The Washington herald., 1914-10-11
TO GIVE SESSION
over TO COTTON
Southern Society Of Washing
ton viii Devote Two Meet
ings to South's Product.
BALL FOR NEXT MONTH
Gathering Thursday Night Will Hear
Talks. See Movies" and Listen
to Poem on Subject.
BALL FOR NEXT MONTH

At a recent meeting of the officials and
other leading spirits of the Southern So
ciety of Washington, 1t was decided to
devote the October and November meet
lngs of the society to the futherance OF
the great Southern and national move
ment in the interest of the South's lead
ing product-cotton. The October meet
ing. which will be held in the ballroom
of the Raleigh Hotel Thursday evening,
will have as its theme: King cotton.
slightly disfigured but still in the ring.
The November meeting, which will be in
the same hall, will resolve itself into a
grand cotton ball, which is expected to
set the pace for similar balls all over the
United States.
The officers Of the society, who are en-
tering into hearty cooperation toward
the perfection of the plans proposed, in
clude Claude N. Bennett, president:
Josephus Daniels, Secretary Of the Navy.
general vice president; State vice presi-
dents as follows: Speaker Clark, Mis-
souri,; Senator Hoke Smith, Georgia
Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, Florida;
Senator Robert L. Owen, Oklahoma: SEN
ator Morris Sheppard, Texas: Senator
Joseph E. Ransdell, louisiana; Maj.
Holmes Conrad, Virginia; Col. Robert
Lee Montague, Maryland; r. D. Shep-
herd, West Virginia: Charles NJ. Gallo
way SCUM SdTOllndg RGpTtSGnAdllNc
John H. Small, North Carolina; Repre-
sentative Benjamin G. Humphreys, Mis-
sissippi; Representative John L. Burnett
Alabama; Representative H. NJ. Jaco-
way. Arkansas; Henry S. Breckenridge.
Assistant Secretary of War. Kentucky,
and James c. McReynolds, Justice Of the
Supreme Court, Tennessee. Also, Dr.
Clarence ]. Owens, secretary; Col. Rob-
ert Newton Harper, financial secretary
Charles L Bowman, treasurer, and Capt
c. c. Calhoun, chairman of the executive
committee.
Women at Head of Affair.
Aiding them and really directing the
affair and co-ordinating the many details
necessary to success are committees oi
women, including the wives of the Off
GERS who have wives and such other
social leaders as Mrs. William L. Mar.
shall, Mrs. William Bailey Lamar. Mrs
Maude Howell Smith. Mrs. John Frank
lin Little, Mrs. Robert L. Taylor, Mrs
wickliffe Rose, Mrs. Philander P. Clax'
ton, Mrs. William H. Saunders, Mrs. Ed
gar B. Merritt, and others.
The program of the meeting for next
Thursday night has been practically
completed. 1t will include.
eulogy on king Cotton" Senator
Morris Sheppard, Texas.
The cotton industry in lantern slides
Daniel c. Ropes, First Assistant Post
master General
THE Cotton Industry in Lantern
Slides" Daniel c. Rope. First Assistant
Postmaster General
The Cotton Industry in Moving Pic
tures,'' Dudley N. Hughes, cotton farmer
and member of Congress from Georgia
THE Absent-minded Southron," an
original poem appropriate to the buy-a
bale movement. Mrs. Harriet T. Graves
The National Significance Of the Buy
a-bale Movebent," DR.. Clarence ]. Owens
managing director Of the Southern Com
mercial Congress.
Cotton plantation Stories" BENJAMIN
G. Humphreys, of Mississippi.
Southern songs, the Confederate Choir