Industry.
Apple and Pear Culture; Chairman
DR.. w. Fletcher, of Blackburg,
Va.
Beef and Dairy Cattle; Chairman,
DR.. TAFT Butler, Editor Of the PRO
gressive Farmer Memphis, Tenn.
Hog Raising; Chairman, DR.. Dan
T. Gray, Auburn, Ala.
Horse and Mule Breeding; Chair
man, Geo M. Rommel, Bureau of
Animal Industry.
Nut Growing; Chairman, DR.. ]. F..
Wilson. Editor, "Nut Grower Way
cross Ga.
Poultry; Chairman, J.. w. Morgan,
Riverton, Va.
Sheep and Goats; Chairman, ]. E.
Hite, Gallatin, Tennessee.
The work of DR.. Seaman A. Knapp
will be set forth in session devot-
cd to Knapp Memorial exercises.
Walter H. Page, Editor, Worlds
Work." will preside and be followed
by DR.. Wallace Buttrick, speaking
Tor the nation, and Clarence Poe,
speaking for the South. These will
be followed by brief testimonies of
affection from each state chiefly
benefited by DR.. Knapps work
through demonstration farms and
boys corn clubs.
One entire session will be devoted
to demonstrating 1.-THE South's Edu-
cational Recovery" the speakers be-
ing the Commissioner of Education
OF other official of the sixteen states
covered by the work Of the Southern
Commercial Congress.
One entire session will be devoted
to demonstrating "The South's Agri-
cultural Recovery" the speakers be-
ing the Commissioner of Agriculture
of the sixteen states.
The main meetings will be ad.
dressed by men of national standing.
Milton Whitney, Chief of the Bureau
of Soils, will speak on The Soil Re-
sources Of the South" Senator New.
lands. Of Nevada, on 1.-THE Business
Si6e Of Waterway Development"
Louis w. Hill, President of the Great
Northern Railway, on The Relation
of the Railroads to the Development
of Gulf Ports through Trans-NIissis-
sippi Railroads. Senator Jos. W.
Bailey, on 1.-THE Mississippi Valley"
President E. B. Craighead, of Tulane
University, on THE Educational
Benefactors of the South; Minister
Egan, Of Denmark, on The Co-opera-