The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12

H permost in the minds of the peo
 pies of the world today. In
 Europe where the war beast is
 wishing and destroying the institu-
 ons created by mankind during the snturies of social and economic evo- ltion, the minds of men are reverting '> the desire for the blessings of peace. year of "A world at war;" has chal- senged the progress of civilization, and iped out the noblest of human Z ,hievements.
 Go and look out over the once fair elds of Europe now all trampled and rave-furrowed, and upon the black bed ruins of it's magnificent cities; Blen contrast the conditions which sty years of internal peace have pro- 8uced in the United States,-years Mtat have raised our country to the # #'emiership among the nations of the |4 |4orld-and the tragic futility of war forcefully apparent.
 M When we stop and mentally con- Hast the torn, bleeding, devastated Europe of today-a continent drunk H.ith the destructive madness of war the condition of the America of day, there comes the positive con Fiction that we must avoid Europe's lamity This is possible only through Ehe study and cultivation of those E ings which make for peace. The z nited States is still partisan of war Exc principles, and while we as yet are # peace, the danger of war hovers Fer us even as we turn to celebrate S victories of half century of peace
 thong the States of our Union.
 &s The rabid venom of war turks yet 5 our veins, waiting possibly only for s8 6 exhibition of blood to call it into E ton and plunge the nation into the
 d frenzy of the world-war.
 # Victories Of Peace.
 What has gone on in Belgium,
 ance and Poland during the past N ar went on in the South fifty years fso. In 1865 South Carolina suffered splgium's fate, and it is thus to cele-
 late "The Victories of Peace," and sI advance those interests that con-
 itute Americas greatest preparded-
 iss against war, that the deliberations |1 the Seventh Annual Convention of @te Southern Commercial Congress, E be held at Charleston, South Caro-
 a, December 13-17, 1915, will center k ound the general theme of Peace" Some x-f the most notable men of ie nation have already signified their .ention of taking part in the Charles program, which will be devoted to teen specific subjects, each embrac vital problems which must be met worked out as the South and the Ltion move on to our predestined onomic and social eminence. These IA b1ects include Peace, Education, Na- nal Defense, Public Health, Public hciency, Social Conditions, Drainage, vers and Harbors, Foreign Trade. erchant Marine, Cotton, Rural edit, Marketing, Good Roads and Iricultural Colonization.
 South's Recovery.
 This meeting, being the last, prom E s to be the largest and most im- rtant of the series of five great con ltions that has been carried out by H e Southern Commercial Congress in } years 1911-1915. to portray the lth's recovery during the past fifty ITS.
 The meeting in 1911 at Atlanta, orgia, was devoted to review of he South's Physical Recovery" in l2 the convention assembled at shville, Tennessee, was planned to libit "The South's Agricultural and Educational Recovery"-this meeting nched the national movement for N, establishment of rural credit tenn; at Mobile, Alabama, in 1913. ae South's Commercial Recovery" Ms the central theme around which & relation of the Panama Canal to xM foreign commerce of the Southern
 tes was emphasized; the fourth
 eting of the series planned for 1914
 l held at Muskogee, Oklahoma, was oted to review of the problems of
 -iculture, Immigration, Public Ef1-
 hey. and Foreign Trade as they
 .te to the future economic develop
 nt of the South.
 The fifth and last of this series of
 stings will be assembled in Charles l
 South Carolina, to celebrate "The
 tories of Fifty Years of Peace" in
 South. and to plan schedule of
 structive activities for the future.
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