Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-10-16


AcE permost in the minds Of the peo-
pies of tho world today. In
q Europe where the war beast Is
raWshing and destroying the institu-
uons created by mankind during the
centuries of social and economic evo-
luton, the minds Of men are reverting
to the desire for the blessings of peace.
A year Of "A world at war" has chal-
lenged the progress Of civilization, and
wiped out the noblest Of human
achievements.
Go and look out over the once fair
fields Of Europe now all trampled and
graVe-furrowod, and upon tho black
ened ruins Of It's magnificent cities;
then contrast the conditions which
fifty years of internal peace have pro-
duced in the United Statcs,--years
that have raised our country to the
premiership among the nationa OF tho
world-and the tragic futility Of war
is forcefully apparent
When we stop and mentally con-
trast the torn, bleeding, devastated
Europe Of today--a continent drunk
with the destructive madness Of war
and tho condition of tho America of
today, there Comcs the positive. con-
Wction that we must avoid Europe's
calamity. This Is possible only through
the study and cultivation Of those
things which make for peace. The
United States is still q partisan Of war
like principles, and while we as yet are
at peace, the danger Of war hovers
over us even as we turn to celebrate
the victories of half century Of peace
among the States of our Union.
The rabid venom Of war turks yet
in our veins, waiting possibly only for
the exhibition Of blood to call It into
action and plunge the nation into the
red frenzy of the worldwar
Victories OF Peace.
What has gone on in Belgium,
France and Poland during the past
year went on in the South fifty years
ago. In 1866 South Carolina suffered
Belgium's fate, and It is thus to cele-
brate Tho Victories Of Peace" and
to advance those interests that con-
stitute Americas greatest preparded-
ness against war; that the deliberations
of the Seventh Annual Convention Of
The Southern Commercial Congress-
to be held AT Charleston, South Caro-
lima, December 1917, 1915, will center
around the general theme Of Peace"
Some of the most notable men Of
the nation have already signifed their
intention of taking part in the Charles
ton program, which will be devoted to
fifteen specific subjects each embrace
3 Ing vital problems which must be met
and worked out as the South and the
Nation move on to our predestined
economic and social emlnence. These
subjects include Peace, Education, Ma
tional Defense, Public Health. Public
Efficiency, Social Conditions, Drainage,
Rivers and Harbors, Foreign Trade,
Merchant Marine, Cotton, Rural
Credit, Marketing Good Roads and
Agricultural Colonization.
South's Recovery.
This meeting being the last, prom
ises TO be the largest and most i'm
portant of the series OF five great con-
ventions that has been carried out by
The Southern Commercial Congress In
the years 1911-1916, to portray the
south's recovery during the past fifty
years.
The meeting in 1911 at Atlanta,
Georgia, was devoted to review OF
THE South Physical Recovery" in
1912 the convention assembled at
Nashville, Tenne ssee, was planned to
exhibit THE South's Agricultural and
Educational Recovery"-thls meeting
launched tho national movement for
the establishment Of rural credit
system; at Mobile, Alabama, In 1913,
The souths Commercial Recovery"
was the central theme around whicn
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