The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-18
Nationwide Advertising Campaign Planned for
 Southern Resources
TO PRESENT PEACE
 BELL TO THE PEOPLE
Much Business Disposed of on Closing Day of Southern Commercial Con- gress-Will Petition Congress to
 Guarantee Shipment of Tobacco

Charleston. S. C., December 17.-In- 6orsement of all the policies and prin- ciples of national and international character announced by President Will sons plans for nationwide advertis- ing campaign in the interest of the preliminary steps toward organizing a committee to present to the American
 people peace bell'' as token of the love and affection of the south to all the people of the land,'' occupied the atten- tion of delegates to the Southern Com mercial congress at it's session here late today. The convention was prepared to adjourn late tonight.
 Other sections of lengthy resolutions passed by the congress outlined work for the coming year.
 Endorsement of President Wilson's poli-
 cies came in the course of that section of the resolutions approving the administra- tion plans for rural credits legislation and a great merchant marine" After men, toning these. the resolutions pledged sup port to "an President Wilson's policies I of a national and international char acter.'
 The congress also requested the Presi- l cent and Congress to take steps to guarantee the shipment of tobacco to neutral countries without restrictions. Plans approved for campaign by the congress in the interests of the south l call upon Congress to seek cooperation of various southern trade bodies. PEACE BELL SUGGESTED The suggestion for a peace bell' was made by Ben Altheimer of St. Louis. Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, president of I the congress, was empowered to appoint l a committee to promote the project It l was planned to pay for the bell by get ting each schoolboy and girl to give one cent each.
 l Resolutions calling for federal appro- priation and legislation to enable federal, state and city officials to establish joint offices for aiding the unemployed were adopted at a conference of the southern state and municipal officers. after dis l cussion of the question with Secretary of Labor Wilson The Southern Com mercial congress indorsed the plan. | Among other subjects indorsed by the congress were:
 | Inland waterways, national and state aid for better highways, efforts of the American Bar association to ''modernize
 procedure and practice of courts, organ
 i ization of ''semi-official national cham
 1 Der of agriculture" as proposed by dele
 gates to the Association of the Southern Agricultural Commerce, which met here
 ! with the congress-; efforts being made by
 vs rious organizations to pass laws foi establishment of cooperative marketing
 purchasing and credits societies for the
 1 benefit of American farmers | The womans auxiliary to the Southern lCcmmercial congress adopted resolutions iwkich placed that organization on record
 1 as favorng, among other things. the fol l lowing;
 l "Legislation to abolish child labor: en.
 l force compulsory education; factory in.
 l spection; minimum wages: maximum
 work hours in mines. factories and mer.
 cantile establishments employing womer
 and children
 1 Cooperation by the auxiliary in the
 | work of organizing state and count,
 branches of the league to enforce peace
 The auxiliary's resolutions were formally
 Ia6opted by the congress.
 The six warships of the Atlantic flee
 sent here for the congress. under com
 mand of Rear Admiral Coffman. saile(
 late today for North Atlantic ports.