Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-10-29


 dent of the Southern Railway Com pany; John NJ. Parker of New Orleans, | honorary president of the Southern Commercial Congress; Representative Richmond Pearson Hobson of Ala bama; Representative Henry D. Clay ton of Alabama; Richard l.. Metcalf, governor of the Panama Canal Zone, and Edmund T. Perkins, president of the National Drainage Congress.
 It was regarded as especially fit ting that this convention of the con gress, celebrating the practical com. pletion of the Panama canal, should be held at Mobile, the seaport of the state which produced the late Senator John Tyler Morgan, who is called the Father of the Canal Idea Fitting tribute was paid during the meeting to the memory of the man who worked tirelessly for years to bring about the undertaking of the great project, the completion of which is now being cele- brated. One of the features of the program was an address by Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama on The Life and Achievements of Sena- tor John T. Morgan" It was proposed to pay further tribute to the late sena- tor by erecting tablet to his memory at the Panama canal. This was to be done, it was planned, when the dele, gates to the congress visited the canal following the close of the meeting ill l this city.
 It was expected that several hum dred of the delegates who attended the Mobile meeting would take part in the cruise which had been arranged to enable them to inspect the canal.
 An interesting feature of the pro gram was the evening which was de voted to a conference of commercial executives, presided over by M. B. 1 Trezevant, manager of the New Or leans Association of Commerce and 1 president of the American Associa- 1 tion of Commercial Executives
 Among those on the program for this conference were Mayor Martin Behrman of New Orleans whose sub ject was "The Relation of New Or leans to Pan-American Trade;" Bruce Kennedy president of the Southern Commercial Secretaries Association. whose subject was Extension of the Souths Trade Relations. Lucius E. Wilson, eX-president of the American Association of Commercial Executives: Leland J. Henderson, president of the Mississippi-Atlantic Inland Waterways Association; and A. S. Caldwell, presi- dent Of the Mississippi River Levee Association, whose subject was The Relation of the Mississippi River As sociation to the Panama Canal"
 The participation in the Southern Commercial Congress of representa- | tives of Central and South American countries, was assured by the acton of the Pan-American Union, in post 1 poning the Pan-American Commercial Conference which it had been propos- ed to hold this fall and extending an | invitation through Secretary of State 1 Bryan to ali Pan-American countries 1 to participate in the Southern Commer- f cial Congress. This official invita- tion from the United States govern ment resulted in practically all of the countries of South and Central Ameri. ca sending representatives to this con- gress.
 | In connection with the meeting Of l the congress, the first annual conven- tion of the Woman's Auxiliary of the l Congress was held Many of the lead. 1 ing women of the country were on the program at this meeting. Among them were Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher, rresi- dent of the Congressional Club; Miss Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago: Miss Julia Lathrop, superintendent of the United States Children's Bureau. Washington, and the Countess of Aberdeen