The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-10-22
NAMES COMMITTEE
FOR GOOD ROADS
SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CON
GRESS HAS MANY
ANGLES.
Meets in CharlestOn-Chairm of
Important Department Tells of
Various Features of Coming
Convention.

A. &. Kaufman, who has been
chosen chairman of the good roads
committee of the Southern CONNER
cial congress, sends the following:
GAS everybody in South Carolina
knows or should know, the Southern
Commercial congress, the most poten-
tial organization in the South, with
headquarters in Washington, will hold
its annual conference in the city of
Charleston, December 1917.
Senator Duncan U. Fletcher 0,
Florida is chairman and Clarence J.
Owens is managing director. On the
board of directors are two represen-
tatives from each Southern State,
those from South Carolina being f. J.
Watson and A. V. Smell
various measures of practical
nature will be discussed, and active
subcommittee of prominent men
have been appointed from the general
committee, of which Mayor John P.
Grace is chairman, the most signiti-
cant of which is committee on
peace, this being the Semi-centennia.
of the termination of the struggle be-
tween the Northern and the Southern
sections of our county. It's signifi-
cance lies in the fact that this peace
demonstration will be celebrated on
the spot where the first gun against
the Federal army was fired. Happy,
indeed, will be the event, which in
Charleston, "the hot bed of secession"
so years after the termination of this
fratricidal war, finds this divided and
distracted people again united, pros
porous and dwelling together as
brethren. Leading men of the United
States are expected to make addresses
on the occasion.
"Some of the other subjects to be
given place will be cotton, drainage,
foreign trade, rural credits, rivers and
harborS, education, etc.
at was found in giving place to
other subjects that the subject of
good roads, in which every citizen of
the entire country, farmer, mechanic,
business man, the man of pleasure and
persons of every walk in life, is in
terested, had been omitted. This be-
ing brought to the attention of Man
aging Director Owens and of Chair
man Grace good roads committee
was at once ordered and an active
canvass will be made for it. Dis
tinguished men thoroughly familiar
with the good roads question will be
invited to attend the conference and
speak on its necessity and value. We
can not afford to let this congress ad-
journ, without securing its approval
on this widely agitated subject. ELI
son A.. Williams is secretary of the
good roads committee.
Besides the business matters be-
fore the conference there will be much
to attract and divert during this con-
spicuous week. Secretary Daniels on
the navy has promised to send as
many vessels of the United States
navy as he can possibly spare at the
time to be present in Charleston har-
Dor during this great week.
"Adjt. Gen. w. w. Moore of South
Carolina promises to have the Ma
tional Guard of the State under arms
in Charleston for the gala week. The
parade of our State troops will make
an inspiring show.
"We want every one in the State
who can possibly leave home to visit
Charleston December 1917. The peo~
pie here want their relatives and
friends from the country to see old
Charleston. A warm welcome awaits
those who come.
"The railroads will help in every
way they can to bring crowds. The
rates will be so low as to make a cit
izen stand and consider. Those who
lose this peculiar chance for study
and nninNment will have no one to