Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-04-09
PLAN FOR SOUTH TO HOLD WEALTH
 CREATED HERE
Southern Wide Movement for Use of Southern Made
 Goods Proposed.

Every year Fhe South creates wealth in stagger ng millions, but
 somehow in he past these millions have persisently and rapidly vanished so that tle average weaith of oul
 whilt rural population does not reach four hundred dcllars. in the more
 prosperous states in the northwest
 rCZen up six months in the year. this
 average wealth goes beyond thou i sand dollars. We have been buying food, food-stuffs and feed stuffs from them which we could nave grown at home. but the amounts we have sent 1 for these are paltry in comparison 1 gh the amounts we send abroal evsry year 10 buy things that could be made a home.
 It is clear thai the short cut to prosperity is t. hold our wealth. i The: efore, the Southern Industrial council which will meet in New Orleans April r is going to organize a Southern-wide movement for th9 use of Sou. hernmade goods. Sup rose every woman in the entire South should have a complete outfit made from our own weaves--suppose evarv school ch Id should have q homespun suit. not from the old fashioned loom hut rom the looms in cur mills, it s easy to imagine that within a few years our accumulations would place US among the mosS prosperous people Of the earth.
 AS this can be done only through the cooperation of all citizens. rep resentatives of different call'ngs leai in the program: H. l.. Whitfield president Industrial institute and col lege, Columbus, Mississippi; Mrs. G. H. Maihis, Gadsden, Alabama; H. E. Rlakc slee. state commissioner of assi- culture, Jackson, VI ss.; Harry Hodg- son, secretary-treasurer Empire State Chemical company, Athens, Ga.; Ber- naro Suttler. editor Iron T-adasman, Atlanta, Ga.; John Lee Coulter, dean of the cQ1lege. of agriculture, Univers- ity Of west Virginia. Morgan5own; M. V. Richards, industrial and agricul- tural comm ssioner, Southern railway Washington.
 Naturally the next question is how to get an adequate supply of skilled ldUOl IOI ',llt luuuStl teS, WlllCll uc- mands cooperation between the schools and the industries. Leading in the solution of this question there fore is another composite group: J. E. E2gerton, pres dent Tennessee !Manu- facturers association, Lebanon, Tenn: Joseph s. Stewart. professor of sec cndary education, Athens. Ga; L. c. Hassinger, manufacturer, Konnarock, Va.; R. w. Selvidge, George Peabody college, Nashville, Tennessee: w. M. Riggs. president Clemson college, S.. G.; Julian s. Burruss, president State Normal school. Harrisonburg, Va; F. N. Bradley, president College of Incus- trial Arts, Denton, Texas: c. B. Glenn, assistant superintendent of schools, Birmingham. Alabama.
 The councl will begin with the con ference luncheon at which the associa- ton of commerce will set forth 'the strategic position of New Orleans in the future development of all the Americas. Later. a tour will be made to study the docks. elevators. termi- nal facilities. and the general com mercial advantages and possibil ties of the city. The council will also make spscial study of the Nichols Industrial school in operation at which graphic presentation of how New Orleans is working out the prob | lem of industr al education will be given under the direction of the Hon
 Joseph M. Gwinn, superintendent of the city schools.
 Meeting in New Orleans at the same time are the Southern Agricultural association, the conference of South ern women, together with conferences l of library and school workers, all joining n mass meetings to determ- inc what all groups shall undertake ! in common.
 At tho evening sessions some of the greatest leaders of the nation will speak on the Lessons Of the World War; J. H. Phillips, of Alabama President Frank J. Goodnow of Johns Hopkins university; J. L. McBr en l United States bu: eau of education, and others, It is expected that a grour of governors will speak another even ing upon the task for the united Southern effort in immediate future that we may have an administration
 based on efficiency, political ideals