The Washington herald., 1912-02-18

Conference, called by Senator Fletcher,
to discuss the national business aspects
Of waterway development -Four nation
ally known men will be heard IN this
conference. defining the questions in
volved, among them Hon. Herbert Knox
Smith. Commissioner OF the Bureau Of
Corporations in the Department OF Com
merce and Labor. whose remarkable in
yestigatlons OF waterways and water
POWERS are now nationally known He
will speak to the subject, How the
Government Ownership of Waterways
Can Be Made to Lead TO Their Proper
Use"
Conference on Extension Teaching.
I'm Agriculture.
Hon. Andrew NJ. Soule, President OF
the Georgia State College Of Agriculture,
at Athens. will hold a conference on the
afternoon OF April and the morning OF
April dealing with the general subject
OF Extension Teaching in Agriculture" T"
The purpose Of this conference is to
show how the agricultural colleges Of
the South can carry on still wider ex-
tension work and thus bring a college
and its influences to the people. instead
OF waiting for the people TO come TO the
college. The conference will make clear
the great advances made in Wisconsin
and also in Georgia. An interesting fea-
ture OF the conference will be a full eX-
PLANTATION OF the system Of Agricultural
drummers" used throughout Georgia to
stimulate local interest in all phases Of
agricultural advancement and better
ment
Negro Education Conference.
". d. weatherford. Of Nashville. whose
investigations regarding the education OF
fksav haW~ haaW klNN ufFN has Ha0r
invited TO PRESIDE over a conference on
Negro Education" This conference
will deal with the problems peculiar to
this important phase Of the educational
progress and development OF the South.
Real Estate Conference.
4 conference Of delegates from real
estate exchanges in the South has been
provided for. in order that the real
estate men OF the South may understand
the important relation that real estate
exchanges will occupy in reassuring the
public relative to purchases OF real es-
tate in the South. AS the South has still
an unused farming area of more than
300, OOO, 900 acres. and as the interest OF
buyers throughout the nation is being
aroused in farm property in the South,
very practical and helpful results are ex-
pected to arise from this conference.
Conference on Cooperative Selling.
One OF the most eminent railroad men
in the United States, whose thought has
been much directed toward cooperative
selling Of products by farmers. has been
invited to preside over a Cooperative
Selling Conference, in order that at this
conference cooperative methods of buy
ing and selling that have been tested and
proved in the South and elsewhere
throughout the nation may thus become
familiar to all rural regions, and thus
greatly stimulate agricultural activity
throughout the South, whose possessions
OF rainfall. soil varieties, and growing
hours justify the expectation of immense
coming agricultural development in the
South.
Page Bill Conference.
A conference on the Page Bill Senate,
No. 81, the present form Of the earlier
known Dolliver-Davis Bill. will be held
IN order that representatives from nor
NAL schools, A. and N. colleges, and
other educators. both city and country,
may understand the important relation
that this bill will have toward stimulat-
ing In each State of the South agricul-
tural instruction for the country and vo-
cational instruction and guidance for the
city. This bill has been indorsed by The
Farmers Union, The Federation Of La