Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-05
REIMBURSEMENT
CONVENTION
Plans Finally Completed for Big
Gathering at Newark Next
Wednesday

NEWARK, Dec. 5-Plans have been
finally completed for the readjusi-
ment to peace conditions convention
to be held by the industrial, bank
ing. agricultural and labor interests
of the state of New Jersey on next
Wednesday. December II, at the Rob-
ert Treat hotel. here, under the aus
pices of the Manufacturers Council
Of the state of New Jersey of which
Warren c. King is the president.
The leaders OF the three great edu-
cational institutions of the state, DR..
John Grier Hibben president OF Prince
ton University; DR.. w. II. S. Dema-
rest. of Rutgers College. and DR.. Alex
ender c. Humphreys of the Stevens
Institute of Technology, a been in
vited to address the delegates to the
convention, at the dinner which will
be held in the evening.
At the opening session which Is to
convene at 10 a. m, the necessary
steps for readjustment TO a condi-
tons will be outlined by Z. F. Bartlett.
president of the New Jersey State
Bankers Association; by DIR. ]. G.. LIP
man, director Of the New Jersey Agri-
cultural Experiment Stations, repre-
scnting the agricultural interests OF
the state; Arthur A. Quinn. president
of the New Jersey State Federation of
Labor. representing labor; Curtis II.
Burnett, first vice president of the Ma
tional Association of Credit Men, ana
a member of tho Manufacturers
Council, who will discuss credit re-
~quirements. and Warren G. King,
president of the Manufacturers Coun-
! Gil, representing the purely industrial
interests Of the state.
, The convention Will adjourn for
luncheon and in the afternoon the
various interests represented will hold
separate meetings for the promulga-
ton of a program of readjustment cal
culated to meet the needs of the entire
business fabric of the community. rec
concentrations which undoubtedly will
be presented to congress and which
it is hoped will serve to lead the way
toward a national program of read
justment.
New Jersey is the first state in tho
union to call together all its business
interests in the effort to formulate
such n program and will endeavor to
prove the truth Of President Wilson's
assertion in his message to Congress
that the business men of the country
are able to lead in the readjustment
program which the nation must adopt.
1t is expected that no less than one
tnOuSanu VIII dllenu thS
convention of which agriculture. man
ufacture. labor and finance viii have
virtually equal representation. The
convention is to be by all means he
biggest thing of the kind attempted
IN the history Of New Jersey and Is
expected to attract national attention,
for the best thought of the educa sprs
of the state and or the financial, labor
agricultural and Industrial interests
Is to be directed toward providing a
solution OF the intricate problems Of
readjustment affecting New Jersey.
/ one of the greatest industrial states
in the union and thus affecting equally
the rest of the United States.
Every manufacturer In the state, all
! the members of the State Bankers
Association, representatives OF the
various oranges and of organized la
Dor have been invited, and an elab-
crate and carefully worked out pro-
gram calculated to transact the ut
most business and to achieve the larg-
est results within a single day al
| lotted TO the convention has been