The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-15

been asked to engage the interest OF
the railroad men in the conference.
Governor Joseph McCord will invite
the members of the Sixth Federal Re-
serve banking force to be present at
the conference, and Philip Aston,
state director of the Liberty Loan
workers, and Hugh Richardson, state
director of War Savings Stamps, and
their co-workers are urged to be pres
ent at the conference meeting.
The mems organizations OF Allan
ia, including the Chamber of Com
lnerce, Retail Merchants Association,
AID Mems Club, the Rotarians, Man
ufacturers Club, the Presidents Club,
have been asked to cooperate in the
arrangement of the local committee
to make the war conference sue
cess. All the women's organizations
of Atlanta have been asked through
the Fulton county unit. Woman's
Committee Council of National De-
Tense. to cooperate and every ar
rangement is being made to make
Atlanta's first war conference wor-
thy occasion.
The Program
The program OF the war conference
has been so designed that on the first
day, March 10Th, the State Council
of Defense and the County Councils
can hear the message the u. S. Gov
eminent sends out through the ablest
men of the nation now giving their
service in many directions.
At the afternoon session the 10Th,
Dr. J. A. B. Shearer, who has aided in
the organization of all State Councils
of Defense, will tell what is being
done by Councils in all sections Mr..
Porter will clearly set forth the work
which the government has planned
state Councils can do to best aid the
interest of the government in the war
program.
In the evening the French officer
will describe the conditions as they
now exist in the war zone, and our
relation thereto, while in the address
of the Secretary of Agriculture will
be crystallized the general message
of the nation in the present crisis.
No man of the nation, and certainly
no one in the Administration body, is
better qualified to bring this message
than David Houston. Aside from his
scholarship. his broad knowledge of
, every phase OF national life, and his
git as a thinker and speaker, he has
Tor i've years sat in the inner tmeple
Of the government in the most irving
period Of American history He has
Tor i've years been the daily advisor
with Woodrow Wilson in the most
Droblenatical affairs of politics. state
nd diplomacy and he represents at
" times and most eloquently the
highest type of American citizenship.
The Georgia Conference
On March 10th, the two sessions,
morning and afternoon, will be given
over to the discussion of Georgia's
var plans to be pushed through the
state and county councils of Defense.
and plans will be formulated through
which hereafter the governments
message pertaining to war work can
be directly transmitted to the people
Of the state through the county Coun-
ellis.
These Councils will have definitely
put before them at the forthcoming
conference their functions and duties.
Then the educational program for
higher and more active patriotism in
Georgia will begin in earnest and
Georgia, as the Empire State of the
South, will find the place that must
be hers in the history which will tell
this country's part of victory in the
great world war.