The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-10
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And South's Relations Will
Be Shown at Conven-
ton at. Mobile.

| WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 3
/ The Southern Commercial Congress
took an important part in the sew
enth annual convention of the Amerl-
can Association of Commercial Ex-
ecutives, held in Washington, D. c..
September 1926. Managing Direc-
Itor DR.. C. j. ownes delivered an adj
dress to the delegates on Rural
Credits. Vocational Education, the
Fifth Annual Convention of the Con-
gress. which is to be held in Mo-
bile, Ala, in 1913, and the Panama
Canal, showing the relation of the
South to the canal.
Resolutions were unanimously
passed by the convention endorsing
the foreign commission Of the
: Southern Commercial. Congress which
viii go abroad next May to study
agricultural finance in Europe I'M
/ der the direction of David Lubln.
American delegate to the Interna-
tional Institute of Agriculture,
Rome. Italy. Another resolution
j thanked the congress for courtesies
extended the delegates. On the clos
ing day of the convention the dele
i gates from the South in body Wis
tied the permanent Southern exhibit
F; of the congress.
Two southern men were elected
/; president and secretary-treasurer
respectively. NJ. B. Trezeyant, Sec
retary-manager of the New Orleans
Progressive Union. was elected pres
ident, and Edwin L. Quarels, of
| Baltimore, Nd, was elected secre-
tary-treasurer. At one time Mr..
Quarels was secretary of the South
ern Commercial Congress and is now
director of the Greater Baltimore
committee. Mr.. Trezevant has been
secretary manager of the New Or
leans Progressive Union for six
years.
DR.. Oscar Bowling, of Shreveport,
La, president of the Louisiana
State Board OF Health and chairman
of the Vital Statistics committee OF
the Southern Commercial Congress,
was in Washington with his famous
Louisiana health train during. the
week of September 21-2S. DR.. Dow
ling was a delegate to the fifteenth
annual Congress on Hygiene and
Demography held during that week,
which was attended by 5000 cele-
brated physicians and scientists
from fifty-five nations of the world.
! Dr. Bowling has announced the
members of the Vital Statistics COM
mittee of the Southern Commercial
Congress. This committee includes
the presidents of the boards OF
health from each of the sixteen
southern states, as follows:
DR.. Bowling, chairman, president
of the Louisiana State Board OF
Health, New Orleans, La; DR.. S. C.
Perry, state register OF vital sta
tistics. Montgomery. Ala; DIR. Nor
gan Smith. secretary of state board
of health, Little Rock, Ark; DR..
Joseph Y. Porter, state health off,
Ger, Jacksonville, Fla; DR.. H. r.
Harris. secretary of state board of
health, Atlanta, Ca; DR.. w. L. Hell
ger, state register of vital statistics,
Bowling Green, KY; DR.. w. s..
feathers, director OF public health
and hygiene, University. Miss: Dr..
/ Frederick ". Better, CHIEF of the
bureau of vital statistics, Baltimore,
Nd: DR.. Watson S. Rankin, secre-
tary of state board of health. Raj
eigh, N. c.: DR.. j. C. Hahn, superin-
tendent OF health, Oklahoma City.
Okla; DR.. James A. Hayne. state
health officer. Columbia. s. c.; Dr..
R. Q. Lillard. secretary state board
of health, Nashville. Tenn; DR..
Ralph Steiner. state health officer,
Austin, Tex; DR.. E. G. willias.a.ss,
state commissioner OF health. Rich.
mond, Va; Dr.. H. A. Barbee. secre-
tary and state registrar, Point pleas.
ant, w. Va; Or. W. c. Woodward,
commissioner of health and regis
trar of vital statistics. District OF