Evening star., 1915-12-13
Secretary McAdoo to Speak.

4 OdayS National Affairs was the
subject chosen by Secretary McAdoo,
while John Barrett, director general of
the Pan-American Union, was to de-
liver speech on the pan-American
situation. Both Mr.. McAdoo and Mr..
Barrett arrived early today.
Later in the day there will be lunch
cons for officers of the fleet. an excur-
sion to the navy yard for delegates to
the congress and in the afternoon the
opening session of the Women's Aux
iliary to the congress. Tonight the
house of southern governors will con-
vene to discuss cotton, commerce and
rural credits and other subjects of in
terest. THE Changed Outlook" will
be the subject of an address before
the governors by DR.. Nicholas MurraE
Butler, president of Columbia Uni
versity.
A suggestion made by DR.. Charles w.
Eliot that the Southern Commercial
Congress drop the word southern"
from it's title to broaden it's scope was
presented in the annual address of
its president. Senator Fletcher of
Florida.
Our name southern has not limited
US in any manner to narrow our field
of work." said Senator Fletcher "As
our slogan reads so has our effort been
to help create "A Greater Nation
Through Greater South"
Greatest Work for Farmers.
deeds OF the congress, declared that its
greatest work, perhaps. had been for
agriculture. At TIE same time def
mite service had been rendered for edu
cation, for public health, for improve
ment of rivers and harbors, for de-
yelopment of water power. establish
ment of new industries and directing
settlement in rural districts.
I'VE have stood for the fullest de-
velopment of all the various resources
Of the SOUTH" said the president I'VE
have not merely talked. written and
published articles about them-Ave have
done things that count nightly in a
practical, definite way"
Some of the things the congress has
done were outlined by Senator Fletcher
as follows:
1t sent to Europe commission of
sixty-five members to study the sys-
TENS of rural credits in successful oper-
alton there.
1t sent commission to Central Amer
lea in the interest of trade, and at it's
meeting in Mobile it laid the founda- :
tion for better understanding and
closer commercial relation with all
Latin America.
Study of Municipal Problems.
ecutives abroad to study municipal
problems.
1t has undertaken to solve the prob
lem of distribution of farm products SO
that the producer might get better
prices for what he grows and that the
consumer might have to pay less for
what he consumes.
1t has supported the cause of increas-
ing transportation facilities as an i'm
portant factor in economic distribution.
1t has stood for the upbuilding of the
American merchant marine, insisting
that this country, with surplus prod
ucts seeking markets abroad. could not
afford to be abjectly dependent on. the
ships of foreign countries, our com
petitors in those markets.
The Southern Commercial Congress
has nothing to sell or trade" explained
the speaker. 1T makes no profit, it
has no earnings, no income. The i'm
portance of its work increases as it
proceeds with doing the things in a
broad way which build and promote
real growth; catches vision of what
lies ahead. realizing that failure in life
comes not SO much from undertaking
too much as from being satisfied with
too little; interpreting as it sees them
the ideals of the south and the hopes of
the nation"