The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-25
SOUTHERN
COMMERCIAL
CONGRESS
A CONFEDERATION OF SIXTEEN
SOUTHERN STATES IN INDUS
TRY, AGRICULTURE, EOUCA-
TIoN COMMERCE, ETC.


Muskogee April $3.50, is confed-
GRAFTON of sixteen southern states in
industry, agriculture, education, fin
ance, commerce and all activities, To-
cal, state and south-wide that stand
for the development and power of
the greatest third of the United
States. The resources of the south
are related to every national obliga-
ton and opportunity and even be-
you'd the national life to her inter-
national relations as vitally associ-
ated with the great movements of the
century that have to do with the eX-
tension OF. the influence and power
of the nation, in fraternity as well
as commerce and finance, with other
lands OF the western world and the
continents of the eastern hemisphere.
The five great meetings of the con-
gress since the year 1911 have repre-
Sented five great scenes in the south
recovery from the blasting period OF
the war The scene in Atlanta, in
March 1911, carried out the idea OF
''the SOuth's Physical Recovery In
1912 the scene and idea carried out
were the SOuths Agricultural and
Educational Recovery" In 1913 at
Mobile was carried out the idea OF
, the South's Compercial recovery"
using the Panama canal as means
of defining the increasing Importance
OF the southern states as related to
the commerce of the world. The
scene at Muskogee next week will
portray the whole question, the pro-
gram embracing four distinct divis
ions, "Agricuture immigration, Mu
nicipal Efficiency and Foreign Trade
The sixth annual convention to be
held in Muskogee will be presided
over by Senator Duncan L. Fletcher
of Florida, president of the organi
zation. Four international organiza-
tions will be represented, the inter-
national institute of agriculture, a
federation of ffty-four nations with
headquarters in Rome, Italy. The re-
port from this organization has been
prepared by Hon. David Lubn, the
American delegate.
Hon. John Barrett, director gen
eral OF the Pan American Union, will
deliver an address on foreign trade
day interpreting the activities of the
Pan-American Union, federation OF
American republics.
]. B. Case, president of the Inter
national Irrigation Congress, will
speak on The Colonization of Irri-
gated Lands"
Hon. Harvie Jordan, of Atlanta
president of the Southern Cotton
Growers association, will represent
the American Commission on Agri
cultural Organization.
Among the national organizations
to be represented at the congress
next week are, The U1ited States
Commission on Rura, Credits, the
National Marketing COMMITTEES, the
Committee on Immigration, the AM
erican Commission of Municipal Exec
utives, the report for which will be
made by Leroy Hodges, of Virginia,
who was one of the delegates to the
International Municipal Congress in
tn- I'll, hA I lin, d rinaV,
Trade Committee; the National For
eign Trade Council the National AS
sociation of Commercial Organization
Secretaries: the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress: the Inland Navi-
cation Bureau: the Southern Com
mercial Secretaries Association; the
Southern Medical Association the
Texas Farm Life Commission; the
treasury department, the department
OF commerce, the department of ag-
riculture and the department of labor
OF the federal government will be
represented by the men in President
Wilson's cabinet who are at the heads
of those departments. Special Du-
reaus to be represented are the bu-
reau of foreign and domestic COM
merce, the bureau of farm demon
stration. office of markets and rural
organization foreign trade advisors,
public health and the weather bu-
reau. Addresses will also be deliy-
cred by representatives of the fed
eral reserve board and the federal
trade commission.
This is by far the biggest program
bv the biggest men ever given at any
convention in the southwest Okla
homa has never entertained at one
time so large a body of distinguished
guests and the opportunity to hear
these men talk on the subjects in
which the south is vitally interested