The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-29
HARDING PROPOSAL FOR RURAL CREDITS
 WILL BE DISCUSSED
Southern Conference for Education and Indus try Will Consider
 Campaign

Chattanooga. April 2s-An important symposium on rural credits which will lead to the inauguration of cam paign by the Southern Conference for Education and Industry to put It's forces behind the campaign for this legislation. will be held tomorrow as feature of the third days session of the conference
 The proposal of w P. c. Harding member of the federal reserve board for rural credits by state action will be submitted and discussed by John Lee Coulter of Nashville, who was . member of the American commission which went to Europe to study agii. cultural systems of finance T. j. Brooks of Mississippi. another member of the commission, will present hs views.
 Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia. a member of the congressional commit- tee named to frame bill for sub mission at the next session of Con- gross, has been detained in Washing ton by illness In his family. and his speech will be read.
 Adamson Speaks Representative William c. Adamson of Georgia. chairman of the House committee on interstate and forefsn commerce, spoke today on the import ance of water power development in promoting southern prosperity. ard urged the conference to press active ly for more liberal Legislation having this purpose. He called attention to the wonderful water power develop ment around Chattanooga, promota ed by the late Anthony N. Brady of New York, and said the south had two- thirds of the undeveloped water power in the United States outside of the rublic domain.
 Suffrage was injected into the con- ference of southern women today de- spite the efforts of tho leaders to keop out this and other controversial Is- sues. If won sweeping victory A resolution offered by Mrs. Desha Breck- enrioge of Lexington, Ky, was adopt ed. It reads;
 Resolved. That a large educational V orlS can only be accomplished in the shortest time by the enthusiasm and help of whole people, that the mother sex should take In this generation, as it has in the past, necessary and ir- portant part In the education of the oung; that the south needs today in her educational problem the help of every woman in the south rendered
 
 conference feels that southern women, therefore. should have the right to make their educational interest ef- fective by the use of the ballot in vot- Ing taxes, selecting school officers and obtaining school legislation" Spirited Discussion The adoption of the resolution causei much spirited discussion afterward. Many members thought 1t a mistake. Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern Railway company, predicted an early revival of business and sub- stantial prosperity, in an address pre- rared for delivery before the confer ence and read in his absence by J. c. Williams, assistant to the president.
 Looking beyond the immediate present" said MT. Harrison, q believe that the outlook for the south aas never been more promising. Wonder ful as has been the progress of the last S5 years, the Industrial develop ment of the south has only begun and conferences such as these, bringing to- gether leaders of southern thought and action may be made important factors , in. bringing about the more rapid de- Nelopment of the future to which we may look forward with confidenee.'