The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-13
Seventh Convention of Or. ganizatiOn and Auxiliary
 Bodies to Convene
PEACE SERVICES
 HELD YESTERDAY
Fifty Years of Peace Between the States Will Be Celebrated and Em- phasis Laid on Contrast Between
 Europe and America Today

Charleston, S. C., December 12-First | exercises incident to the opening here to-
 morrow of the seventh annual convention
 of the Southern Commercial congress be- gan today with special services in many Charleston churches. The congress itself VIII take up tomorrow a five-day pro- gramme in which methods will be outlined by number of prominent men for up- building the agricultural, commercial and other resources of the south, and also will devote part of Tuesday to commemorating | the 50 years of peace between the states of the union and to the contrast of today
 between peaceful America and warning Europe.
 Many delegates as well as a number of officers and men of the six warships of the Atlantic fleet in port for the con- gress, attended today's peace services NOTABLE SPEAKERS
 1 While list of all the addresses to be
 delivered before the congress has not yet
 been made public. the general discussion will be along lines devoted to four sub | jects with special features under each. Agriculture. municipal efficiency, coloni- zation and foreign trade will be the main topics with 0 number of cabinet officers as speakers, including Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, Secretary of the Navy Daniels. Secretary of Labor Wilson and Assistant Secretary of War Breckenridge representing Secretary Garrison, who is unable to attend.
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 president of the congress, and pr. Clar- ence J. Owens, managing director will de- | liver addresses. Other speakers on the
 programme are Senator Hoke Smith of | Georgia, w. P. G. Harding of the federal reserve board; Dr. F. F. Claxton. federal commissioner of education; E. E. Pratt ! chief of the federal bureau of foreign and l domestic commerce; Surgeon General Wil-
 liam c. Gorgas, U. S. A.; John Barrett. director general of the Pan-American
 union; Dr. Abbott, Lawrence Lowell
 president of Harvard; pr. Nicholas Mur-
 ray Butler, president of Columbia uni- versity; Former Secretary of State Bryan; John Temple Graves of New York: David Lubn, United States delegate to the h.
 ternational Institute of Agriculture. Rome Italy, and a number of others in Ameri-
 can public life, as well as foreign repre- sentatives. Among the latter are Kai Flu Shah, Chinese minister to the United States; s. Perez Triana. representing the l United States of Colombia; Carrasco Ba-
 sounan. special commercial delegate from | Chile.
 PLANS FOR ALIENS
 Agriculture will be discussed under the subdivisions of finance. production, dis tribution anu organization. Urban prob lems, including civic and municipal will | be taken up by various speakers under the head of municipal efficiency. Plans for dealing with the aliens already admitted | to the United States and methods by which to draw into the south the best class of immigrants will be outlined by speakers on the subject of co,onization while foreign trade willy be taken up under subdivisions of foreign and domes- tic commerce. shipping facilities and
 methods of financing overseas ventures for business men and commercial houses Tomorrow opening session. after the welcoming exercises, will be devoted to the annual address of the president. q discussion by Managing Director Owens on ''The Southern Commercial Congress: A Militant Force" and to an address on "Victories of Peace by MT Graves Mir. Barrett also will speak.
 In the afternoon the womans auxil- inry to the congress. presided over by Miss Louise C.. Lindsley Of Nashville, WllA Hoid itS iiTSl ScSSlcu. fauttrSStS VIII be made by number of prominent wom- en, including Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Mrs. Julia Heath of New York. president of the National Housewives league; Miss Kate Gordon of New Orleans, president of tho Southern States Woman Suffrage con ference. and others.
 GOVERNORS TO MEET The House cs Southern Governors. to which Governor Richard Manning of South Carolina will be especially the host. will convene Monday night. A number Of other meetings will be held during the week. Among them will be a conference of the Southern Cotton congress. Conference of the National Drainage congress. Conference of the Southern Commercial Secretaries, Rural Credits conference, Conference of the League to Enforce Peace. Conference on e nimercial Education in Relation to For eign and Domestic Commerce, Conference on Immigration and Labor. Conference of Southern Wholesale Groeers' associa- tirn. Conference of Southern Section of Advertising Clubs. Conference of Com mssioners of Agriculture of the South ern States. and meetings of the American commission on agricultural organization. I United States commission on rural cred 1 It's. and the national marketing commit tee Secretary McAdoo. Senator Fletcher, MT. Barrett and other speakers at .he opening session. are to arrive early to- morrow. Secretary Daniels Is to arriva
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