The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-26
THE EIGHTH AN-
 NUAL CONVENTION
Southern Commercial Congress Will Meet in Norfolk, Va, De-
 cember 11-14-PrOminent Cit izens Will Deliver Addresses.

Washington, D. C., August 26.- The eighth annual convention of the Southern Commercial Congress will be held in Norfolk, Virginia, Decem Der ll-l4. The theme will be "The Changed Outlook" resulting from the European war. Economic, agricul- tural, military, governmental, fnan- cial and commercial subjects will be discussed in the interpretation of the relation of the United States to inter- national reconstruction. Representa- tive business and professional leaders, economists and statesmen from this country and abroad will be brought to the platform.
 With the close of the European war acute problems will confront the United States. A basic purpose of the Norfolk Congress will be to evolve a plan of action with which to meet the new order and the changed condi- tions.
 Various national and international entities will be called to meet in Nor folk, coincident with the Eighth Con- gress, including the Fourth Annual Convention of the Womans Auxiliary of the Southern Commercial Congress, the second annual meeting of the House of Southern Governors, the American Commission on Agricul- tural Organization, the National As sociation of Commissioners of Agri- culture, and the Southern Commercial Secretaries Association.
 The port of Norfolk, including Old Point, Portsmouth and Newport News will be interpreted as a type of the commercial possibilities of Atlantic harbors in the extension of American trade The municipal docks of Nor folk, and the piers to be constructed ! by the Norfolk X Western Railway Company at a cost of $2,000,000, will be an important exhibit of the Con- gress. The exports alone through the port of Norfolk in the past year have quintuped. increasing from $25,000,- GOO to S125,OO0,0OO.
 Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, has accepted an invitation to deliver one of the principal addresses l before the congress, and has ordered the mobilization of the Atlantic fleet ! in Hampton Roads to participate in a great naval review, to be followed by ' a military parade in Norfolk to be participated in by officers and me from the battleships The presence O. 1 the fleet in Norfolk harbor for official participation will add unique features social and governmental, that will make the congress a brilliant event. i Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, who will preside over the sessions of the congress, will present his report as the representative of the congress on the International High Commission Senator Fletcher has recently return ed from Latin America where he joined actively with Secretary Me Adoo in establishing closer conner cial and financial ties with the Latin countries. The report of William A. Reid, who has just returned from a six months tour of Latin America, will also be presented.
 The congress has not only been active in building up commercial rela- tions with countries of the Western Hemisphere, but has established defi- mite ties with the Orient. Hon. David s. Rose, former mayor of Milwaukee, has spent the past six months in China. and will deliver an address in Norfolk interpreting the opportuni- ties of the South and the nation in the building up of reciprocal trade rela tions with the republic of China. The Southern Commercial Congress has inspired two important commissions that nave visited the Orient during the past year