Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
IS GROWING
IN VOLUME EVERY DAY
Secretary McAdoo Says Confldence.Is
Restored, Despite Disturbances
Caused by War.
CROP DIvERsIFICATToN URGED
Watson Tells Southern Commercial
Congress That It's Advantages Arc
just Being Realized-System of
Credits Advocated by Daughtridge.

| MCSKoGEE. OKLA, April u.s.
lSioSer relations between the employer
and employee, crop diversification md
more liberal treatment for the small
| farmers were urged by speakers at
| to-niEhts session OF the Southern Com
| mercial Congress MS essential to tho
commercial development OF the South
10th the waGe-earner and tho en-
ployer must accept tho other as part
nerS In production" declared Louis F.
Fost. Assistant Secretary Of the United
States Department of Labor wage
earning interests cannot he promoted
| by obstructlng legitimate commercial
enterprise any moro than legitimate
commercial enterprise can be promoted
by stranEling wage-earning interests
The wagc-earncrs' interests Is ms truly
commercial as that OF his employer,
and II you eliminate that interest div
idends disappear. and the commercial
system crumblcs."
Mr.. Post asserted that moro than
half the population of the United
States is directly dependent upon
waEe-earnerS.
by ,E. n Watson. Commissioner of
Agriculture of South Carolina.
SOUTH WAKES TO ADVANTAGES
OF CROP DIyERSIFICATION
TT took such crisis ms the Euro
rean war to make the people of tho
South wake up to the advantages of
crop divershcation." he said. For
years we have been mining the soil
and not subduinE 1t and replenlshinE
1t as we are told to do by the Bible"
Mr.. Watson declared that the soil
OF tho South had been doctored with
| commercial fertilizer. "a patent medi-
cine that gives no permanent relief"
until IL would no longer respond to
that treatment. and declared that nj
trogenous plants that will at once
build up the soil and provide an ex-
cellent forage crop" was what was
| needed.
telegram from William G.. McAdoo
Secretary Of the Treasury, expressing
| a growing confidence in business con-
ditions despite the European war, and
Announcing that he would be able to
planned. was read to the convention
to-day by Senator Fletcher, president
of the congress.
The telegram said in part:
The Southern Commercial Congress
has done fine service for the country
! 1t Is militant and effective orGani-
cation and is certain to play an In
fuential part In the future delibera-
lions OF our country.
| You meet under suspicious condi-
tons Confidence has been re-estab-
! iiSneu IN spite or the grave disturb
ances caused by the gigantic Euro
pean war. Prosperity already has been
/ restored and is growing in volume
every day; business with honor has
been preserved in the face OF grave
international difficulties.
| I'VE can regard the present with
| thankfulness to God for the blessing
of peace. and look forward to the flu
ture with supreme confidence"
FARMERS ON SAME FOOTING
AS OTHER BUSINESS MEN
Congressional Legislation that will
make elastic the agricultural resources
! OF the South and under which n fnan-
clal system may be organized that will
enable the farmers TO obtain such
credit as they need and will place
them on the same footing ms other
business men was urged by e l..
| Daughtridgo. Lieutenant Governor Of
North Carolina at to-day's session.
! In the past. our government has
| fostered and encouraged Industrial and
commercial interests" he said, while
| European nations have given their first
consideration TO agriculture. The nee
tcssity OF feeding and clothing our rap
idly growing nonproducing popula ton
shortly Will force our government 10
follow their lead"
| The speaker pleaded that n system Of
credits be established that will enable
the men of small means to buy n farm
iventing the young men from drifting