The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15
Series of Sectional Confer
ences Tuesday to Be a Fea-
ture of the Two-Day
Convention
PRINCIPAL MEETINGS
TO BE AT JEFFERSON
THEATRE IN EVENINGS
Lieut.. Perigord and Secre'
tary of Agriculture Hous-
ton Will Be the Prin-
cipal Speakers

| The state council of defense an
lnounces the complete programme for
the war conference to be held in Biz
mingham March IS and 10. The full
programme follows:
| Monday, 8 p. m.-Address by Arthur
E. Bestor, director speaking division,
committee on public information.
| D. m.-Address by DIR. James A. F..
Scherer. member council of national
defense and of the United States ship
ping board.
s p. m.-Address by Secretary OF
Agriculture David Franklin Houston.
n. m.-Address by Lieut.. Paul Per
iecrd of the French army, who wears
Croix de Guerre. conferred by Marshal
Joffre
Tuesday, $50 a. m.-series of sec
tional conferences at the Southern
club, Food Administrator Richard M.
Hobbie presiding. All county and pre-
cinct chairmen invited.
Hotel Tutwiler: Red Cross, Emmett
w. White, New Orleans, director civil
ian relief, presiding; all chapter chair
men and Red Cross workers invited.
Hotel Tutwiler: County chairmen
council of defense, women's commit
tee. Mrs. J. F. Hooper. presiding.
Hotel Hillman: state farm extension
work and state agricultural depart
ment, Dr. ]. F. Duggar presiding.
Chamber of Commerce: National war
savings committee, Crawford John
son, state director, presiding.
Chamber of Commerce.: Chairmen
county councils defense. Hon.
Ray Rushton and L. M. Hooper presid-
ing.
Hotel Hillman: Conference on civil
ian responsibility as to communicable
diseases. DIR. S. G. WEIGH. state health
officer, presiding.
w S. Stallings. director, presid-
ing.
Civic association: Birmingham zone
liberty loan executive committee, F.
M. Jackson, chairman, presiding
Southern club: Publicity conference
of newspaper editors of Alabama, W.
I. sheehan, editor Montgomery Adver-
tiser, and chairman publicity commit
tee. presiding.
HOOPER's ACTIVITY
Chairman K M Hooper has devoted
terest in the conference and reports that
gratifying and enthusiastic reports have
been received from all sections of the
state indicating the attendance of rep
rcsentatives of the different divisions
OF war work, of at least 500. Several
communications have been addressed to
county directors and charmen by those
in charge of the respective lines of work
in the state, and in addition to this
a inv faf tAac 1a1y
to them by the state council of de-
Tense. Those who will preside over the
10 group conferences have shown
great interest in the conferences
and have prepared attractive pro-
grammes which will make the Tuesday
morning sectional conferences replete
with valuable information and instruc-
tons as to work of the various divis-
ions.
The council of national defense has
requested the chairman of the Alabama
state council of defense Immediately fol-
lowing the war conference In Birming-
ham, to call a meeting in the governors
office at the capitol of the chairmen and
directors of the various units Of the
work in the state, that in our future war
activities there will be uniformity OF
action and duplication of efforts will be
avoided. The meeting will be held for
PoSC
possess no authority or power to make
decisions. but will be round-table dis
cussion of the various forms of war ac-
tivities.
AT JEFFERSON THEATRE
The war conference will hold its first
meeting Monday afternoon at o'clock,
at the jefferson theatre. at which Gov
ernor Henderson will preside and intro
duce the speakers. The governor wilt
also preside at the evening conference.
which will be held at 5 o'clock at the
same place.
The first address Of the afternoon will
be made by Arthur E. Bestor. director
Of the speaking division of the commit
tee on public information. DR.. Bestor
is President of the Chautauqua institu
ton. Chautauqua, N. Y, and was APP
pointed by President Wilson to organize
and direct the speaking division Of the
committee on public information.
The second speaker of the afternoon
will be pi. James A. B. Scherer. Ph.D. |
and Ii. D. DR. Scherer was professor
Of English In the Japanese government
school for a number of years and re-
turned to the United States on account
II his health He is the author Of three
hooks on Japan and is also the author
Of the widely read book, published in
1915 Cotton as a World Power" In
1911 he was lecturer on the Carton foun- |
dalton at the Oxford and Cambridge
having, just preceding this
been president Of Throop Institute of
Technology. California.
SECRETARY HOUSTON
The second meeting OF the confer
ence will be held at o'clock Mon
day evening at the Jefferson theatre |
ARD seats will be reserved for those |
representatives attending the confer |
ence who will make request for tick |
cts at room A, mezzanine floor, Hotel |
Tutwiler which will be the headquar-
tars of the state council Of defense |
during the war conference.
The first speaker of the evening |
will be David Franklin Houston, Sec |
rotary of Agriculture in the cabinet of |
President Wilson. Secretary Houston |
has organized the department OF ag-
riculture into one of the valuable de- |
partments OF the government for the |
successful prosecution of the war.
the increased activity OF his |
many thousands of farm |
ers throughout the country have been |
shown how to increase their produc- |
ing power and place their farms on O
business basis. Secretary Houston says:
II cannot emphasize too strongly the |
urgent necessity Of doing everything |
possible to bring about still further |
Increase in the production of all es- /
scntial commodities, particularly of the /
staple crops and live stock"
LIEUT.. PERIGORD'S SPEECH
Perhaps the most interesting and