Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-18
GREAT ARRAY OF
N0TABLES FOR
PEACE MEETING


ATLANTA, Feb. 18.-The most i'm
posing list of speakers that have ever
addressed q single conference in the
South will be presented 10y the South
ern Congress of the League of Nations,
which is to be held in Atlanta on Feb
ruary % and March l. Headed by ex-
President William Howard Taft, the
president of the League to Enforce
Peace, the speakers program will in
clude diplomats, statesmen, leaC ers in
religion, labor, rural life and woman's
work
There will be three sessions each
day at the auditorium armory, each
session being open to the public as
well as to the four thousand delegates
which are expected TO be present from
eight Southern states. East session
will be devoted to some special phase
of the league of nations problem as it
affects the various classes of the pop
ulation
The end and aim of the congress
which is entirely on-political and pa
triotic in it's motives. are to fully
arouse the people of America to the
vital necessity for a league of ma
tons, and to get them actively inter-
ested in the draft that is being drawn
up under President Wilson's leader
ship in Paris, SO that it may be prop
erly ratified by the senate of the Unit
ed States at the proper time.
The Friday session, which will be
called to order at 10 o'clock by Samuel
G. Dobbs, president of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce, will be opened
by Clark Howell. of Atlanta, the re-
gional chairman of the congress, who
will deliver the assembly into the
hands of former President Taft, who
will deliver the fir.t address. Mr..
Taft will be followed by Edward A. Fl
lene, of the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States, and by President
A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard Uni
versity.
The afternoon session, dealing with
American interests and the League OF
Nations, will be addressed by DR..
George Grafton Wilson, professor of
International law, Harvard University;
Robert F. Maddox, president American
Bankers association; Dean E. C. Bran
son, professor of rural economics and
sociology. University of North Caro-
lima, and Henry Morgenthau, formerly
ambassador to Turkey.
The evening session on American
Ideals and the League of Nations, will
be addressed by James w. Gerard
formerly ambassador to Germany; DR..
Anna Howard Shaw, honorary presi-
dent, National American Woman Suf-
trage association; DR.. Frank Crane,
editorial writer of the Associated
Newspapers, and Henry Van Dyke,
formerly minister to the Netherlands.
The Saturday morning session on
religion, social progress and the
League of Nations, will be addressed
by Ri Rev Benjamin J. Kelley, Ro-
man Catholic Bishop of Savannah;
Bishop w. A. Gambler, bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal church South;
Or. Charles E. Brown, dean, school of
Religion, Yale University.
The afternoon session on response
hiljty of the American democracy for
establishing a League of Nations, will
he addressed by Henry van Dyke and
Edward A. Filene.
The evening session on labors de-
mand for a League of Nations, will be
addressed by Frank P. Walsh, former
ly joint chairman War Labor board;
Jerome Jones, organizer A. F. of l..
and editor Journal of Labor, and Will
liam Howard Taft