Evening star., 1917-05-23
COTTON MANUFACTURERS
GREETED BY PRESIDENT
Convention Closed With Election Of
0mcers-Aid Of Members
Pledged to q. 8.

A reception by the President Of the
United States this afternoon and the
election of officers and addresses by
Prof. F. w. Taussig, chairman of the
tariff commission. and by E. A. Groff,
manager of the foreign trade depart
ment of the National City Bank of
New York, were the features of the
concluding session of the twenty-hrst
annual convention of the American Cot
ton Manufacturers Association today.
Fuller E. Galloway Of Georgia was
chosen president; Arthur ]. Draper of
North Carolina was elected vice pfesi-
dent. and w. d. Adams of North Caro-
lima secretary treasurer. j. D. Hammett
man of the board of directors. new
members Of which are Emslie Nichol-
son, South Carolina: c. E. Hutchinson,
North Carolina, and A. W. Mcclellan,
Louisiana.
Efficiency In productive operations
rather than government aid Is the
! fundamental basis for the development
of a fiourishing export trade. Prof.
| Taussig told the convention. Face the
music" was the phrase he used In
business toward the proposed new
taxes.
Sees Was as Business Aid.
Mr.. Croft prophesied a minimum In
terruption by war, and, ultimately, a
considerable expansion OF ordinary
American business. Foreign branches
of American banks are the best in
strumentality to provide the essential
banking facilities of this coming ex-
pansion. Government aid, he said, will
Undoubtedly give every possible en-
couragement to enlarging export trade.
Former Premier Balfour, r. M, Miller.
a former president. and C. B. Bryant of
Charlotte, N. c., who has served as Sec
retary-treas surer continuously for sew
enteen years. were made honorary
members.
That item of the Keating child-la
| bill which prohibits full-time labor by
children between fourteen and sixteen
years of age was characterized as a
hardship on thousands of southern mill
working families in a resolution adopt
ed, which urged the President and Con-
gress to suspend this proviso for the
period of the war, during which time
| a full production was stated to be vital
to the country.
Another resolution passed rendered
the unreseryed services of the associa-
| ticn to the President for the period Of
| the war.
| President Galloway. on taking office.
delivered a speech that kept the con-
| vention members divided between a de-
| sire to laugh, so witty was the talk.
\ and a desire to take notes. SO valuable
were the suggestions contained therein
Mr.. Balfour Makes Address.
The manufacturers were addressed yes
| terday afternoon by Foreign Secretary
Balfour. head Of the British war mission
who told them that adhesion Of the United
States to the allied cause made it abso-
lutely certain that the military autocracy
| would not be able to cast all nations OF
the earth in the same mold. Mr.. Balfour
| was introduced by Secretary Daniels.
| The association was meeting jointly
| with the National Association Of Cottor
Manufacturers which recently completed
| its convention in Boston. The gathering
| was under the auspices of the National
Council of American Cotton Manufactur-
ers and was for the purpose Of appoint
| ing a special joint committee to deal with
the government through the council Of
national defense. 1t is composed of the
following: Bristow Draper. Hopedale.
! Mass, chairman; Ronald Lyman, Bos-
ton; John A. Law. Spartanburg. S. C. /;
Fuller E. Galloway, La Grange. Ga stu
art w. Cramer. Charlotte, N. c.; Albert
F'arweii Bernis, Boston, and Edwin F.
Green, Boston
The unanimous adoption of the report
of the committee on legislation, which
earnestly urges the general proposition