The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-21

~ peFInOSL IN the minus OF the pSO-
pies of the world today. In
Europe where the war beast is
ravishing and destroying the institu-
lions created by mankind during the
centuries OF social and economic evo-
tuition. the minds of men are reverting
70 tho desire for the blessings of peace.
A year of "A world at war" has chal-
1cnged the progress Of civilization, and
wiped out the noblest of human
achievements.
Go and look out over the once fair
nelds of Europe now all trampled and
-furrowed, and upon the black
ened ruins Of its magnificent cities;
then contrast the conditions which
fifty years of internal peace have pro-
duced in the United States.-years
that have raised our country to TIE
premiership among the nations of the
world-and the tragic futility Of war
Is forcefully apparent.
When we stop and mentally con-
,rast the torn, bleeding, devastated
Europe OF today continent drunk
with the destructive madness of war
and the condition of the America of
today, there comcs the positive con-
viction 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 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
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action and plunge the nation into the
red frenzy OF the world-war.
Victories or Peace.
What has gone on in Belgium,
, France and Poland during the past
year went on in the South fifty years
ago. In 1853 South Carolina suffered
Belgium's fate, and 1t is thus to cele-
brate 1.-THE 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-
Tina, December 1911, 1915, will center
around the general theme Of peace /"
Some OF the most notable men of
the nation have already signified their
intention OF taking part in the Charles
ton program. which will be devoted TO
fifteen specific subjects. each embrac-
ing vital problems which must be met
and worked out as the South and the
Nation move on to our predestined
economic and social eminence. 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
Re years 1s11-1915. to portray the
Aouth's recovery during the past nifty
years.
The meeting in 1911 at Atlanta,
Georgia, was devoted to a review OF
The South's Physical Recovery" in
1919 the convention assembled at
Nashville Tennessee, was planned to
exhibit The 6outh's Agricultural and
educational Recovery''-this meeting
launched the national movement for
the establishment Of a rural credit
system; at Mobile, Alabama, in 1913.
The South's Commercial Recovery .
was the central theme around which
the relation OF the Panama Canal to