Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-17
SOUTHERN COMMERC-
IAL CONGRESS WILL
MEET IN OKLAHOMA

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hcma City has been selected by the
Board of Directors of The Southern
Commercial Congress, in its annual
meeting, as the place of the Sixth An
nual Convention of the Congress, to
be held in the fall of 1914
A final report of the relation of The
Southern Commercial Congress to the
American Commission on Agricultural
Cooperation was made and loans were
approved for the American Commits
sion of Municipal Executives now be
ing assembled by The Southern Com
mercial Congress, to make an investi-
cation in European countries and par
ticipate in the Anglo-American CeIe-
bration of peace between the United
States and the United Kingdom in
of London, next July. All the stand
ing committees o fthe Congress were
reelected. These committees are:
Agricultural Finance; Vocational Ed
ucation; Southern Exhibits; Drain
age; Uniform Tax Laws; Breaking Up
Large Plantations; Finance; Public
I+lv Wataruoyc. E1Oroc+r,y. Vi+aI c+o
tistics. Two new committees, one on
Foreign Relations and one on Civic
Problems, were created.
The following states were represent
ed at the meeting: Florida, Maryland,
IOklahoma, Missouri, West Virginia,
Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi,
Virginia South Carolina, Tennessee,
alabama, Texas, and the District of
Columbia.
And this Congress will be submit
ted the report of the American Com
mission that this year will study civic
problems in Europe The 1914 meet
ing will be held in Oklahoma, because
by that year, State, that has made
great strides in population, develop
ment and viciv orderliness, will be
just twenty-five years old. Such a
Transition and rapid development as
has taken place in Oklahoma, will be
common during the future development
of the entire South, and Oklahoma
will be used as a type for impressing
upon the mind of the nation the viril-
+ ity, the energy, the possibilities Of
the South in all its parts.
The five great meetings in the years
1911 to 1915 represent five scenes in
the gerat drama of The South's Re-
covery."
The scene in Atlanta, in March.
1911, carried out the idea of THE
South's Physical Recovery" the scene
in Nashville, in April, 1912, carried
out the idea of THE Souths Agricul-
tural and Educationa Recovery" the
scene in Mobile in 1918, carried out
the idea of "The South's Commercial
Recovery" using the Panama Canal as
a means Of defining the increasing i'm
portance of the Southern States as
related to the commerce OH the nation
and of the world. The scene in 1914
will portray the whole question Of
trade expansion throughout the world,
and in setting forth the raw material
and manufactured products of this
country available for export, together
with the needs of other lands for the
output of the South, and also the prac-
teal utilization of the praducts of
other lands in this country, thereby
defining the South's trade relation in
1ports and imports to the commerce OF
the world The scene in 1915 will
be set in Washington or in Richmond
and will express all that is invilved in
the words, The Victories of Fifty
Years of Peace" he scene will also
be a centennial, as 1915 marks one
hundred ears of peace with the moth
or country.